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...sleepy sensuality of the young Robert Mitchum--a narcoleptic dreamboat quality that suggests a sleek predator roused from slumber by a poke through his cage. So when Benicio Del Toro got a call around noon Los Angeles time a few weeks ago to be told that he'd won the New York Film Critics Circle's Best Supporting Actor prize for his performance as a Mexican narc in Traffic, the 33-year-old emitted something like a growl. The new lion of Hollywood is a late sleeper and, he says, "I'm not a happy camper when I get woken...
...like breeding cattle and barely introduced before going off to the resort compounds where they would waft their pheromones toward the Temptees. A sexy reality show is not working if it brings Kurt Vonnegut to mind; all I could think of were the humans locked in an alien breeding cage in "Slaughterhouse-Five...
...sleepy sensuality of the young Robert Mitchum - a narcoleptic dreamboat quality that suggests a sleek predator roused from slumber by a poke through his cage. So when Benicio Del Toro got a call around noon Los Angeles time a few weeks ago to be told that he'd won the New York Film Critics Circle's Best Supporting Actor prize for his performance as a Mexican narc in "Traffic," the 33-year-old emitted something like a growl. The new lion of Hollywood is a late sleeper and, he says, "I'm not a happy camper when I get woken...
...what was it called? oh, yes - "Excess Baggage," which cooled off Alicia Silverstone's career in no time flat. Mostly he has ornamented indie films ("Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas," "The Funeral," "Way of the Gun") with his loping unpredictability; he built a solidly quirky rep, like Nicolas Cage before he went dolefully mainstream...
...Should he become a star, Del Toro will face the challenge Cage did: to focus his danger, his eye-catching weirdness, without losing it. Or he might follow his instincts and go even wilder - become the first leading madman. "Hopefully I'll get more opportunity to do things that will challenge me," says the young lion. "Hopefully I'm getting my freedom, coming out of the cage...