It wasn't so long ago that 22-year-old Anne Hathaway was living out a teenage actress's dream career with a string of movies (The Princess Diaries [2001], The Princess Diaries 2, and Ella Enchanted) that had the bejeweled young star prancing around in castles, having high tea with Julie Andrews, and kissing posh princes. But the leading lady of fairy-tale romance was bound to eventually ache for a return to the real world. This month she forays into the decidedly unfancy landscape of director Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain, a rugged cowboy drama co-starring Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal, and she is currently gearing up for her role in the big-screen adaptation of the best-selling roman a clef "The Devil Wears Prada", in which she's slated to star opposite the legendary Meryl Streep. Hathaway will also make an appearance in A Moment in the World, a documentary organized by her interviewer Angelina Jolie that placed roughly 25 participants in various locations on a specific day (Hathaway was in Cambodia), each instructed to videotape their surroundings at the same specific moment in time.
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