The Chickens Come Home to Roost

At this stage of her life, however, family is coming first. "It's not the popularity. Obviously, I need for my movies to make money so that I stay hired, but that's not what defines me," she stresses. "It's not going to hold my hand on my deathbed."

Wed for a year to actor Josh Brolin, three years her junior ‑- and son of James and stepson of Barbra Streisand ‑- Lane finds it "nice to be married to a younger man. I feel like we've been married 10 minutes or 10 years. We can't tell, which I think is a good sign."

When she decides on roles these days, she has to consider her new husband first of all, and then her daughter (with ex-husband Christopher Lambert) and two stepkids, and then the chickens they're about to raise. "It's a whole big life," she says. "If I get a script that's good, the first question I ask is 'Where?' If it's Bulgaria, I can't go. I don't want to lose too much of it or leave it for too long," she adds. "So I'm choosy. And if it's going to be in Bulgaria, it better be a damn good movie!"