| Show - - - 41900 DESERET NEWSTHE SALT LAKE 'TRIBUNE Slater has his eye on a lengthy career time I've broken the fourth wall in acting" he added with a laugh "When I 'as a kid appearing in 'The Music Man' on stage I was breaking the fourth wall all the time But I didn't know any better I didn't know you weren't supposed to wave to your mother in the audience during every scene" "Kieft" is Slater's 12th film in six years and the third — "Robin Hood- Prince of Thieves" and "Mobsters" were the other two — that has been released in the past By Barry Eclitatow Orange Calrgy Rtylver In his new comedyaction film "Miffs" Christian Slater steps into dangerous territory for an actor when he breaks the "fourth wall" and talks directly to the audience Although it flies in the face of conventional acting wisdom which says that an actor must ignore the audience or camera it has been tried before on stage ("Our Town") TV ("Moonlighting") and in the movies ("Ferris Bueller's ed ceded that it didn't turn out as well as he had hoped but he added that there was a good movie in there somewhere "I just saw 'Bugsy' the other day and I loved it it was a great movie" said Slater who played Charlie "Lucky" Luciano in "Mobsters" "That's the kind of movie I hoped I would be in but our movie ended up in bits and pieces all over the world They had different versions flying to Japan Europe and every other place There were extended versions shortened versions all kinds of weird versions "In my opinion audiences never got to see a full film Somewhere in all that mess there was a legitimate story It was there in the - seven months His latest movie which is heavy on laughs despite some violence was a needed change of pace for the young actor who found himself caught up in the controversies surrounding those other two films In "Robin Hood" critics com- Day Off") But it takes an extremely likable actor such as Bruce Willis or Matthew Broderick to pull it off Slater who is at the top of his 22- year-ol- d game is hoping that audiences like him enough to let him get away with it "I always go after the challenge in a role and that was the challenge of this role" said the actor who plays a dropout who inherits a private police force in San Francisco "The trick to doing it in a movie is to get real close to your cameraman There's got to be a lot of trust between you and the man looking at you through that little tube If he buys it the audience will buy it The important thing is to make the whole thing look comfortable "But this isn't really the first high-scho- Allman gets 'Rush' from new role By Lott Cedrone The Baltimore Eveiling Sun He says that he can't compare female to male directors because "Rush" is his first film "But I don't think being a woman has anything to do with anything" he said "Lill was very patient She didn't treat me like a rock 'n roll star or a rookie She treated me like everyone else She coached me helped me along and made me feel comfortable I did not feel intimidated I felt secure that she knew what she was doing and I'm proud of her for pulling it well-know- instance" Allman says that he can't wait to do another film: "I love it" ilsToRT 1 F17:4A14111 r-- J' - - : - - ' I sELEcTioN r ' "' of' --qi 1ok 1 0 A 771 t fi-L- 1 A I 41 1- i T I i ' i m99042' :i 1' 1 ! 1 4 1 1 ' 1 I t vba iloAódovansatow Can Beat A Heart Attack NIT‘k (BUT That's why we otablished the Chest rdin Center for sneered heart attacks at Pioneer Villey I lorital When nnnuto I r1 It's now possible to actually ications count the Chest Pain Center iis only We're in West a heartbeat dWilV :: call stop a heart attack But you must 911 to get you tO a hospital with cardiac capabilities promptly !117-- ' 1j L i I P1()NIERVALLE1' NI lis k44 40 1 A 1 ' - ' ti DCI 52'h ALL SA LE - 7 00 t -- " :: 7 :1' 1 ' - -' :r - 114 Illi 1 1 - ' r r 7"— s "i i'! 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' 1 ' i k t k Ia t 1 90 AYS 0' Q10 ' t rl - ::: -- ci ill ' e l - L w 1 4 ' - I ' I rldranwowmoomir-AmMoolwr- ir "There is only so far I'll go for my art" he said "I told them that I would not do any little dance numbers in my undies If they knew me they'd know I wouldn't do something like that" But while Slater was able to control the situation in this case he said he knows that with increased star status come more responsibil- - The film takes place in the early "70s so the actors had to dress accordingly "I couldn't believe we wore some of that stuff" Allman said "those bell bottoms for I - - I i- time with his family show off" I ' ! turned Mater into an actor to watch in the future Then "Pump Up the Volume" made it official: Slater was hot His name is shouted by squealing fans at premieres his picture appears on the covers of magazines and he reportedly dominated a Cosmopolitan magazine poll of the most popular young actors in Hollywood Slater is so hot that filmmakers wanted him to parade around in his underwear during "Ruffs" The actor who does appear shirtless in the movie put his foot down on what he saw as a gratuitous skin bracelet Gregg Allman who plays a drug dealer in the film "Rush" said that he got the role because director Lill Fini Zanuck saw him do a couple of acting roles on television "I had done a 4Superboy' I also did a talk show Lill happened to catch them back to back so she called me" he said "She asked me to read and I guess I lucked out" he added "I n acmet two or three tors who were on their way out of Lill's office as I was waiting to read I guess I'm lucky to have gotten the role because I'm pretty much an unknown" As a movie actor maybe but not as a rock star Allman has had ups and downs in his long career as a rock star He has had bouts with drugs and was once married to Cher He looks heavy on the screen in I - : WV 7 1992 4-- ' s f' "This certainly has been a won derful year and I'd be an idiot to complain but I think I'm a long way from being one of those superstars who carries entire pictures on their backs "I really don't want that that's too much pressure for me right now I'm too young to have a studio rely en me Let Costner do that kind of stuff I don't even want to get to the point where it's up to me how a movie does at the box office "Sure I'm the star of this film but 'Kuffs' isn't a big studio movie Its one of Universal'F small movies" When he finished filming "Kuffs" six months ago Slater announced that he was going to take some time off to rest and spend about murderous teenagers person he is almost slim He wore a band around his head He also wore dark glasses and a wide FEBRUARY - -- --- Ales and pressures script" Slater the son of casting director Mary Jo Slater and actor Michael D Gainsborough has been acting professionally since he was 7 when he appeared on the daytime soap "One Life to Live" His father was on another soap "Ryan's hope" at the same time Two years later Slater went on the road for a year in a national touring company of "The Music Man" He later appeared on Broadway in "Macbeth" "David Copperfield" and "Merlin" At 15 he made his film debut in "The Legend of Billie Jean" and followed that closely with "The Name of the Rose" in which he appeared opposite Sean Connery The release three years later of "Heathers" the dark cult film plained about the fihn's historical accuracy and about the actors' accents (mostly Kevin Costners) In "Mobsters" critics complained about everything "One of the main reasons I decided to do 'Kuffs1 was that I didn't have to worry about being historically accurate or accents" Slater said "I could just relax and play the character" In defense of his previous two projects Slater noted that "Robin Hood" has grossed $300 million at the box office so stories that refer to it as a failure are exaggerated As for "Mobsters" Slater con AIL TUES P -----‘ - 1 -- MUNE ra r) t ' r-7- :2 10 i:- r-- 7 7 - I 7 If r! r IA ": k 1:: i: ko f! e-- - -! 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