EW Daily News - October 11, 2000

Overdue Looks (Tidbit)

by Liane Bonin

CULTURE SHOCK Cook laments the lack of high minded art in L.A.

Rachael Leigh Cook explains why Hollywood lacks high culture.

Ever wonder what celebrities worry about when they're not attending movie premieres and canoodling in trendy restaurants? EW.com has the latest concerns and thoughtful quotes from Hollywood's long suffering cultural elite.

"L.A.'s a weird place. In New York, culture pursues you. You can't walk more than three feet without seeing an ad for the new Broadway play or running smack into a gallery. Here you really have to pursue it. If I want to go see a museum exhibit, I think, I gotta park, I gotta drive, it's hot, and they're only open until five. They don't make it easy to learn here. Like, the Hollywood library is nice, but I see more homeless people there than people who just want to get books. But the homeless people are reading, so I don't know if that's good or bad." -- Minnesota raised RACHAEL LEIGH COOK, who's starring in Get Carter and Texas Rangers (due next year), on Hollywood's culture free zone