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InsideAUGUST 2008 VOLUME 9•8 regulars EDITOR’S NOTE 6 CAUGHT ON FILM 8 ENTERTAINMENT IN BRIEF 10 SPOTLIGHT 14 IN THEATRES 16 STYLE 40 HOT PLAY 42 MUSIC MAKERS 43 DVD RELEASES 45 HOROSCOPE 48 FAMOUS LAST WORDS 50 features DRUMMER BOY 24 The Rocker stars Rainn Wilson as a heavy metal drummer who schools a teenage band on the fine art of rockin’ out. Lesson one: don’t be afraid to get naked • By Ingrid Randoja

cover AND THE WINNER IS... 28 story In the comedy Swing Vote, Kevin Costner plays a doofus whose single ballot will decide the outcome of the U.S. Presidential election. Here the amiable actor talks about his real-life relationship with the Bush 36BLACK LIKE ME He soared as Iron Man, and now Robert Downey Jr. looks to cap his comeback by clan, and how he ended up portraying a white actor playing an African-American character in director Ben Stiller's Tropic Thunder. taking a dip in the White House Sure, it's risky, but as Downey explains, he's playing an arrogant A-lister who thinks he can do no swimming pool wrong, and that's something this former high-flying actor can relate to • By Jim Slotek • By Marni Weisz

CROSSING GUARD 32 He may be a megastar, but as Harrison Ford tells us, he’s still just an actor looking for a good role, which is he why he agreed to play a conflicted U.S. Immigration Agent in the ensemble drama Crossing Over 14 32 28 24 GETTY IMAGES BY MARCEL HARTMAN/CONTOUR BY PHOTO COVER • By Bob Strauss

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CATHERINE ZETA-JONESES Time for a puppy break. 1 Catherine Zeta-Jones plays KIEFER SUTHERLAND with someone’s wee dog in between shooting scenes for her CAUGHT PIERCE BROSNAN romantic-comedy The Rebound in Greenwich Village. MATT DAMON PHOTO BY JUSTIN STEFFMAN/SPLASH-KEYSTONE TOM HANKS Looking good for 55. 2 Mamma Mia! star ON FILM Pierce Brosnan enjoys a day of paddle-surfing (we didn’t even know that was a thing) in Hawaii.

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Whoever did the makeup 3 for Matt Damon’s thriller The Informant (seen here being shot in Hawaii) should win the Oscar. It’s not easy to make People’s Sexiest Man Alive look like that creepy neighbour you avoid eye contact with while watering the lawn.

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This bride, trying to get to 4 her church near Rome’s Pantheon, was shocked to find the set of Angels & Demons (The Da Vinci Code’s follow-up) blocking her way. So Tom Hanks stopped the filming and personally escorted her to her wedding.

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Even when he changes 2 3 5 his shirt it’s exciting! Kiefer Sutherland swaps tops on the set of the 24 movie that’s being shot in Western Cape, South Africa. The story will reportedly involve an international crisis in South Africa on the day that the new U.S. President is being inaugurated. It should hit theatres next year.

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INThe battle of theBRIEF American Idol castoffs, part two. Plus, where to buy magical pants

American Idol Face-off Artifact Katharine McPhee THIS MONTH’S OBJET DE and Kevin Covais FILM TRAVELING PANTS went head to head on Reluctant about buying the fifth season of clothes off the internet American Idol. She won because you’re afraid they that round, finishing won’t fit? Shouldn’t be a second while he came problem with this pair of jeans in 11th. Now they do worn by America Ferrera in battle again, both The Sisterhood of the Traveling starring in films about Pants. The 2005 movie college life. Here’s followed four friends — each how they stack up. with a very different shape and size — torn apart by KATHARINE MCPHEE KEVIN COVAIS circumstance, but who keep in touch by passing around a MOVIE The House Bunny (August 22) College (August 29) pair of Levis that somehow fits each one perfectly. SETTING The college sorority Zeta Alpha Zeta. The college fraternity Beta Phi. The jeans, which come PLOT A sorority of nerds and outcasts hires a Three nerdy high school seniors with a brown suede belt, former Playboy Bunny (Anna Faris) to (Drake Bell, Andrew Caldwell, Covais) summery red blouse and be their housemother, and teach them pretend to be members of a fraternity sandals also worn by Ferrera how to attract guys. during a weekend at their prospective in the film, are available on college, and try to attract girls. PremiereProps.com, where — surprisingly — they’ve been CHARACTER Harmony, a free-spirited member of Morris, an awkward teen pretending to be since the film came out. But Zeta Alpha Zeta. She’s pregnant. a member of Beta Phi. He’s likely a virgin. with the sequel, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2, hitting IMPORTANT PLOT Harmony gets a makeover from the Morris makes out with a theatres this month interest POINT Playboy Bunny. drunk co-ed. should be renewed. The cost? WRITTEN BY Veteran duo Karen McCullah Lutz and Newbie duo Adam Ellison, a gopher on Just $799 (U.S.). —MW Kristen Smith, who wrote Legally Blonde Shopgirl, and Dan Callahan, an actor with and 10 Things I Hate About You. bit parts in Untraceable and Spider-Man 3.

LOOKS A LOT LIKE Animal House meets The Girls Next Door. Superbad 2: Off to College.

THEIR FANS Called McPhans or the Kat Pack, they Called The Covies, they have their own caught McPheever during American Idol. website, CoviesOnline.com.

