Show r IN THE UNITED STATES ES BRADY Ptrrarat Maria CTRESS MARISA Tomei hid just flown back to the States horn a visit to SSoRuk Brazil with a pal and was explaining how you don’t get on south-nort- Greenwich Village and haa a new place in Los Angeles Right now she's busily reading plays to sea if there's a great role out there Does the coast matter— -- Marisa Traiel stars as "a llttto h hsttie1 Id i sew tlim called Broadway or ULP No she said but the role and the writing do: I’m reading a lot of different play If a play is not right I don't want it Cm looking for things that I lik and which gat me more control of my destiny” Her new film has musical ' numbers How serious is Tomei about Jislitisnal talks ikoit liber flicks m ait! Jack Nlckolsii Blkssi ht Mil ud Min Sutler kiss Mel Gibson but losing him to Helen HiunL What's Mel like? “He’s the greatest" said Tomei “You get all of what you see but a lot more He’s very intelligent and interested in lots of health and molecular things There’s a lot to him” And no she didn't find the movie at all sexist oe rolesP She said she’s been fascinated with music since childhood growing up In Tbmei has another film in Brooklyn in an the can called Anger Man- old Victorian house where agement due out next year in which she with Jack Nicholson and Adam Sandler I asked how she got along with the two actors “Adam is very very funny and so intelligent” said Tomei “He’s sweet and kind” And Nicholson? “He doesn't play ‘the movie star’ and is very respectful to women” she said Jack is an artist with a lot of style and great energy— as if there’s a firecracker in his pants” D the formidable (and also nominated) Sissy Spacek Includes 4a the Tomei went to Boston World Time 1983-8- 5 University but when she Supermomfa scored a small nde in the Daughter 1987 4 mate The Flamingo Kid Different in the early ’80s she World 1987-8- 8 Parker transferred to New York felnlslk her father a lawyer and co-sta- Kane WO My in ManhatOwn Country University 1998 Only tan in order to audition Love 1998 for acting jobs One of her earliest roles was on TV in A Different i in apartment flights Born Dec 4 And she was about the in 1964 talking Brooklyn NY Sept 27 release erf her new film Single a dark comedy directed by actor - Films: Fisher Stevens called JustaKiss Include The “It’s got a wonderful cast” Flamingo Kid 1984 The Toxic said Tomei “My character is a Avenger 1985 random girl in New York —a (hear 199 My Coutin Vinny little hottie you goto bed with Chaplin but she turns out to be kind of 1992 Untamed Heart 1993 inane And there’s a one-nigThe Paper stand that goes bad It’s a com1994 Only You 1994 The edy with a little music so I get Perez Family to sing and dance a biL But I 1995 Unhook don’t think they really used the Stare 1996 Slumaot my talents as much as they Beverly Hillt 1968 Happy might have” Accident That’s Marisa speaking her 2000 The mind And I guess she’s entiWatcher MOO What tled The kid won an Oscar in Women Want 2000 Dirk and 1993 as Best Supporting Betty 2000 Actress for My Cousin Vinny InthaBedroom 200 Someone and most recently was nomiLike You 200 nated for In the Bedroom in Juat a Kite which she held her own with 2002 jet-lagg-ed Tomei keep an Include Daughter a World as Lisa Bonet’s B85 Walt ' Until Dark roomie Her first major part in 1998 We a Hollywood film was in a WoiftPaylWe Won't Pay! Sylvester Stallone flop called 1999 Oscar More recently she wss m What Women Want getting to her mother a teacher were very much into swing dancing 1 took dance classes when I was 11 or so” said Tomei “Earlier I'd been more into gymnastic Music wss in my parents' For receptive” Tomei vMt flick aa mttap With” rHoroGaAPHBruAttumzHuaaYDAaKYLUDiiAF-FmDEa Foaumm makeut by vanessa scMJFoaAxmTsar TIMOTHY FKIANO: SWUNG MY VBKBT COUCHES FOB CELESITNE TOT tY DONNA KAKAN FOB SAKS FIFTH AVENUE - w T MOB SS- - im MQS-ftUUD- : lives and In the house Now I do dance leaaons because it's fun It keeps you fit and it makes you emotionally S |