THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT  
              Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: Thursday, July 25, 1996               TAG: 9607240091
SECTION: DAILY BREAK             PAGE: E1   EDITION: FINAL 
SOURCE: STORIES BY MAL VINCENT, ENTERTAINMENT WRITER 
                                            LENGTH:   22 lines

STAR GAZING TAKE A GOOD LOOK, THESE TWO HOLLYWOOD FACES ARE LIKELY TO BE AROUND FOR A LONG TIME.

NORMA DESMOND, the fading silent-movie star of ``Sunset Boulevard,'' perhaps put it best: ``We had faces back then. Now, there are no faces.''

Just when her prophecy seemed true, two luminous new faces have surfaced in widely varying films. In every sense, Liv Tyler and Matthew McConaughey have the kind of charisma that marks them as ``movie stars,'' which sometimes has nothing to do with acting.

Both have the kind of star-making roles - Tyler in ``Stealing Beauty'' and McConaughey in ``A Time to Kill'' - that rarely come along. Both are set for important future projects. Both are likely to be around for a long time. MEMO: [See accompanying stories on same page] by CNB