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...real name is Kevin Costner, and this backseat sizzler with Sean Young from the hit political thriller No Way Out has people lining up at movie theaters across the country. With a startlingly different look as the intrepid crime crusader Eliot Ness, Costner is also drawing crowds to The Untouchables. < These bookend summer successes have cinched his status as Hollywood's new romantic leading man. With his tall, rangy good looks and cool American strength, Costner, 32, is an old-fashioned movie hero. Like such stars as Gary Cooper, Clark Gable and Jimmy Stewart, he can fill the screen with...
...Costner is a little bewildered by his romantic image. "I don't think of myself as classically handsome," he says. "How sexy can you be? I don't have enough buttons to get everybody aroused. The limo scene in No Way Out was very difficult for me. I felt there was a certain clumsiness to it. I wondered if I was doing things right." Maybe the clumsy feeling came from his own past. As a sophomore in high school he was only 5 ft. 2 in. tall. "I didn't get my growth until college," he says...
...almost never acted either. Costner was born in Compton, a working-class neighborhood in South Los Angeles. His father, part Cherokee Indian, serviced electrical lines for Southern California Edison. His mother worked for the state welfare department. When Kevin was six, his father was promoted and began moving the family around California. "I was always on the outside," he says. "I didn't feel 'there' until the end of the year, and then we'd move again." He found a niche in high school basketball and baseball. "I had the exhibitionism knocked out of me, though," he says. "During...
...Costner plays the honest naval officer to the hilt, challenging his superiors, toying with would-be assassins and maneuvering his way through a minefield of sycophants and spy-chasers...
...whereas it is the simplicity of Costner and Young's love affair that charms viewers (there's never any doubt from first eye-contact on that they will make a picture-postcard couple, romping hand-in-hand through D.C., sailing happily in Annapolis Bay...), simple doesn't quite make it in the world of high-stakes political intrigue...