THEIR FUTURES Has a big part in the small movie Has a small part in the big movie The Storyteller. She’ll play the assistant Labor Pains, which stars Lindsay Lohan to an obsessed writer (Wes Bentley) as a woman who pretends to be pregnant dealing with the death of his father. so she doesn’t lose her job. —MW

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ON HOME TURF FILMS SHOOTING ACROSS CANADA THIS MONTH

The forecast calls for volcanoes, typhoons and glaciers in SURPRISING Vancouver from now until mid- THINGS THAT December. But no need to pack HAPPENED IN up the cats just yet, the extreme 7 weather events will be localized THE STAR WARS to the set of 2012, German director Roland Emmerich’s UNIVERSE WHEN (The Day After Tomorrow, YOU WEREN’T The animated Anakin Skywalker Independence Day, 10,000 BC, Godzilla) next apocalyptic thriller. LOOKING According to the Mayan Unless you’re a huge Star Wars Luke Skywalker Emperor Palpatine lived calendar, our world will come to fan, word of this month’s new established a Jedi academy on in a series of cloned an end in the year 2012 — movie, Star Wars: The Clone Wars on Yavin 4. He married a bodies. However, when which is as good a reason as probably left you wondering, woman named Mara Jade, one of those bodies began any to throw an estimated “What is this?” a former smuggler and to deteriorate he attempted $200-million (U.S.) into another Fear not, the film is not the assassin who worked for to possess the body of the effects-laden blow-’em-up pic. first installment of a third Emperor Palpatine. They infant Anakin Solo, and was In fact, there’s a second film trilogy filmed secretly at have a son named Ben. ultimately killed. titled 2012 currently in the Skywalker Ranch on George works for a 2010 release. Lucas’s summer vacation. Han Solo and Leia Organa Mace Windu travelled Emmerich’s movie is expected Instead, it’s an animated feature got married and had three back to his home world to come out in July 2009. that’s part of the Star Wars children: Jaina, Jacen and of Haruun Kal to fight his The production will move back Expanded Universe. In fact, it’s Anakin (named after Leia’s former Padawan, Depa and forth between B.C. and based on an animated TV series, father, of course). Billaba, who turned to the Los Angeles throughout the late the plot of which takes place dark side. —IR summer and well into the fall, so between Episodes II and III. R2-D2 and C-3P0 got look out for principal cast Again, for those who are not jobs guarding passengers members John Cusack, Star Wars aficionados, the for the Star Tours Amanda Peet, Thandie Newton, Expanded Universe includes all Travel Company. Danny Glover, Chiwetel Ejiofor the events/storylines that occur and Oliver Platt. in the Star Wars world beyond Chewbacca was killed And if you see signs the realm of the six Star Wars saving the life of Han Solo’s pointing to a set for Farewell films. So all the stuff that son, Anakin. Chewy’s death Atlantis, take a second look. happens in the Star Wars spin- sent Han into an alcoholic The project has gone by that off movies (like The Clone Wars), depression. name as well. —MW books, TV shows, videogames, radio plays, etc. To keep the Lando Calrissian married Universe in order and running a rich woman named smoothly, Lucasfilm Licensing Tendra Risant, and joined the even maintains a top-secret Galactic Alliance in its fight digital encyclopedia called the against an invading alien Holocron Continuity Database. species called the Yuuzhan Here are just seven of the Vong. An estimated 365 things that have happened to trillion sentient beings were your favourite characters in killed in the five-year war the Expanded Universe. between the two powers. Look for 2012’s John Cusack in Vancouver

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Vik Sahay in India. Amal hits theatres Aug. 1 VIK SAHAY’SMAGIC CARPET RIDE s an actor, how do you approach a scene are trying to survive on the most basic level is so disorienting,” says where your wealthy character walks out of a New Delhi Sahay, who was born in Nepean, Ontario, but now keeps apartments mansion nattily dressed and talking on a cellphone, in L.A. and Toronto and is in the latter for this interview. “For me, while at your feet are limbless beggars? Not actors losing my bearings was great because it fed right into my character.” playing beggars; not extras who are in on the And it made the shoot “one of the most profound, big, other- script; but the real thing. “We were just shooting worldly magic-carpet-ride experiences I’ve ever had,” says Sahay, in the surroundings,” Vik Sahay says of shooting the Canadian film who also plays scheming techie Lester on NBC’s Chuck. In fact, it was AAmal in India. “There was barely any ability to control the set.” returning to North America to shoot Chuck that really threw Sahay. Bringing more people to more remote places. Sahay used his discomfort to find his character, Vivek. The spoiled “The craziest part about it was, ‘Cut,’ ‘Wrap,’ then brushing off The Five passenger 2008 Jeep Wrangler UnlimiTed. With a 202-horsepower 3.8l v6 engine and Command-Trac™ son of a rich man who has just died, Vivek discovers his dad left his the dirt of the streets, and less than two months later I was on a 4Wd system, the Wrangler Unlimited can take you and your friends to the most remote places on earth. Whether or not you make it back entire fortune to a New Delhi rickshaw driver with whom he had soundstage in Burbank, California, doing a crackling comedy. These is another story. The Jeep Wrangler Unlimited starting at $25,245.* Continue the adventure by visiting jeep.ca or by calling 1-800-361-3700. one brief encounter. Vivek is not happy. are all amazing things, and I’m so lucky. But it was wild.” F “Playing a character who’s so focused on money and living a ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Western lifestyle, and then to be thrust into a setting where people Marni Weisz Have fun out there.

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Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 8 Best friends Carmen (America august Ferrera), Bridget (Blake Lively), INTHEATRESS Tibby (Amber Tamblyn) and YOUR MONTHLY GUIDE TO NEW RELEASES  BY INGRID RANDOJA Lena (Alexis Bledel) return in this sequel that sees them face very grown-up situations that test their friendship. But once again, it’s that magical pair of jeans (that somehow fits each of august1 the different-sized women perfectly) that helps keep these gal pals together.

Fly Me to the Moon’s astronaut insects

Fly Me to the Moon Pineapple Express (Rosie Perez, Gary Cole) can This 3D animated feature Whoa, a little weed proves trace back to his dealer Saul finds three young houseflies dangerous for pothead (James Franco), meaning the hitching a ride aboard the Dale Denton (Seth Rogen) when dope-loving duo must pack up 1969 Apollo 11 space flight so he witnesses a murder while their munchies and run for their they can walk on the moon smoking up. Dale leaves lives. Rogen co-wrote the script with astronaut Neil Armstrong. behind a reefer that the killers with Superbadpal Evan Goldberg.

