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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

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

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

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

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