Deep in the heart of Texas, a galaxy's
worth of stars are taking up residence. Join this one for a
tour of the capital city hot spots.
Deep in the heart of Texas, a galaxy's worth of stars are taking up
residence. Join this one for a tour of the capital city hot
spots.
Madeleine Stowe has a fantasy about her newly acquired fiddle: "To
go into one of the clubs in
Austin and play backup," she says.
"Wouldn't that be something, to walk into the Broken Spoke and play
with Don Walser? I would love to have the ability to just riff.
That would be the greatest." Don't count her out. The half-Costa
Rican actress from
Los Angeles already presides over her own
working Texas cattle ranch between Austin and Fredericksburg, where
she lives with her husband, Brian Benben, an upstate-New York-bred
actor, and their 4-year-old daughter May. Conquering the fiddle is
just another goal for this actress who handles Texas steers while
starring in Hollywood films. Stowe attended
UCLA to study
journalism, but switched to acting after working as a volunteer in
a
Beverly Hills theater. First, she tried made-for-TV movies, then
major motion pictures. She broke out of the pack in Stakeout,
burning up the screen as a sexy temptress observed from afar by
detective
Richard Dreyfuss. She also starred with
Jack Nicholson in
The Two Jakes, with
Kevin Costner in Revenge, with Daniel Day-Lewis
in The Last of the Mohicans, with
Brad Pitt in 12 Monkeys, and with
John Travolta in The General's Daughter. This month, she stars with
Gary Sinise in Imposter, a futuristic film about a war between two
planets. But she remains firmly planted deep in the heart of Texas.
Here's a weekend in and around Austin with Madeleine Stowe.
FRIDAY
LODING