Inside the blackened store Ben Episode III - Revenge of the Sith finds mirrors that reflect back ugly when Anakin Skywalker is still a 15 truths about his life, and perhaps good Jedi Knight and Obi-Wan is august hint at a parallel world hidden still his mentor. behind the surface of the glass. From left: John Hannah, Maria Bello, Luke Ford and Brendan Fraser in The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor Tropic Thunder Star Wars: Writer/director Ben Stiller takes a The Clone Wars swipe at insufferable thespians The Mummy: Tomb of the (Kelsey Grammer) and his Amal George Lucas pumps up with this comedy about a group Dragon Emperor opponent Donald Greenleaf When an Indian billionaire interest in his new animated of actors (played most notably The year is 1946 and explorer (Dennis Hopper). Both dies, leaving his entire Star Wars: The Clone Wars by Stiller, Jack Black and Rick O’Connell (Brendan Fraser) politicians, their handlers and fortune to a poor rickshaw TV series by releasing this Robert Downey Jr.impersonating and his wife Evelyn (Maria Bello) the media descend upon Bud’s driver, his spoiled relatives feature film starring the an African-American character), have retired from battling the small New Mexico town in the are not amused. See characters from the show. The shooting the most expensive undead, that is until their hopes of finding out which way Vik Sahay interview, page 14. story takes place during the Vietnam War movie ever made. grown son Alex (Luke Ford) he’s leaning, and to see if they Clone Wars that occur between But when the film’s director inadvertently opens the tomb of can sway his vote. See Kevin The Rocker Penélope Cruz is crazy jealous in Vicky Cristina Barcelona Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of (Steve Coogan) has had enough the Dragon Emperor (Jet Li), Costner interview, page 28. Drummer Robert “Fish” the Clones and Star Wars: of the whining cast, he dumps unleashing the evil ruler and his Fishman’s (Rainn Wilson) them in a real war zone to fend army of 10,000 soldiers. American Teen rock ’n’ roll dreams were cut Vicky Cristina Barcelona Mirrors for themselves. See Robert Director Nanette Burstein’s short in the 1980s when he Woody Allen’s latest has two Mirrors finds a French director Downey Jr. interview, page 36. Swing Vote heralded documentary focuses was kicked out of his band, young Americans (Scarlett (Alexandre Aja) teaming with a Looking to cash in on U.S. election- on five Indiana high school Vesuvius. But 20 years later Johansson, Rebecca Hall) Canadian-raised star (Kiefer Henry Poole is Here year fever, this comedy stars seniors. Like a documentary he gets a shot at redemption becoming romantically Sutherland) to remake a Korean All Henry Poole (Luke Wilson) Kevin Costner as Bud Johnson, a version of The Breakfast Club, when his nephew Matt involved with a handsome horror flick (Into the Mirrors). wants is to be left alone, but that beer-swiggin’ good ol’ boy whose the film follows The Jock, (Josh Gad) asks him to join artist (Javier Bardem) Sutherland plays Ben Carson, a becomes impossible when his single vote will decide the The Geek, The Rebel, The Princess his high school band. while spending the summer in down-and-out police detective religious neighbour sees the face Presidential election between and The Heartthrob as they See Rainn Wilson interview, Spain. Then his crazy wife who takes a job guarding a of Jesus in a water stain on the incumbent President Boone transcend those labels. page 24. (Penélope Cruz) comes home. burned-out department store. side of his house. continued

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The House Bunny’s bunny, Anna Faris

The House Bunny (Keke Palmer), the first girl to When Playboy bunny Shelly play in a Pop Warner football (Anna Faris) is kicked out of league tournament. And not only Hugh Hefner’s mansion with no does she play, she’s her team’s place to go, she gets a job as the quarterback, and gets some house mother to the college extra coaching from her sorority Zeta Alpha Zeta and Uncle Curtis (Ice Cube), a former gives makeovers to the house’s high school football star. female members, who are known more for their brains and weird Hamlet 2 personalities than their looks. A failed actor turned high school drama teacher (Steve Coogan) The Longshots gets the brilliant idea to stage a Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst sequel to Hamlet (ignoring the directs this based-on-a-true- fact most of the characters are story sports flick about killed off at the end of the 11-year-old Jasmine Plummer original) that turns into a fiasco.

Jason Statham in Death Race

Death Race inside a huge prison complex. This remake of the 1975 action But these race cars aren’t pic Death Race 2000 was tricked out with sponsors’ shot in Montreal and stars names, instead they’re Jason Statham as an inmate equipped with flamethrowers, who’s forced to compete in a machine guns and grenade deadly NASCAR-style car race launchers. continued UNIVERSAL PICTURES PRESENTSIN ASSOCIATION WITH RELATIVITY MEDIAAN IMPACT PICTURES - C/W PRODUCTIONIN ASSOCIATION WITH ROGER CORMANA PAUL W. S. ANDERSON FILMJASON STATHAMTYRESE GIBSON“DEATH RACE” IAN MCSHANEAND JOAN ALLEN MUSIC PRODUCTION DIRECTOR OF BASED ON STORY EXECUTIVE BYPAUL HASLINGER EDITORNIVEN HOWIE DESIGNER PAUL DENHAM AUSTERBERRY PHOTOGRAPHY SCOTT KEVAN THE SCREENPLAY BY ROBERT THOM AND CHARLES GRIFFITH BY IB MELCHIOR PRODUCERS ROGER CORMAN DENNIS E. JONES DON GRANGER RYAN KAVANAUGH PRODUCED SCREEN STORY AND DIRECTED 18 FAMOUS AUGUST 2008 BY WAGNERJEREMY BOLTPAULA PAUL W. S. ANDERSON SCREENPLAY BY PAUL W. S. ANDERSON BY PAUL W. S. ANDERSON A UNIVERSAL PICTURE © 2008 UNIVERSAL STUDIOS

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SPECIAL 29 EVENTS august on the Big Screen WWE-PAY-PER-VIEW SUMMERSLAM August 17:Temperatures inside the ring soar when the WWE’s premier summer event travels to Indianapolis’ famed Conseco Fieldhouse.

GO TO CINEPLEX.COM FOR PARTICIPATING THEATRES Vin Diesel in Babylon A.D. AND TO BUY TICKETS.

