SUBMITTED BY Timbo

September 25, 2003 — Diane Lane, star of Under the Tuscan Sun, talks to the Washington Post about her career and her approach to success.

The temptation to see actress Diane Lane as the real-life embodiment of a character she often plays -- that is, an independent, indecisive, mid-thirties mother always searching for something different in life and occasionally finding herself in a younger man's arms -- vanishes the instant you get a good look at her hairdo. It is the one great inconsistency that separates the woman from her art.

To really be any of those women, Lane, 38, would have to be a lot more frazzled in person. Her coif would have that just-finished-cleaning-the-gutters (but in an empowering way) look. That's because, and Lane half-agrees, the mop-top is becoming her signature. In fact, if she ever becomes a bona fide movie star -- and throughout her three decades in show business, there has been almost constant speculation about when she will make that great leap -- messy hair could be her version of Katharine Hepburn's pants.

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