SANTA MONICA, Calif., April 17, 2000 -- Keanu Reeves nominated for best actor? Impossible but true! The MTV Movie Awards 2000 nominations were announced today, proving once again that the lighting-rod network for American youth culture knows what kids like, even if it only has about 10 different music videos in its rotation. Truth be told, hipper-than-thou MTV's choices for the best of last year's film crop really aren't all that much hipper than the stuffy Academy Awards and Golden Globes, exce
SANTA MONICA, Calif., Feb. 9, 2000 -- So he got to shoot on an island off Thailand for months, flying friends in for visits and soaking up an island paradise. But Leonardo DiCaprio, star of "The Beach," has one little quibble. Says Leo to the British magazine The Face, "It truly bothered me ... that [Richard, DiCaprio's character] never had any kind of sexual contact with Francoise," a stunning Frenchwoman played by Virginie Ledoyen, with whom he does a little smooching and frolicking in the su
HOLLYWOOD, May 17, 2000 -- Ain't nuclear weapons funny? Rene Russo and Tim Allen hope so. Russo and Allen have signed to star in "Big Trouble," a comedy from director Barry Sonnenfeld based on a book by newspaper columnist Dave Barry. According to The Hollywood Reporter, it's a story about a nuclear bomb hidden in a suitcase that's rigged to blow up at a Miami airport. One thing's for certain: It's gotta be funnier than Sonnenfeld's last one, "Wild Wild West." But, will it have a giant robot sp