“Dad always did know horses,” Silverstone says.
Monty is her father, and he was always taking her along on research outings, afternoons at the races where he led her, horse by horse, through the betting form, teaching her how to spot the sure thing. When she was in grade school, a book came out: Monty’s Betting Tips. 'Silence of the Lambs': The Complete Buffalo Bill StoryĬhasteness, Soda Pop, and Show Tunes: The Lost Story of the Young Americans and the Choircore Movement “If this is the life of a star-let,” she says, sighing, “it’s a yawn.” Can you believe it? Alicia Silverstone, the prettiest girl in town, the next big thing, the star of nine movies in the past two years (including The Crush, in which she played a young woman who kisses and then tries to kill an older man, a movie that fixed her in the minds of many as a lustful, murderous, wildcat teen), an actress who with her appearance in Aerosmith’s recent videos helped revive the band, the star of three upcoming films ( The Babysitter, True Crime and Le Nouveau Monde) and the summer smash Clueless, and she’s stranded on a hill – a knocked-out, dreamy-eyed little Rapunzel waiting for some spectacle grand enough to allow her to let her hair down. Meanwhile she tries to balance the inaudible pangs of adolescence (Let’s get crazy) with the audible pangs of agents (You can’t get crazy, you have a photo shoot) and saves her good looks and enthusiasm for a party that has never been thrown. “What people think about me, of doing with me – it can be gross.” Along with many other celebrities, has-beens, will-be’s and wanna-be’s, Silverstone lives in the Hollywood Hills, in California, where she pads around the house in gym socks, doing nothing more exciting than her laundry. Alicia Silverstone is a kittenish 18-year-old movie star whom lots of men want to sleep with.