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"Best Actress" presents a chronology of billings for all of Julia Roberts' movies up until 2001, the year that the piece was made. The piece charts the rise of Roberts' celebrity as she literally goes from the bottom to the top. The order in which the actors' names appear before the title of the movie always reflects a determined hierarchy which is contractually stipulated. Usually, when a movie stars an actor and an actress of equal stature, the actor's name will go first. Julia Roberts occupies a singular position in Hollywood: she is paid nearly as much money for a movie as a top actor, and she often gets top billing -- but alas, not always . . . Jonathan Horowitz |