Babylon A.D. carries a virus that is capable of College Traitor Set in a bleak, technocentric altering human DNA. Let’s hope Three high school seniors Guy Pearce plays FBI agent future, this sci-fi flick stars the heavily rumoured rift (Drake Bell, Kevin Covais and Roy Clayton, assigned the Vin Diesel as a mercenary who’s between star Diesel and French Andrew Caldwell) experience task of tracking former hired to escort a young woman director Mathieu Kassovitz college life when they spend a Special Ops agent Samir Horn (French actor Mélanie Thierry) doesn’t manifest itself on wild weekend visiting the local (Don Cheadle), who may be from Russia to the U.S. What’s screen. Gérard Depardieu and college campus and hanging responsible for terrorist attacks special about the woman? She Michelle Yeoh round out the cast. out with a fraternity. around the globe.

Opera2008-2009 lovers from across the nation flockOPERA to select Cineplex Entertainment SCHEDULE theatres to immerse themselves in high-definition, live broadcasts from New York’s Metropolitan Opera. The Met’s 2008-2009 season looks enticing, below you’ll find a schedule of Cineplex Entertainment’s upcoming live and encore broadcasts. Tickets go on sale August 22nd at Cineplex.com.

OPENING NIGHT GALA(Soprano THAÏS(MASSENET) MADAMA BUTTERFLY(PUCCINI) Renée Fleming [left] performs Saturday, December 20, 12 p.m. ET Saturday, March 7, 1 p.m. ET three of her most acclaimed roles) (Encore: Saturday, February 14, (Encore: Saturday, April 18, Monday, September 22, 12 p.m. ET) 1 p.m. ET) 6:30 p.m. ET/PT LA RONDINE(PUCCINI) LA SONNAMBULA (BELLINI) SALOME(STRAUSS) Saturday, January 10, 1 p.m. ET Saturday, March 21, 1 p.m. ET Saturday, October 11, 1 p.m. ET (Encore: Saturday, February 21, (Encore: Saturday, April 25, (Encore: Saturday, November 15, 1 p.m. ET) 1 p.m. ET) 1 p.m. ET) ORFEO ED EURIDICE(GLUCK) LA CENERENTOLA (ROSSINI) DOCTOR ATOMIC(ADAMS) Saturday, January 24, 1 p.m. ET Saturday, May 9, 12:30 p.m. ET Saturday, November 8, 1 p.m. ET (Encore: Saturday, March 14, (Encore: Saturday, May 23, (Encore: Satruday, December 6, 1 p.m. ET) 12:30 p.m. ET) 1 p.m. ET) LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR LA DAMNATION DE FAUST(BERLIOZ) (DONIZETTI) Saturday, November 22, 1 p.m. ET Saturday, February 7, 1 p.m. ET (Encore: Saturday, January 17, (Encore: Saturday, April 4, 1 p.m. ET) 1 p.m. ET)

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INTERVIEW RAINN WILSON HEAVY

Best known for playing tightly wound characters on RAINNThe Office and Six Feet Under, Rainn Wilson lets loose as The Rocker’s heavy metal drummer in a teen rock band  BY INGRID RANDOJA

RainnWilson doesn’t tangle with The band, which also includes brooding lead singer Curtis (Teddy paparazzi, you don’t see him closing down trendy L.A. clubs, nor does Geiger) and dour bassist Amelia (Superbad’s Emma Stone), isn’t go- he have a sex tape posted online. ing anywhere, that is until a video of Fish rehearsing in the nude The 42-year-old actor is married to fiction writer Holiday Reinhorn, hits YouTube, and suddenly the band becomes a hot commodity. is the father of a young son (Walter) and a devoted follower of the Fish may be the most extroverted character the actor has ever Baha’i Faith. If he were a menu item, he’d be rice pudding. played, but he’s also emotionally stunted, and that’s the prototyp- But lurking deep in the heart of Mr. Blancmange is a kick-out-the- ical Wilson character: the child/man whose self-involved antics jams, rock ’n’ roll star. Wilson allows his wild side to surface in the make us both laugh and cringe. new comedy The Rocker, in which he plays Robert “Fish” Fishman, an We first got a glimpse of Wilson’s immense talent when he aging drummer who gets the chance to revive his rock career when appeared as the wonderfully creepy undertaker Arthur in TV’s his teenage nephew Matt (Josh Gad) asks him to join his band, A.D.D. Six Feet Under, which in turn led to him being cast as continued

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“I took a couple of weeks of drum lessons in my garage, thundering away and pissing off my neighbours in Los Angeles,” says Wilson. “There’s a certain mentality to someone who likes to sit at A.D.D. bandmates, from left: the back and pound as loud Josh Gad, Teddy Geiger, as possible on something” Emma Stone and Rainn Wilson

