(Why not an actual garden? Who knows? All too poetically, artifice trumped the real thing here.) The wedding itself was to be a literal Hollywood production, on a soundstage at 20th Century Fox done up to look like a garden. They made sense the way Steve McQueen and Ali MacGraw did, she the yin to his yang. Julia was tall, Kiefer less so she smiled, he grimaced her image was sunshine and apple pie, his danger and despair. They presaged Gwyneth & Brad, Reese & Ryan, Ethan & Uma. Julia and Kiefer were the first Gen-X Hollywood power couple, bigger than even Johnny & Winona. So here we go back to 1991: Julia Roberts, 23, had become a supernova playing, per Hollywood cliché, a hooker with a heart of gold in “Pretty Woman,” eclipsing her actor brother Eric, and was newly engaged to 24-year-old Kiefer Sutherland. It was all so incredible, so juicy, so potentially career ending that all three went 30 years without ever really speaking of it.īut since two of the three brought it up on - where else? - a podcast, let’s revisit a time when Hollywood still made movie stars, when movie releases were events, when we craved glamour and gossip without apology. It was a love triangle involving newly minted megastar Julia, her famous fiancé, and his best friend. “Miss Roberts Regrets” was the headline in People magazine - this in the heady days of the early ’90s, the first real Hollywood scandal of the decade.
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