Spring Movie Preview

A president snared in a sex scandal. A senator with foot-in-mouth disease. A duplicitous Robert Downey Jr. No, we aren't reciting the morning's headlines; we're describing some of what you'll see in theaters between now and summer. As John Travolta in Primary Colors (playing Bill Clinton, basically), Warren Beatty in Bulworth (playing an out-of-control pol), and Downey in Two Girls and a Guy (playing a two-timing lover) so vividly prove, sometimes the only difference between reality and cinema is that everybody looks bigger on screen. Of course, there's also lots of far-flung escapism, such as a big-screen version of Lost in Space, starring Matt LeBlanc; Deep Impact, with Elijah Wood and Tea Leoni facing a killer comet; and U.S. Marshals, the Harrison Ford-less sequel to the 1993 blockbuster The Fugitive. And since spring is the season of romance, there's Gwyneth Paltrow in Sliding Doors; Jennifer Aniston in The Object of My Affection; and -- in the kinky category -- cover kids Matt Dillon, Denise Richards, Neve Campbell, and Kevin Bacon expressing their own kinds of affection in Wild Things. For more of what's real and what's not -- both on screen and behind the scenes -- check out the following, EW's annual Spring Preview.