the supremely nerdy suck-up Dwight Schrute in the U.S. version of and Vaseline, whatever it would take to make me look as sweaty as The Office. He’s popped up on the big screen as Luke Wilson’s misog- humanly possible, and I remember it running down my ass crack. ynistic pal in My Super Ex-Girlfriend and as a sympathetic science Good times [laughs].” teacher in The Last Mimzy. Poster You can credit the 10 years Wilson spent working onstage in Q:Did you relate to Fish in that, like you, here’s a guy who New York for honing his acting skills. The Seattle, Washington, becomes a celebrity later in life? native attended both Tufts University (located near Boston) and the A: “I won’t say that I can relate to Fish in that sense, because all I BOY University of Washington before moving to New York to enroll in wanted to do was be a working actor. All I wanted to do is get paid You may be asking yourself, NYU’s graduate acting program. After graduation he waited tables, and not have to wait tables anymore or drive a moving van anymore “Where did they find that worked in offices and operated his own moving company in order to in order to make rent. And I just kept going, and I just kept getting kid in The Rocker poster? supplement his theatre career. more and better and bigger parts, and doors just kept opening for He sure does look a lot like Decked out in an AC/DC T-shirt and Buddy Holly glasses, Wilson me. And then I got lucky enough to get on Six Feet Under and The Office a young Rainn Wilson.” was in Toronto (where The Rocker was filmed) to chat about learning and then I became a celebrity. But things could have certainly gone in Well, they didn’t have to to play drums for the movie, the lure of celebrity and getting naked another direction.” look far, it is Rainn Wilson. in front of the camera. “It’s pretty remarkable Q:Have you ever thought about what would have happened if a isn’t it,” says Wilson Q:I can’t believe you hadn’t played drums before being cast in producer had plucked you from a play while you were in your while staring at the The Rocker. You’ve got chops. early 20s and cast you in some TV sitcom? oversized poster during A: “Thanks. It’s one of the first things that I said when I read the A: “You don’t really know who you are when you are in your early his interview in Toronto. script, the drumming has gotta look real and it’s gotta feel real. After 20s. You don’t start finding yourself until your late 20s or your 30s. “That’s me back in second I got cast I took a couple of weeks of drum lessons in my garage, Celebrity will f--k with your brain no matter when it happens. If you grade at Garfield thundering away and pissing off my neighbours in Los Angeles. At get famous at 60, it will f--k with your head ’cause it’s crazy. My heart Elementary School in first I thought about drums as any other musical instrument, but goes out to those poor girls who are famous at 17, and sex symbols Olympia, Washington, in they’re not. There’s a certain mentality to someone who likes to sit at too. I’m a celebrity, but not a sex symbol — well only to some very 1974. That’s my shirt, but the back and pound as loud as possible on something. There’s liter- weird few. But to be a sex symbol and a celebrity that young, that can they ripped the sleeves ally a ‘drummer’s mentality.’ No matter how cerebral a drummer just...whoa.” off. I had no glasses, they you’ll meet, they all love to rock, and there’s that unabashed, open- gave me ‘Dwight’ glasses heartedness and physicality I really learned a lot about.” Q:Hollywood just loves to sexualize young girls. [referring to his character A: “There’s no way you’ve had a healthy sex life yet, so to be put in on The Office], and a Q:Do you have a musical background? push-up bras, on billboards...it’s a crazy, crazy ride.” Rocker tattoo.” A: “I took piano lessons as a child and played music in bands all But little Rainn’s hair through high school. I was in the orchestra, I played bassoon for Q:You didn’t have to worry about push-up bras playing Fish, but looks as if it may have years, and was a band geek in the marching band. Now I play guitar. rather squeezing into tight leather pants. also had some highlights I could read music, which helped me a lot.” A: “When I tried on the wig, put on the crazy shirts, the ‘guy liner’ added. Did the studio [Wilson’s term for mascara] and leather pants...you can learn so marketing types touch-up Q:But you don’t just play the drums, you play the drums naked. much by being physically informed by the character. People always his mop of hair? How did it feel to strip down for the camera? ask me that about Dwight from The Office, and when you wear those “Nah, that’s the way...,” A: “I was naked in front of the crew, which was a little weird, but we Dwight glasses, part your hair in the middle and you’ve got a calcu- Wilson suddenly stops always knew that was the comic centrepiece of our movie. I had to lator wristwatch on and you’re wearing a polyester/wool-blend suit, talking to study the poster keep it believable in that Fish thinks the camera is the microphone, you can’t help but sit a certain way or look at the world a certain way. more closely, “...they and that he happens to be naked in this hot basement of this Chinese It affects you. Anyone can do it, you don’t even have to be an actor.” F might have highlighted my food restaurant. Many of my fond memories of making this movie are /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// hair a little, yeah.” —IR of being spritzed with sweat at five in the morning. Glycerin, water Ingrid Randoja is the deputy editor of Famous.

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INTERVIEW KEVIN COSTNER

She might not go home with you... THE WHOLE but we will! INHIS 16” X-LARGE HANDS WORLDIn Swing Vote, Kevin Costner plays the man 1 TOPPING PIZZA who gets to decide whether the Republican or Democratic candidate will become the next President of the United States. In real life, Costner calls George Bush Sr. a friend, but swears it has nothing to do with politics  BY MARNI WEISZ

$ 99ADD evin Costner says he’s not a particularly political ago. But with greying hair and deep creases running down from person. Not in the traditional sense, anyway. He’s never publicly the corners of his eyes he definitely owns his 53 years. dipping sauce supported a candidate, and he decides from election to election Costner is here for two reasons. His band, Modern West (he 69¢ Kwhether he’ll vote Democrat, Republican or Independent. sings), is playing Toronto’s Phoenix Concert Theatre. He’s also here But he does have some very strong feelings about the political to talk about Swing Vote, his political comedy that comes out this Not valid at theatre locations. process. For one thing, he’s irritated by the fact that Presidential month, three months before Americans finally decide between election campaigns take so damn long. Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain. 9 “These are the two best people in the country running. Well, what “They were both voted in to be senators, to represent the ideas For Pick-up, Dine-in or Delivery call: or your local have they been doing for two years,” asks Costner in a recent Toronto of our own citizens, and they’re out there running for two years. interview. Tall, thin, and dressed smartly in a tailored pinstripe shirt, To think that these guys are that charismatic, or wield that much tan pants and brown cowboy boots, he’s still got that boyish grin influence — certainly we could have passed…” he says, trailing that made him irresistible to Susan Sarandon in Bull Durham 20 years off. “We haven’t passed sh-t with them on the road.” continued

