After putting her beauty to work in Hollywood, Elisabeth Shue wants to use her brain again.
Shue, who received an Oscar nomination for her portrayal of a prostitute in Leaving Las Vegas, recently graduated from Harvard University, finishing the double degree in politics and government she began 19 years ago.
"My brain was starting to dry up," said Shue, 36, in Movieline magazine. "In Hollywood, you're fortunate if you get a role where your brain is engaged, but those experiences are rare.
"I felt I needed to do something with my life. I wanted to be more connected to the world."
Shue says she would eventually like to teach and make documentaries. "I see myself at a certain age not being able to play the kind of parts that would keep me stimulated and I can't imagine my life ending professionally the moment that I've got to go to the plastic surgeon and have my face rearranged," she said.
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Clint Eastwood says it's easy for him to remain monogamous because of his deep love for his wife, Dina Ruiz.
"Everything is focused on this one person and that relationship. I still notice other gals and there is cleavage out there," Eastwood told an American TV magazine. But "by maintaining respect for the person, you maintain self-respect."
Eastwood and Ruiz, a broadcast journalist, married four years ago when she was 30. They have a young daughter. Eastwood, 70, said it has taken him a long time to mature.
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Why did Billy Zane propose to actress Leonor Varela during a play rehearsal?
"I think men like to ask women to marry them in public so it's harder for them to say no," said the Chilean-born beauty.
Zane is best known for playing the ruthless Cal Hockley in the Oscar-winning Titanic, and played Marc Antony to Varela's Cleopatra on American television. Varela, 27, who made her film debut in The Man in the Iron Mask with Leonard DiCaprio, says she would have accepted Zane's proposal under any circumstances.
- NZPA
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