Article: Liv for the Moment; Tyler Becomes the Summer's Hot New Face

Liv Tyler is ready with a preemptive strike. "I have a pistol, you know," the ingenue warns playfully as she aims a menacing index finger and thumb at her interviewer.

Disarming moves like this are part of what has made the 19-year-old actor the only human on this summer's movie screens worth getting excited about. Tyler is currently starring in two art house hits. "Stealing Beauty," Bernardo Bertolucci's luscious, masterly film about a young American woman who travels to Tuscany for the summer, opened in June to mostly enthusiastic reviews. "Heavy" won special jury recognition for first-time writer-director James Mangold at the Sundance Film Festival; that film, which has been ...

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