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fence. So it was already a pretty good day. Now he would get to watch me see the pool, there was some guy in the pool.’” the Orioles play their game. Costner waited a week before telling Stone he was the one splashing “I was back in the locker room and they said, ‘The President would around with the First Family. like to play golf with you,’” recalls Costner. “It’s not something you Eight years later, when Costner was making Message in a Bottle in say no to, but I’m thinking, ‘Well, I would like to see this game.’” Maine, the Bush family invited him to their Kennebunkport compound No luck. Within minutes he was showered and heading down to go fishing. the freeway in a Secret Service car with blue lights flashing and the Costner says some people assume he’s a Republican because of his President’s staff arranging to get him golf shoes and lunch. Minutes association with the Bushes, but that’s never been true. later they were at Andrews Air Force base boarding a plane for “I’m forever grateful for [George Sr.’s] friendship, but it didn’t come Washington, D.C., and then a short drive to the golf course. out of any political aspiration, or me having ever been supportive, “I literally get out of the car, see Andre Agassi, the President and his but the way him and Barbara were,” says Costner. “Consequently, I future son-in-law…and I’ve got a brownie in my mouth and am put- disagree a lot with their son, but [because of] their kindness to me, ting on my shoes like this [gets up from his chair and hops around].” I’ve never wanted to be forceful publicly against their son…I know After a lightning-fast round of golf Costner assumed the day was it would break their heart.” over, but the President asked him back to the White House. “So we Costner reiterates that he’s never endorsed any candidate, but get in the helicopter and we went over, and he says let’s play some adds, “I might do it this time.” horseshoes.” Then they went for a swim in the pool. And after that Really? Who? Barbara Bush invited Costner to stay for dinner. “We’re not going there,” he says. “Yet.” F “The next day, I’m at the set and Oliver’s really pissed off about /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// something. ‘Ah, they hate me.’ Who hates you Oliver? ‘Ah, the Marni Weisz is the editor of Famous. President, they hate me.’ Why do they hate you Oliver? ‘Ah, I went over to the White House yesterday and I wanted to get a tour and they didn’t let me see hardly anything…. They wouldn’t even let DAVID Bud Johnson (Kevin Costner) with his precocious daughter Molly (Madeline Carroll) in Swing Vote GIAMMARCO’S BIG CHILL MOMENT “All we were exploring was of the night the country is deadlocked and the race will be decided by You may recognize playing a behind-the-scenes the Johnsons’ district, Texico, New Mexico — which is currently tied. David Giammarco, seen here political operative who helps the humanity of two guys Bud’s voided ballot must be recast…and will be the deciding vote. with Kevin Costner at the manipulate the political vying for the biggest job on So both candidates — the slick incumbent Republican, President actor’s Aspen ranch, as the process in the next U.S. Andrew Boone (Kelsey Grammer), and the earnest Democratic hopeful Canadian entertainment election,” says Giammarco. the planet,” says Costner. Donald Greenleaf (Dennis Hopper) — descend on small-town Texico reporter formerly with CTV’s He spent a week on the “Who would doubt that they to mount an entire campaign directed squarely at Bud. eTalk. He was also a regular Albuquerque, New Mexico, might be willing to switch “All we were exploring was the humanity of two guys vying for the contributor to Famous for set last September and shot biggest job on the planet,” says Costner. “Who would doubt that they years, and still writes for us scenes with Costner, Kelsey their positions in order to might be willing to switch their positions in order to gain one vote?” from time to time. Grammer and Dennis Hopper. gain one vote?” President Boone romances Johnson with a meeting on Air Force One About 17 years ago, “He had a love scene and a this is your damn Big Chill and Greenleaf throws a swanky party in Bud’s honour, at which Bud’s Giammarco struck up a big fist fight,” says Costner. moment,’” Costner says. Swing Vote, which Costner also produced, is all about the political Willie Nelson tribute band (really Costner’s Modern West) is invited to friendship with Costner on the “At least, I told him that was He’s referring to his own body at the start of the film. process, or at least what happens when one election campaign goes play. It’s completely overwhelming for Bud, as it would be for anyone set of JFK, where he was doing what he was going to have, but famous non-appearance in “I could’ve shoved him in ridiculously wrong. — even a movie star like Kevin Costner. research. “David’s been one of he didn’t have that at all.” the 1983 ensemble film about there, being the producer,” Costner plays Bud Johnson, a somewhat neglectful single father As it turns out, Costner, the Oscar-winning director (Dances With my really good friends,” Alas, Giammarco’s entire seven old friends brought Costner says of Giammarco. whose 12-year-old daughter Molly (Madeline Carroll) runs the house. Wolves) and star of some seriously fine films (The Untouchables, confirms Costner while in performance was cut and together by the suicide of an “But at the end of the day, While Bud couldn’t care less about the election, Molly could go toe-to- Field of Dreams, Thirteen Days), was similarly overwhelmed by the Toronto to promote Swing Vote. Costner had to break it to his pal. eighth friend, Alex. Costner kind of like The Big Chill, it just toe with Chris Matthews or Bill Maher (both of whom have cameos) first President Bush (George Sr.) on what he describes as “one of the “He sometimes comes down “I just called him and said, played Alex. It was supposed wasn’t right. So I have to look on any of the issues. greatest days” of his life. and vacations with us.” ‘Hey buddy, you’re out...’ And to be his big break, then all of for [a role for] him some more. On Election Day, Molly convinces Bud to vote, only to have him It was 1991 and Costner was in Baltimore shooting Oliver Stone’s Last summer, Costner he said, ‘What am I going to his scenes were cut but one. He’s going to have years of stand her up at the polling station. So she sneaks into the booth with JFK, about the Kennedy assassination, when he was invited to asked Giammarco if he’d like a tell everybody in Canada?’ I Those are his slashed wrists therapy, because he was his ballot. But the machine shuts off, and the vote is not registered. In play with the Baltimore Orioles before a game. He shared the field small role in Swing Vote. “I was said, ‘You’re going to tell them you see as the camera pans a really counting on this.” —MW a twist of electoral fate even stranger than Florida in 2000, at the end with shortstop Cal Ripken, and even managed to hit a ball over the

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INTERVIEW HARRISON FORD

FROM INDY TO

You’d think Harrison Ford arrison Ford came back just the way every- INDIE one wanted him to earlier this year, playing might kick back and live off the Indiana Jones after nearly two decades away back-end profits of his other from his signature role. 2008 movie, Indiana Jones and But will many people want to see him again so soon? the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Ford’s other 2008 movie, Crossing Over, is But he still has that itch to act. a tough, multi-plotline drama about one of Even when his new part is just the U.S.’s most polarizing issues. The film co-stars Sean Penn, HAshley Judd, Jim Sturgess, Alice Braga and a variety of actors from one fragment of the ensemble assorted ethnic backgrounds joining together to create a dramatic message movie Crossing Over narrative about immigration.  BY BOB STRAUSS The movie, which hits theatres later this year, scratches the serious thespian itch that the, arguably, most successful action- movie star of all time has picked at repeatedly for the last 35 years. “You pays your money and you takes your choice,” Ford jokes at the airport in Santa Monica, California, where the avid pilot keeps a tiny office and a hangar full of his personal aircraft. “The theme of Crossing Over is immigration. I became interested in doing something where it was an ensemble cast, where I didn’t feel responsible for the screenplay or the overall success of the project. I just showed up and I did my work, which I enjoyed quite a bit.” continued

