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Faith Domergue and Kenneth Tobey...
...Came From Beneath the Sea" also introduced me to two important actors in my Chiller Theatre Pantheon: Faith Domergue, Howard Hughes protégée and highlight of the classy "This Island Earth" (so tediously lampooned on "Mystery Science Theatre 2000") and Kenneth Tobey, a guy who personified an easygoing, Howard Hawks kind of professionalism in numerous sci-fi flicks, from "The Thing From Another World" to "Gremlins." I don't think there's a star on the Walk of Fame for Kenneth Tobey, but any fan of the genre knows just whom I'm talking about...
...with: Wonder Boys This movie has everything: Laugh-out-loud humor, snappy repartee and moments of devastating tenderness. Michael Douglas turns in what would have been, if anyone had seen it, a career-altering tour de force as a lovably unkempt English professor struggling to finish his second book. Tobey Maguire and Frances MacDormand also shine...
...Suddenly I was cool. In Los Angeles these days, going on strike is about the grooviest thing you can do short of wearing a hip-hoppy knit winter cap while lifting weights at Crunch next to Tobey Maguire. L.A.'s bus and rail operators have been on strike for about three weeks now in protest over the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's plan to eliminate some work rules and reduce overtime pay. The actors' unions recently set a record with the longest strike in Hollywood history, over pay for commercials. And already the Screen Actors Guild, the American Federation of Television...
Actors who play comic-book superheroes are generally well-built stiffs like Val Kilmer. (That was no bat mask, just his only facial expression.) But TOBEY MAGUIRE, 25, the cerebral and slightly doughy star of The Cider House Rules, bucked the trend last week by landing the part of Spiderman in the upcoming Sam Raimi-directed movie, beating out the Kilmeresque Freddie Prinze Jr. Though he hasn't started working out yet ("Hey, I just got this thing last Friday"), Maguire aced a crime-fighting screen test in bulge-revealing spandex, and he's already endured a fitting for Spiderman...