Flashback to 1990!

JULIA ROBERTS PROVES A NICE GIRL CAN BE A PRETTY WOMAN-AND A SUPERSTAR

- BRENDAN LEE

From People’s Sept. 17, 1990, issue: Four years ago Julia Roberts was in her hometown of Smyrna, Ga. (pop. 32,246), a peach-pit stop northwest of Atlanta. It is universally apparent that Roberts, now 22 years old, has a smile incandescent enough to light a clear runway to Hollywood. “When she enters a room, it’s like somebody just turned up the lights,” says Robert Harling, screenwriter of Steel Magnolias, for which Roberts received an Oscar nomination in only her third major performance