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...right. After three years of hype, hokum and ho-hum, we finally get it: Matthew McConaughey has star quality. We weren't so sure back when McConaughey was in every other film and on every other magazine cover. His summer-of-'96 double whammy, A Time to Kill and Lone Star, gave evidence of a gritty, ingratiating talent. But he looked lost amid the more seasoned actors in Amistad, and no one could have brought to sensible life the woozy guru he played in Contact. It seemed as if McConaughey might lapse into ex-hunk obscurity, like those slightly...
That's where Ed Pekurny, the guy McConaughey plays in the new Ron Howard comedy EDtv, works when he isn't tossing one back with his rakehell brother Ray (Woody Harrelson) or refereeing battles at home in a blue-collar section of San Francisco. Ed is apparently at ease in a bizarre family and unthinkingly content with a go-nowhere job. He doesn't even want what Ray has a quick itch for: to be on a TV show that will feature his real life 24 hours...
...McConaughey is the news here, dimples showing through the chin scruff, drawling out punch lines so you don't hear the rim shot, anchoring a film with enough weirdos to populate a Preston Sturges comedy. It's odd that this movie, not a star vehicle, should allow him to radiate star quality, and that's due in part to Howard's gift with actors. But it's more about this actor's sure connection with the character and the camera, and through them, the mass of moviegoers. Here he plays a man with the resources to handle unearned fame...
Though it seems they have little in common besides good cheekbones, JON BON JOVI and MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY have struck up quite a cinematic partnership. Bon Jovi wrote a song for EDtv, McConaughey's upcoming film, and the two are currently shooting U-571 in Rome. The film's about a World War II submarine, and the actors will spend three weeks on a sub off the coast of Malta. "I wasn't thrilled about getting my hepatitis and tetanus shots," says Bon Jovi, who's claustrophobic too. "I thought about getting a note from my doctor saying I got them...
Vanity Fair has demonstrated a most Vernon Jordan-like interest in fostering ambitious young talent. In previous months, the magazine has showcased Matt Damon and Matthew McConaughey on its covers before either had cracked the big time. We can only imagine what awaits budding "It Girl" GRETCHEN MOL, who, though still an unknown, will make her second cover appearance on the magazine's September issue. In April, Mol appeared as part of the ensemble fronting the magazine's "Hollywood" edition, shot, like the photograph above, by Annie Leibovitz. Audiences can decide for themselves whether Mol is worthy of such attention...