Show r w'TW-w-- t' Page 16 — The Herald Journal Logan Utah Thursday Marcti m m rvi n'nn 2000 SHERMANS LAGOON icmma HH NEW YORK (AP) — After three yean of being known as Ben Affleck'i little brother Casey Affleck is finally making his own mark an actor asked whether his superstar siblinjg was growing weary of questions about being Casey Affleck's older brother the younger Affleck joked M1 think he'll survive” But the impending stardom is no laughing matter Affleck has appeared in about a dozen films including the “Drowning Mona” and die upcoming “Committed" starring Heather Graham Luke Wilson and Goran Visnjic (Dr Luka Kovac on NBC’s let of Verplancka The film also stare Danny DeVito and Jamie Lee Curtis on die first day and we all sat “I showed around and read the script together and they had their reading glasses out and we were sitting back and they weren’t doing any jokes v Affleck said “I realized they're kind of just like my parents or Something you know and I felt much more comfortable to be myself after just-releas- “ER”) 1 kind of always took sort of the ‘under-thradar approach' and I think Ben was on the radar before he was even there” Affleck said “It was like an anomaly It was like they were looking at the radar and said 'Whars that e- blipr 0 The Affleck brothers who were bom three yens apart got an early start in acting One of their mother's college friends was a casting (1 0 HI K r appeared with Ben in die 1999 film “200 Ciga- HAGAR THE HORRIBLE rettes" tf' -- f In “Drowning Mona” Affleck is one rtf the suspects in the death of Mona Dearly (Bette r) die local stinker in the New York ham- - yr i roupfiA&AKxr ffa eiCKANP n&P IN OF eeisiG AL-QH- " director in their hometown of Cambridge -- c -- ' bell) whose father (DeVito) is the towns police chief The AP review of die film said Mass and she frequently used Ben and Casey “Casey Affleck as die picture of innocence is a real find he could give Leo (DiCaprio) a run as extras in various productions “We were really familiar with acting more for his money” than most kids and I think that's when we both One of Affleck's biggest challenges was kind of started wanting to do it” Casey said wearing a blood wig for two months Although They joined the theater program at Cambeing blond was fun the wig wasn’t he said bridge Ringe A Latin the prestigious public “They would glue it on to my forehead then high school that Ben’s friend Matt Damon around my ears and on to my neckband it had attended to stay on all day because it would take an hour attended Columbia to take on and off he said “Spending 10 but Casey University dropped out after two years to concentrate on hours a day in somebody else’s scalp would get acting He had a small part in “Good Will pretty nasty’ Affleck who lives in Manhattan said he has Hunting" which brought Damon and Ben fame fortune and a screenplay Oscar and no new films at die moment but would like to BEETLE BAILEY n J gave pointers while the film was being shot Affleck said Td be in a scene that was supposed to be funny and it wouldn’t be working and they knew they were intuitive about it and they would just change die scene in different ways that would put me in a position where I couldn’t help but be funny They made everyone else low good' so good' Affleck days Bobby Calzone the dimwitted but affable fiance of Ellen Rash (Neve Camp- work with Ben again “I’m just going to try to wait around until something comes along that I really really love instead of just having to do something just to take a job’ he said God die devil and Polanski B 'ri 3 H By Robert Deneretain Scripps Howard News Service It an upper flora of a New York skyscraper a Few directors have understood die terrifying sanctum of evil wisdom As it turns out Balkan owns a book suppos-- y mysteries of evil better than Roman Polanski Polanski has run his finger over the serrated written by die devil himself It contains erf in such movies as honor to edge “Rosemary’s obtaining supernatural powers e problem: There are two additional volBaby” and die darkly absorbing “Chinatown In his youth with “Knife in the Water umes' and Balkan can’t be sure he has the “Repulsion" Polanski proved deviously clever authentic one He asks Corso to locate the other a brilliant manipulator of images that created two and compare diem a task that brings him unbearable tension Watching a Polanski movie into contact with a sexy widow (Lena (Min) a meant slipping toward some teribte' precipice ' 'Spanish' arisfoctaf (Jack layTprf who hasTallen not knowing how for he planned to golt was on hard tmi&' and a haughty barormess (Barlike sitting in a room with a loaded gun on the bara Jeffbtd) who has had a “lifelong” crush table onthedeviL Corw also begins encountering murders as he During “The Ninth Gate" Polanski’s latest I wondered why he had chosen material that travels from New York to Spam and then to Paris He meets a strange woman (Emmanudlc strings us along nicely before revealing its meaSeigner) who seems to function as his guardian ger intentions Adapted from a novel by Spanish author Arturo Perez Revete Polanski’s angel vanguishing adversaries with Cnsp moves supernatural thriller takes forever to reach a boil and becomes silly and unsatisfying when it That’s about die only crispness to be found does “Ninth Gate can feel muted to the point of For a while Polanski keeps us guessing about enervation — and Depp is so whether he’ll be able to pull off a thriller mode that he foils to create interest The supporting performances vary Langella focused on an expert who sells rare books Polanski's foray into die occult commendably again explores the lower registers of vocal posavoids medal effects opting instead to estab- sibility (Bin has scenes in which lish a her sexuality erupts into violence and Seigner smilesbeatifically as she mangles her lines story PEANUTS OOW LUpLLE-TH- lS NEXT IS PRETTY 600P 50 : EYE ON THE BALL THAT'S HARP TDPOUMBIHOU -- KEEP MOVING IT AROUND ' I ' j WOMEN T6ET BACK OUT THERE M RI6WT (MAMABSKl REP WHERE I ARE EVEN CRABBIER iVOU BOONE! 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