A rising ingénue with raw talent and bursting sexuality, Rose McGowan won praise for her breakthrough role as the speed demon in Gregg Araki's "The Doom Generation" (1995) and had a commercial hit playing the blonde teen bombshell Tatum in "Scream" (1996). Smart, hip and attractive, McGowan has a background just begging for talk show exploitation. Born in Florence, Italy, where her father headed the local Children of God cult (the same one in which River and Joaquin Phoenix were raised), she is the oldest daughter and second born of six. McGowan began modeling in Italian magazines as a child