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Yeah, but did it fulfill his higher artistic aspirations in a way that off. And when he did snag a part in those early days, it was mostly cracking bullwhips, fighting aliens and exploring lost temples doesn’t? odd TV work and the occasional, minuscule role in a film classic like “You know, my attitude about art…,” he starts out, as if to be snide, American Graffiti or The Conversation. That is, until Star Wars’ space but then thinks better of it. “There’s no difference in the creative cowboy Han Solo rocketed his name to the top of the A-list. process, whether you’re doing a film that’s an entertainment or “My career didn’t start until most people give up!” Ford laughs you’re doing a film that’s serious in intent, and ambitious. The job on heartily. “I didn’t make a f---in’ dime in this business until I was 35 the set is exactly the same: give the best possible expression to the years old!” ideas contained in the scene, make it interesting, make it work. It’s Although Ford, now 66 years old, looks a bit weary in Crossing Over, the same job and it’s a job I love.” in person he looks more like the vital and robust Indiana Jones from The brainchild of writer-director Wayne Kramer (Running Scared, Crystal Skull — impressively fresh and ready to take on anything. The Cooler), himself a transplanted South African, Crossing Over ex- “I play tennis, I ski, go to the gym three or four times a week,” Ford plores how a variety of migrants in Los Angeles, some there legally shrugs, adding that good genes are probably the main reason for his and some not, come to terms with the dream-challenging realities of vital longevity. the City of Angels. The film also shows how those charged with Some things have changed, though. He’s essentially in his third enforcing America’s entry and work laws cope with often trying family situation with partner Calista Flockhart and her son Liam situations, which is where Ford’s character, Max Brogan, comes in. (there are two kids each from Ford’s two marriages). And while some “He’s an Immigration and Customs agent,” the actor explains in long-time interests are still pursued, others have fallen by the wayside. his usual, to-the-point manner. “It’s about an issue that affects us all, “I fly a couple of times a week,” Ford notes. “I fly for travel, for so I’m interested as a citizen. I’m also interested in the economic pleasure; basically, any time I can find an excuse. As for carpentry, impact and the emotional aspects of immigration reform. So I’m you know what? I’ve lost my chops. I still have a shop at my home in happy to see the subject getting attention.” L.A. and my home in Wyoming. It’s one of the things I hope to get But will the downbeat film get attention? Ford has made some back into spending some time doing.” acclaimed dramas in his time, such as Witness, Presumed Innocent and He keeps plugging away at that other profession of his, though, “I became The Mosquito Coast. But even when not working in outright fantasies long past the point where he needs to. And with the Indy reboot interested in like the Indy and Star Wars films or Blade Runner, most of his hits have providing a much-appreciated career boost, he intends to keep at it been sold as much for their action elements as their dramatic ones. for as long as he can. doing something Furthermore, until Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Ford hadn’t appeared “I see myself as a working actor; a lucky working actor,” Ford says. where it was an in a major moneymaker since 2000’s What Lies Beneath. And that was “I’ve had a chance to work with incredible people on incredible a ghost story. projects. It’s made me a very comfortable and interesting life, a ensemble cast,” If he’s worried about his bankability, Ford sure doesn’t act like it. challenging life. And I’ve had a great time.” F says Ford, “where And he knows what it’s like to not make it in Hollywood. For years, ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

PHOTO BELOW BY ASTRID RIECKEN/THE WASHINGTON TIMES-KEYSTONE WASHINGTON RIECKEN/THE ASTRID BY BELOW PHOTO I didn’t feel he supported himself as a carpenter while waiting for acting to pay Bob Strauss lives in L.A. where he writes about movies and filmmakers. responsible for the screenplay or the overall SEVEN THINGS YOU success of the PROBABLY DIDN’T project. I just KNOW ABOUT showed up and I HARRISON FORD did my work, • His younger brother, depression in his early 20s which I enjoyed Terence Ford, is a photographer • Is an active member of the quite a bit” and former actor who environmental group appeared on the soap operas Conservation International The Young and the Restless • His son, Ben Ford, is a chef and General Hospital who’s appeared on the TV • Has a spider: Calponia series Iron Chef America harrisonfordi, and an ant: • Rumoured to have bought Pheidole harrisonfordi, named a multi-million dollar home on after him Bowen Island (off the coast of • Played the washtub bass for B.C.) with partner Calista the folk band The Brothers Flockhart in 2005. Those Gross while attending college rumours turned out • Suffered from clinical to be false —IR OppoOpposite page: Harrison Ford attends a Conservation International meeting in support of tigers. This page: Ford goes to work in Crossing Over

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COVER STORY ROBERT DOWNEY JR. BULLETIs Downey T? He survived drug addiction, PROOFtwo jail stints and a careerF meltdown only to come back as this summer’s big hero, Iron Man. ho is that familiar-looking African-American Now Robert Downey Jr. takes actor standing next to Ben Stiller in ads for the Vietnam War movie spoof Tropic Thunder? what may be his biggest Is it (a) Terrence Howard? (b) Russell Crowe? on-screen risk, playing a white (c) Colin Farrell? (d) Daniel Day-Lewis or (e) Robert Downey Jr.? actor playing a black actor in WTo some extent, it is (f) all of the above. But for the record, it is the over-the-top comedy Downey, the comeback story of the summer, taking what some see as the comedic risk of his career. Tropic Thunder  BY JIM SLOTEK Tropic Thunder’s Robert Downey Jr. Tropic Thunder, directed by and starring Ben Stiller, is a satire set as whwhite actor Kirk Lazarus within the production of a very serious Vietnam War film. Finally ex- playiplaying a black character asperated by the high-maintenance cast, the director (Steve Coogan) and writer (Nick Nolte) arrange to drop them into a real Asian war zone — which the players at first think is some sort of rehearsal exercise. Tropic Thunder’s real target is the pretentiousness of “important” moviemaking, and Downey’s character, Kirk Lazarus, is perhaps the most important cog in the movie’s machinery of self-importance. He’s an Oscar-winning “method” actor who takes a role meant for an African-American, and, without a second thought, decides to play it as African-American. “It’s my Australian five-time Oscar winner’s particular dysfunc- tion that he believes he can play an African-American more effec- tively than any African-American can,” Downey says in a recent phone interview. He’s calling from a hotel room in Paris. “It’s a brilliant character. Ben made this very, very interesting, sophisti- cated, outrageous kind of farce about actors and Hollywood. And it really doesn’t stray all that far from the real thing.” continued

