PEOPLE named Paltrow one of 1999's Most Beautiful

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Shakespeare isn't the only one. Everybody's in love with Gwyneth
Paltrow. Whether she's sporting a fake mustache in Shakespeare
in Love or celebrating all pink, perfect and teary at the
Academy Awards, we can't get enough of the pale perfection of
her skin, the promise perking in her mysteriously hooded eyes
or the heat of her wide smile. Everyone has his own
interpretation of the drama that is Gwyneth. For Shakespeare
costar Geoffrey Rush, her grin wins. "It's generous and humble
and provocative and sexy and vulnerable, all at the same time,"
he says. Casting director Leonard Finger finds her 5'9" figure
"statuesque," and celebrity hairstylist Laurent calls the 26-
year-old actress "a Grace Kelly for the '90s." Her grandfather
Arnold "Buster" Paltrow always had Great Expectations. "She was
beautiful from the beginning," he insists. The daughter of
actress Blythe Danner (Forces of Nature) and TV producer Bruce
Paltrow (St. Elsewhere), Gwyneth has already caused much ado in
the romance department, swirling from a 2 1/2-year-long
relationship with Brad Pitt to an intense passage with
Shakespeare cohort Ben Affleck, which fizzled in January.
Despite the amorousness -- and the Oscar -- Paltrow, who will
next be seen with Matt Damon in the December thriller The
Talented Mr. Ripley, seems still in the midst of a midsummer
night's dream. "Cameras were invented to photograph Gwyneth,"
says Great Expectations director Alfonso Cuaron. "She turns to
the camera and it's like, 'Gulp!'" Which just goes to prove
that love's labors are not lost.