"He was just Grandpa to me. He taught me how to float in a swimming pool. He passed when I was 17, and I don't recall ever having a conversation with him about acting. I have so many questions for him now." Actor ETHAN PECK on his late grandfather, movie legend GREGORY PECK.

CANNES, May 18, 2000 -- How much drama, how much champagne, how much fois gras (that's duck liver) can be indulged in before the big crash? Even the clouds here are too tired to roll in (there had been reports of possible rain). It is yet another sunny, beautiful day with beach bunnies sprawled across the sand. Even though there are three more days of films, fetes and fun, things are slowing down at Cannes Film Festival and some pavilions are even starting to pack up. Not that that's stopping s

SANTA MONICA, Calif., Feb. 16, 2000 -- Where were you at 5:30 a.m. PST on Tuesday? If you're an Academy Award nominee, you were hounded by media anxious to get a first-hand reaction. Michael Clarke Duncan and Haley Joel Osment had camera crews sitting with them to watch the nominations. While the 11-year-old "Sixth Sense" star, the third youngest Best Supporting Actor nominee ever, gave his gentlemanly "it's an honor to be nominated" sound bite, "The Green Mile's" Duncan, 42, whooped, hollered a