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...successful young actor wondering whether to go ahead and direct a movie, you'll first want to take that call from Warren Beatty. That's what Edward Norton did a while back: had an out-of-the-blue phone session with the future winner of the Irving G. Thalberg Award. Recalling the chat, Norton deftly mimics the seductive Beatty stammer: "He said, 'I've been watching the stuff you're doing, and I think you're a lot like me. You're gonna be frustrated like I was, 'cause you're gonna want to do it yourself. I wanted...
...background is privileged as well. His father was an attorney, his mother an English teacher. Edward (don't call him Ed; there's nothing of the Honeymooners sewer rat about him) grew up in Columbia, Md., a town created by his grandfather, the social planner James Rouse. "My grandfather was a big fan of remaining fluid in your young life," Norton says, "of exploration and searching and seeking. He once offered to give me some money to keep me out of going into an investment-banking job." So the history major plunged into the New York City acting community. Before...
...there's a curse on Norton, it is his unease at fame. "He's not comfortable with being famous," says Stuart Blumberg, his Yale buddy who wrote Keeping the Faith. "He hasn't mastered the art of being a fake celebrity. But to his friends, Edward's the quintessentially normal guy. He's funniest when he's just being a nerdy goofball...
Nice words. They could go into a speech on Oscar night 30 years from now, when actor-director-writer-producer Edward Norton accepts the Irving G. Thalberg Award...
...Talk Magazine-the new heterosexual ideal is "Just Gay Enough." To be "J.G.E," you have to be proud of your omnisexual vibe. Poster children include Guy Ritchie (involved with Brit-aspiring gay icon Madonna), Matt Damon (the "boy" to Affleck's "man"), Vince Vaughn (embraces his own awkwardness), Edward Norton (always on the borderline of being a priss) or Matthew Perry (proud of his own insecurities). The line is ever-so-thin between "Not Quite Gay Enough" or "Just a Little Too Gay," but the boy who is "Just Gay Enough" is guaranteed to score. You tough guys must...