Don't confuse Alfonso Cuarón's smart and sexy new road movie, Y Tu Mamá También, with a dopey Hollywood teen film packed with horny boys and half-naked girls . . . not that it doesn't have plenty of those, too.

If you think you know Jennifer Connelly, think again. In A Beautiful Mind, the former teen heartthrob emerges as a mature, A-list actress. And at home in New York, she's a very un-Hollywood kind of star -- with a natural, untouched glamour all her own.

The buzz is good, the cast is stellar, and the legendary director of Nashville and The Player is back in business with a new film, Gosford Park. Dare Robert Altman contemplate a hit? "Be still my heart," he murmurs.

You say your idea of fun involves lying in the sun sipping caipirinhas? No contest. But a goal can raise your downtime to a higher level. Our writer takes on four island paradises, each offering a challenge, from windsurfing to sous-chefing. Who says self-improvement and hedonism don't mix?

After grilling half the reporters in town, Oliver Platt thinks he's ready to play a journalist on TV. So who's asking the questions here, anyway?

Before Cameron Crowe was a Hollywood (writer-director of Jerry Maguire, etc.) potentate, he was a rock-journalist prodigy. And his new film Almost Famous proves he's one of those rare people who experienced the seventies who can actually remember them.

Being a celebrity gorilla isn't easy. But with the help of a posh new African-style habitat, a new flame, and his family, the Bronx Zoo's Timmy is getting his life together.