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HAWAIIAN TROPIC While Tropic Thunder is about a director so frustrated with the spoiled cast of his Vietnam War movie that he Downey admits the description of drops them in the jungles of the Australian Lazarus automatically Nam to inject some realism, puts one in the mind of Crowe, with the cast of Tropic Thunder “bits” of Farrell and Day-Lewis. And didn’t have it so bad. probably several other actors alongside They shot the film on the whose name you might find the word Hawaiian paradise of Kaua’i, “important.” which, thanks to its sunny Lazarus is obsessive about his role to days and lush tropical the point that — in a making-of movie- vegetation, was a perfect — within-the-movie — he is seen researching albeit much more cushy — his role by moving in with the Black veteran stand-in for Nam. on which his character is based, and taking The fact that director his psychiatric medication. Ben Stiller owns a home on Meanwhile, for the physicality, Downey’s Kaua’i, and married wife friend and Iron Man castmate Terrence Howard Clockwise from left: Downey with Canadian actor Jay Baruchel; withh Brandon T. Jackson (left) and Ben Stiller; and with his inspiration Terrence Howard at the Iron Manpremiere Christine Taylor on a beach reports, “Downey said he played me, like he on the island’s North Shore literally put a picture of me up in his trailer in 2000, probably didn’t and said, ‘I want to become Terrence.’ Downey, who never met a dark indie film he didn’t like, admits it was the Hulk, Iron Man, Captain America, Thor and Ant-Man, which Marvel hurt either. “It’s okay,” Howard adds with a laugh. “I think it’s perfect, it’s a shift in consciousness to take roles in big commercial films. For one “It’s my wants to “cross pollinate” as a movie franchise. Most locals were thrilled absolutely beautiful. It may open up the way for me to play a white thing, he got to call a lot more shots than he ever thought possible. Australian Whichever move he makes, Downey’s karma is good, Howard says. with the production, since guy one day. I’m using it as a precedent.” “Between Iron Man and Tropic Thunder, I’ve discovered big movies fifive-time Oscar “Robert walks in completely transparent because he no longer much of the movie’s Call it anything you want, but don’t call it “blackface.” It’s been a and big-concept comedies are really cool and really fertile ground. I feels you think more of him than what he is. All of his skeletons are estimated $100-million (U.S.) sensitive issue for the production, and Downey admits there were didn’t think these genres of movies could be so ideally suited for the winner’s out of the closet, which is a good place to be. All the rest of us, we budget landed on their some misgivings going in. But testing indicated that audiences were way I like to express myself. particular spend half our time hiding and masking our demons and darker side. emerald shores. Plus, as able to make the distinction between “playing black” and playing a “Of course, doing high-minded drama is still interesting to me too, But we know the worst of his deeds, which is a kind of freedom.” many as 400 Hawaiians got character who’s playing black. Says Downey: “It’s interesting in that stuff like The Soloist,” he says of his upcoming drama with Jamie Foxx, dysfunction For his part, Downey says his new attitude comes from separat- work as extras — most as people are starting to see it, [the “blackface” issue] literally doesn’t about a schizophrenic music prodigy who ends up homeless and ththat he believes ing his life — wife Susan Downey and son Indio from a previous playing Vietnamese. even wind up in the top-10 list of things they’re commenting on.” playing concertos under a bridge. Based on a true story, Downey marriage — from the noise of celebrity. “I can say that particularly Here’s how one casting Not that Downey would shy away from a challenge at this point in plays the newspaper reporter who befriended the wayward genius. he can play in the last bunch of years, I just am a little bit more Harrison Ford call read: “Seeking men, his Phoenix-like career. Once considered uninsurable and all-but- “I’m playing a journalist again [he also played one in Zodiac], which an African- about the whole thing,” he says, referencing one of Hollywood’s women and children ages career-dead in the late ’90s after dealing publicly, and repeatedly, seems to be a bit of a karmic thing for me,” Downey says. “It also AmAmerican more biggest privacy freaks. eight through 80 to portray with substance abuse problems, the 43-year-old is a hot property makes me much nicer in interviews. I just know what a challenging “I get a kick out of [Hollywood] and it feels like my real life because thin Vietnamese villagers. after starring in one of the summer’s biggest hits, Iron Man. job it is and what a drag it is to make an agreement to talk to someone efeffectively than I spend so much of my life in it. But I have enough aesthetic distance No acting experience He was incongruously named part of “The New A-List” in a recent who then promptly informs you that they don’t want to talk.” any African- to know that it’s about persona and it’s about projection and inflation necessary. Character faces Entertainment Weekly feature, alongside actors half his age or less, He’ll be talking a lot for the next few years at least — what with instead of reality.” F (missing teeth, etc.) are like 21-year-old Ellen Page, 21-year-old Shia LaBeouf, 20-year-old two more Iron Man movies on his contract, and his place as a key American,” /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// welcome.” —MW ROBERT DOWNEY JR. AND TERRENCE HOWARD PHOTO BY JIM SPELLMAN/WIREIMAGE SPELLMAN/WIREIMAGE JIM JIM BY BY PHOTO PHOTO HOWARD HOWARD AND TERRENCE AND TERRENCE JR. JR. DOWNEY DOWNEY ROBERT ROBERT

Michael Cera and 26-year-old Seth Rogen. piece of The Avengers, the superhero team from the ’60s that included says Downey Jim Slotek writes about movies for the Toronto Sun.

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When the most difficult, secret and dangerous missions in the galaxy need to be solved, there’s only one robot to turn to: Secret Agent Clank. Ratchet has been wrongfully jailed and it’s up to you to free him and clear his name. Embark on a top-secret intergalactic rescue mission, using state-of-the-art gadgets to overcome challenges in stealth, puzzle-solving and hand-to-hand combat. You’ll need to use everything you’ve got. Literally.

Secret Agent Clank is a trademark of Sony Computer Entertainment America Inc. Developed by High Impact Games. ©2008 Sony Computer Entertainment America Inc. “PlayStation,” “PS” Family logo and “PSP” are registered trademarks of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.

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