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Article: Flying high: it's a bird! It's a plane! No, it's Kate Bosworth, who shoots for superstardom this summer as Lois Lane in superman returns. But can the ingenue next door handle the hype?(Profile)(Biography)
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LIKE MANY HOLLYWOOD STARS WHOSE RISES TO THE TOP HAVE BEEN REDUCED by the media to a few short anecdotes, Kate Bosworth has nuggets of lore that follow her everywhere she goes. First, there is the physical oddity: She has heterochromia iridium, meaning that her eyes are two different colors--one hazel, one blue. Then there are her Schwab's Pharmacy-tinged beginnings. A horse lover at 13, she scored the role of Scarlett Johansson's best friend in Robert Redford's The Horse Whisperer (the character is killed, naturally, in the film's first scene) after she brought a family Christmas card featuring her photo as her head shot to the audition. Then came her Flashdance moment ...