1521.   Tomb Raider Chronicles - ANGELINA JOLIE BRANDS LARA ROLE MODEL

Academy Award winner Angelina Jolie is proud of playing high-flying action hero Lara Croft on screen and believes the character is a role model grounded in reality. Jolie reprises the role in Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life opening in the United States on Friday, playing a cultured, yet spectacularly athletic and attractive British adventurer. The Oscar winner in 2000 as Best Supporting Actress for Girl, Interrupted said Lady Croft does not have to be anti-man to be a strong woman. She’s very sexual and she’s very sensual but she doesn’t use it to win, Jolie told Reuters in a recent interview. She’s strong enough. And I think she’s very complete as a woman because she’s a lady and she’s intelligent but she’s also able to get dirty and wild. I think she’s got a nice combination of most of the women I know.

Last Updated: Jul 22, 2003  

1522.   Tomb Raider Chronicles - GOLDEN HANDSHAKE FOR EIDOS DIRECTOR

The Sheffield man who launched Tomb Raider cyberbabe Lara Croft's high-flying career is poised for a multi-million pound double take. Jeremy Heath-Smith is leaving computer games group Eidos with a 'golden goodbye' and has sold his mansion on Ringinglow Road, less than a month after it was put on the market at a record asking price of £3.5 million.

Last Updated: Jul 22, 2003  

1523.   Tomb Raider Chronicles - ACTION TIME FOR LARA CROFT IN TR SEQUEL

Of all the challenges Angelina Jolie faced making the new Lara Croft action movie, the toughest was one she couldn't see. In Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life, opening Friday, the video-game archeologist with the killer body battles ruthless villains to find the mythological Pandora's box. If opened, it could destroy the world.

Last Updated: Jul 21, 2003  

1524.   Tomb Raider Chronicles - GERARD BUTLERS TALKS TOMB RAIDER II

Gerard Butler is trying hard not to smoke. It's been minutes since the Scottish-born actor's last cigarette, and he's determined to forego another for a little while longer. As he paces around the room, he spies a cup of coffee, which seems to stoke his nicotine urge. ''To hell with it,'' he says, lighting a Marlboro and swigging his coffee. ''Restraint was only going to last for so long.''

Last Updated: Jul 21, 2003  

1525.   Tomb Raider Chronicles - ANGELINA SAYS U.N WORK IS REWARDING

Angelina Jolie says being a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations has changed her life. I used to lay there at night and wonder what it was that I needed to do, she tells Cosmopolitan magazine in its August issue. That's how I stumbled on going to Washington and learning about the U.N. and traveling around the world. It completely changed me.

Last Updated: Jul 17, 2003