JULIANNE MOORE
AGE 43
MUSTWORTHINESS She's the best, and we swear we liked her
before almost everybody else did -- like in ''The Hand That Rocks the
Cradle'' or in that one scene in ''The Fugitive.'' And we can't wait to
see her carry her first thriller, September's ''The Forgotten,''
where she'll play a grieving mother out to prove that she's not
crazy -- i.e., that she really had a son who died.
CAREER HIGH
''I've had several directors write things for me,'' she says,
citing ''Far From Heaven'' and ''Boogie Nights.'' ''That's the ultimate
compliment.''
CAREER LOW '''Assassins' was not one of my favorite
moments.'' And ''Tales From the Darkside: The Movie'': ''I was excited
to get it just because it was my first movie, but it was a money
movie, so it wasn't exactly a shining moment for anybody
involved.''
ON HER MUST LIST ''Yikes, this is hard. Let me give it
some thought. I'll call you tomorrow at 4 o'clock.''
THE NEXT DAY,
4 O'CLOCK ''Emma Thompson, Naomi Watts, Samantha Morton, Kathy
Bates, Daniel Day-Lewis, Sean Penn, Tom Waits, Loretta Lynn,
Willie Nelson, Van Morrison.'' And Belgian architect Vincent Van
Duysen.
NEXT ''The Prizewinner of Defiance, Ohio,'' as a poor woman
who raises 10 kids by winning contests.
DOMINIC WEST
AGE 34
MUSTWORTHINESS Moore handpicked the ''Mona Lisa Smile'' Brit
to be her leading man in ''The Forgotten.'' That's reason enough. But
he's also pretty great on HBO's ''The Wire.''
JULIANNE, WHY'D YOU
CHOOSE DOMINIC? ''Because he's-a damn good-lookin'.''
DOMINIC,
WHAT'D YOU THINK OF JULIANNE? ''It took me about a week to realize
I had to ask her to stop talking to me, because she'd be
discussing the price of cheese or making a joke and they'd say
Action! and she'd writhe around on the floor in floods of tears
and gut-wrenching grief. And I realized I can't do that -- that's
why I moped around for quite a long time thinking about dead
babies.''
ON HIS MUST LIST Paul Bettany, Jake Gyllenhaal, and
''Donnie Darko'': ''I love that film.''
CAREER LOW ''Spice World.'' ''I did
it only to meet the Spice Girls, because it was a funny thing to
do.''
NEXT Shooting ''The Wire.''
