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She got her first major acting role in a Domino's
Pizza commercial at the age of 14 and went on to star in her first major
motion picture "The Crush". After doing some Aerosmith music videos
and a couple of other films she starred in "Clueless" which projected
her into the superstar we now know. Silverstone's performance as a good-hearted
Beverly Hills teenager won critical and box-office kudos. She very quickly
became Hollywood's next big thing and was signed to a $10 million deal with
Columbia Pictures--big numbers for a nineteen-year-old.
She said in Star Magazine, "It sickens me how important things like
the fashion world are to some people. It can be exciting but it's also
very damaging. So many people are so shallow and robotic. I just hope
people relies that it's not important how you look on the outside it's
more important what's on the inside." A San Francisco native, Silverstone
launched her career at the age of six in a series of swimsuit snapshots
taken by her father, a real estate investor.
Those photos began a steady stream of modeling gigs--including a Domino's
TV commercial--and casting agents soon noticed her nubile charisma. After
a guest shot on ABC's The Wonder Years, Silverstone signed up for her
cinematic debut as a man-obsessed young woman in 1993's The Crush. Before
filming began, Silverstone legally became an emancipated minor in order
to evade child labor laws that would have restricted her working hours.
Hot and bothered itself, Hollywood is betting big that Alicia Silverstone
will continue to capture America's fancy. Speaking of big, Silverstone
was recently skewered in the press for packing on some post-Clueless pounds.
But no worries, it seems she fits just fine into her Batgirl costume.
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