Uma Thurman's turn

After years racked by self-doubt, Uma Thurman is approaching life differently now.

Uma Thurman is bopping around a downtown Asian-fusion restaurant in this city she calls home, where she has just enthusiastically ordered some of the fried specialities (“I never met a dumpling I didn’t like”), her 6-foot-frame (183cm) and luminous skin incongruous among the normal-sized and average-complected people around her.