This scan is from the special summer double issue of Entertainment Weekly (June 29 / July 8, 2001; #602/603).

"The It List: Some things are destined to return: The Mummy. The Jedi. And gary Coleman. And our annual gude to who's cutting edge. Not just a celebration of pop culture's best and brightest, this issue introduces a rising class of entertainers, all finding inventive ways to thrill us. Here are the behind-the-scenes masters (novelists and screenwriters, musicians and sinders, a composer, a stuntman, a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, and a puppet) and the muses who inspire them (the tantalizing likes of Estella Warren and Josh Harnett, Benjamin Bratt and Erika Christensen, Aaliyah and Elijah Wood, and cover couple Toney Maguire and Kristen Dunst). Not everyone on this year's list is destined for pop immortality, but each has already helped push the boundaries of entertainment."

(page 72)

"IT BALL-BUSTER
Kathryn Erbe

AGE 34

WHY HER?
The petite actress made a big impression as psycho death-row inmate Shirley Bellinger on HBO's Oz. This fall, she'll play bad cop to Vincent D'Onofrio's good cop on the NBC spin-off Law & Order: Criminal Intent. True to form, she makes her partner ride shotgun.

WORST PART OF PLAYING A COP
'Cuffing is always anxiety-provoking. The logistics make me nervous.'

CAREER SHE'D MOST LIKE TO HAVE
'Those people on Friends have made it. It's a good schedule for a working mom.' (Erbe has a 5-year-old daughter with husband and Oz costar Terry Kinney.)

CLOSEST BRUSH WITH CAREER IMMOLATION
Appearing as a teacher in 1994's D2: The Mighty Ducks. 'I tend not to talk about that, unless the person I'm talking to is under four feet.'

NEXT
Playing an undercover detective with What about Bob? costar Bill Murray in the indie comedy Speaking of Sex."

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