Dreams of Geena

Where style meets substance

Her swollen ups and dark, come-hither eyes have been promising the existence of worlds more exotic than ours since her modeling days, so perhaps it's fitting that Geena Davis keeps landing roles in films of a supernatural bent. In Transylvania 6-5000, she played a vampiress; The Fly cast her as the girlfriend of an insect (played by husband Jeff Goldblum); and in Beetlejuice, she was a ghost. To top it off, this spring she'll star in Earth Girls Are Easy, a comedy about a Hollywood manicurist who falls in love with a hirsute alien (Goldblum again). In the meantime, though, Davis can be seen opposite William Hurt in The Accidental Tourist, the much-anticipated film based on the novel by Anne Tyler and set in the world as we know it. "Believe it or not," says Davis, "there are no special effects whatsoever." None, that is, except her own.

JIM RASENBERGER