Fame's Not A Fair Game For Fairuza Balk

  What's more shocking about Fairuza Balk than her brilliant baby blues?  The fact that she considers appearing in The Craft--the film that put her on the mainstream movie map--a bit of a, well, curse.  "It just got loony," she says of the hype surrounding the flick about a high school's warring witches, costarring Neve Campbell.  "People were knocking on my door and looking in my windows.  All of a sudden everybody's staring, and I'm thinking, "Do I have food on my face?"

  Now that she's got two new huge roles on the horizon, Fairuza had better get used to more gawkers.  First, she's in this month's American History X, an intense flick about the turmoil surrounding two skin-head brothers, played by Edward Norton and Edward Furlong.  Then Fairuza tackles comedy in The Water Boy, a football farce with Adam Sandler.

  So how does the actress--whose parents named her the Arabic word for turquoise when they saw her sparkling eyes--intend to handle the attention?  Her strategy is to keep moving.  "I'll keep nomading it," she explains, "and never buy a house so people won't know where to look for me!"