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Michael Caine is still afraid of poverty.

He says that's the reason for several wrong decisions he's made.

The British actor Michael Caine confessed that, after 48 years of working in the entertainment industry with more than 130 movies and TV shows, the fear of the poverty he suffered in his childhood still is the great psychological threat that haunts him.

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Recently, he has confessed before members of the Screen Actors Guild that the horror of returning to the poverty he suffered in his childhood has driven him to make the most uninspired decisions regarding his career. Among them he named Shark, the return and Dangerous land, directed by Steven Seagal. "I never believe I'll make new films, so I always do whatever I'm offered", he said. "If you come from a family as poor as mine, then everything around you is poor. The old cliché says, "He's a young boy, he'll buy his mother a house. I bought everyone a good house," he added.

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Interview to Reese Witherspoon

"I never try to be funny".

At 26, this natural of Tennessee is polite and not too pretentious. She's married to her first husband and is a mother. She's also the new box-office princess. She has become a rare fruit in Hollywood -a young but solid actress- by interpreting strong and excessive characters and making them look angel-like, resolved and unconscious.

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Almost 1,55 m. tall, Witherspoon is a study on dignity and firmness. Her manners are reserved and measured, her voice childishly soft and nice. If asked to, she can talk with a southern accent. Her huge, shining blue eyes -she used to be very shortsighted, but she had that corrected by laser surgery- gleam from a flawless face.

She describes the keys for success in Hollywood in a way that reminds one of Tracy Flick: perseverance, resistance and flexibility. "You must cope with a lot of rejection and keep your self-esteem unharmed -she says. You must have a great deal of determination and be fully aware of your weaknesses and virtues." She was denied roles in Cape Fear and Romeo and Juliet. She also tries to protect her talent by refusing to work for trivial movies such as Scream and Urban Legend. Every time she must decide whether to accept a role she reminds herself of the fact that the film's ideas and her image will be recorded forever. "It will be on video or DVD for the rest of my life, and my daughter's life. It's not a decision I can make without thinking."

At the set she argues about some directions. "It's hard forcing Reese to do something", says Sexual Games' director, Roger Kumble. In Legally Blonde she thought some words were too rude. "She was rather subborn -says producer Marc Platt-. In the end, it turned up she was right."

Witherspoon, raised in Nashville in a privileged family, is the second daughter of a surgeon and a nurse professor. She says her parents supported her wish to become an actress since she was very young. "Being an eccentric southerner had a very strong influence", she remarks.

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Regarding masculine attention, she says: "There are many hidden motives a 14 years old can't understand. It's very hard. I won't let my daughter get in the industry before she turns 18".

She regrets having dropped her studies at Stanford after her second year to have a role in Dusk, with Paul Newman and Gene Hackman. "I don't feel as educated as I would like -she says. When I'm with very well formed people I feel awkward or inferior." She would like to come back to college when her children grow.

According to what her colleagues say, she could write a text book on how to control family and work. "She's extremely professional in the set -says Platt. And yet she has always quality time for her daughter.

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