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Legally Reese!

she may have given up acting for a couple of years to have daughter ava elizabeth with husband ryan phillippe, but don't look for 25-year-old reese witherspoon to bow out of showbiz soon, says chris schlegel witherspoon returns to the screen with a sunny vengeance in legally blonde, an update of clueless featuring reese as elle woods, a quintessential california girl who heads to harvard law to win back the man she loves.the part called for more than 40 hairstyles and 60 wardrobe changes, but for an actress who likens her work to 'anthropology,' no bit of authenticity goes unrewarded. in legally blonde, everyone assumes elle's a ditz because of her hair colour. have you ever been the victim of blonde prejudice? blonde prejudice, no. but i have had to deal with stereotypes of being southern. people hear a southern accent, and automatically figure you have seven children and are barefoot, living on a farm, married to your cousin. was it hard playing a character who was so irrepressibly cheery? it was definitely a challenge to be perky all the time, especially when you have a 5 am call and you've been up all night with the baby. did you have to work on walking in those massively high shoes she wears? i actually have a huge podiatrist bill from this movie. i mean, i'm 25 and i had to go to the podiatrist and have things cracked and shaved off my feet. other than the shoes, could you at all identify with her? i don't have the kind of self-image that i'm the type of girl that everyone wants to be friends with. i've always been the kind of person _even when i was a little girl _ who was very independent, always in my room playing by myself. i see myself as very private and very quiet. so, elle was definitely a stretch. you had a pretty good career roll going, and then you got pregnant. did you worry about what taking time off might mean? i've always been very serious about what i do. i know what i want out of life, and i try to focus on those things. i've worked hard at taking roles that were very unique. so, no, i didn't worry, because i'm in this for the long haul, and i think i've done a pretty good job at establishing myself. how's ryan coping? he's a great dad, but i always knew he would be. he's just such a nice, kind person and really giving. he's not into himself. there was no doubt in my mind that he would be a wonderful father. what does ryan think about seeing you on the movie's billboards? i don't think he recognises it's me. it's such a departure. with that hair, i think i could be standing underneath one of those advertisements and go completely unrecognised. in that sense, it's perfect. bad bathroom behaviour david duchovny and shaquille o'neal have been nailed by american comedian garry shandling _ for their bad bathroom decorum. shandling has shared urinal facilities with both stars, and admits his toilet experiences with them have been far from pleasurable. he explains, "duchovny was waiting behind me at the urinal with his pants already down - a big non-no, even in hollywood. and at staples center, 7-foot-1 o'neal was next to me at the urinal and missed everything. but he's very strong in close." seann's sex education actor seann william scott had the worst case of sex education _ when he heard his parents making love upstairs. the actor remembers the day vividly and hopes he never comes across any further evidence that his parents still have a sexually active life. he says, "if i saw my dad even look at porno it'd be over with our relationship. i remember one time my mom and dad were hanging out and they were like, 'why don't you go over to matt's house and play basketball?' i was like, 'i just played an hour ago'. they said i should go back and play again. so i went downstairs and turned on the tv to watch price is right and i heard the bed bang and everything. i ran out of the house like forest gump." a family affair! director guy ritchie's film partner matthew vaughn is fuming because guy cast wife madonna as the lead in their next film _ instead of penelope cruz. vaughn, guy's best friend, was convinced stunning penelope would be perfect for their low-budget film set on a mediterranean island, in which madonna will play a wealthy woman who falls for a penniless sailor. a friend says, "matthew and guy disagree all the time over casting, but this one has particularly got to matthew because he feels guy may have let his heart rule his head."