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THE VANCOUVER SUN, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2001 B13 Jason Lee gets off board to play it for laughs K- if n- Lynne McNamara -Mr -mi HJEics assail ENTERTAINMENT. i i -Commit" to woman moans to trust ond confida hi. 1 4X Commit" fa a man meant TT 7 THElWW Only to Dec 19 i HOUSE Meredith Book, music and lyrics by Meredith Willson Story by Meredith Willson and Franklin Lacey I STARRING Tues, December 18, 8 pm Wed, December 19, 2 8pm 25 OUT OF 35 SHOWS SOLD OUT! "Jeff Hyslop's dancing is transcendent. He glides, "Broadway comes to Vancouver" CBC "The Music Man makes any day shine." "Director Michael Shamata takes an already solid musical and makes it soar so beautifully that until I can get back to NYC, this is all the Broadway I need." The Vancouver Sun in Focus, which opens Friday. CALLTICKETMASTER 6042803311 www.ticketmaster.ca SPONSORED BY: MEDIA SPONSORS: TTELUS radio TheVancoutosun 2 All performances at Hamilton Dunsmuir Meredith Willson's The Music Man Is presented through special arrangement with and all authorized performance materials are supplied by Music-Theatre international, 4E1 West 54th Street, New York, NY 10019 Tel: (212) S41-4G84 Fax: (212) 397-4684 www.MTIShows.com Support Professor Harold Hill's Kiisical Instruct Rising Presume Visit www.vancouverplayhouse.com for details OCEANS ELEVEN (NO PASSES) 4:18 7:10 OCEAN'S ELEVEN (NO MSSES) 12:30 1:00 2:00 3:15 3:46 5 00 6: 7:40 06 9-20 10:15 mXttWENTM.

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The southern California native had turned his childhood passion into a career, even popularizing a move called the "360 flip." "I didn't know what else I was going to do and that happened and it's been going ever since yeah, uphill ever since, I guess," he admits as we chat between shots at the dining room table of a Shaughnessy mansion-turned-movie-set for Lee's latest the romantic comedy, A Guy Thing. Lee plays a guy who wakes up from his bachelor party in bed with a young woman (Julia Stiles) to whom he's not engaged. "He's your typical sweet, kind-hearted fella who just can't quite find his place and he's not the best liar. Fortunately, his fiance (Selma Blair) is a bit dim so he's getting away with more than he thought he would be able to." Lee now seems to have made the move to the mainstream he stars as Tom Cruise's best pal in Vanilla Sky (opening on Friday) and appears to be on a comedy roll with parts in Heart-breakers with Sigourney Weaver and Jennifer Love Hewitt, the upcoming Barry Sonnenfeld film, Big Trouble, and Imagine Entertainment's The Promise with Tom Green. And for someone who admits he began playing the fool as early as kindergarten "I was always goofy and very much the smart-ass class clown" let's turn as funnyman isn't right out of left field.

"It just sort of happened that way. I just take it as it comes, ya know. I like that I've just been cast for what people feel Fm right for, so I don't think I'll ever have to worry about being Mr. Comedy and always trying to be funny or having to be funny. I just sort of do what roles require of me." It was during the Vanilla Sky shoot last winter when stars Cruise and Nicole Kidman's marriage imploded, but Lee, who worked sporadically over the five-month shoot, says he wouldn't have known what Cruise was going through unless he'd been told.

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S11-1K0 GROUP SALES: SKMNAX (4tO) Jason Lee (right) and Tom Cruise appear I not known, I wouldn't have known just by being on the set and being around him. He's a very outgoing, energetic, enthusiastic, professional person. And he was also the producer of a very big movie and the lead. He worked every day. I wouldn't have known didn't show at all." Vanilla Sky was Lee's second experience working with music-journalist-turned-film-director Cameron Crowe.

In Crowe's earlier film, Almost Famous, Lee plays rock singer Jeff Bebe. "It was fun," says Lee, but at the same time it was kind of intense because we knew it was something different for Cameron. And in a way, something different for all of us. I don't think I had done anything quite like that and I knew it was important for me and I wanted to do a really good job. And I think everybody kind of knew that something different was being made.

Something incredibly unique and important. All the while, of course, was incredibly happy to be there and to have had the part written for me." Next, Lee moves over to another Vancouver-shot film, Lawrence Kasdan's The Dreamcatcher (from the Stephen King novel) in January. He'll play one of four childhood pals who go on a hunting trip, only to become the hunted. But first, he has a whole month off. And what'U he do? "Sleep, enjoy not having to get up at a specific time every day," he says with a sweet smile.

IS IT FINAL? New Line Cinema's teen horror sequel, Final Destination II, is in prep this month and next and will go to camera here in mid-February. Vancouver's Devon Sawa, who played a young man who could predict deaths in the original, a surprise hit at the box office, will not return for the sequel, but Ali Larter reprises her role, 3 We tell you everything except how it ends. MOV IK Fridays in Tin: VN( Si'N mm. Tickets showtimes available at cinemark.com Call 604-33-11 -SUN for Home Delivery. Lord 01 ThtRlnge Advance Tlckete Now Available HARRVPOTTEn' AND THE miLOsbPHER's STONE No PlKM (PGIrlotiWmlng moot (On 3 Screens) Wed.

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6:46,10 00 starring with newcomer Andrew Downing and Tony Todd. David Ellis, who came to know our streets and alleys well while helming Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco, will direct. JOE AIRS If you ever wondered what happened to the sweet little flick, Beautiful Joe, shot here in the summer of 2000 and starring Sharon Stone, Billy Connelly, Ian Holm, Gil Bellows and Vancouver actors Frank C. Turner, Sheila Paterson, Connor Widdows and Barbara Tyson it never did make it to the big screen. But you can catch it on TV's Movie Central Dec.

20 at 11 p.m. and Dec. 21 at 7 p.m. ARE YOU PARANORMAL? If you're an unthreateningly cute, obviously smart 15- to 20-year-old who looks 15, has a sunny disposition and a great sense of humour have we got a part for you! Vancouver casting directors Coreen Mayrs and Heike Brandstatter are looking for a gal with a flair for the lead role in TouchstoneABC's upcoming TV pilot, Paranormal Girl, shooting next March in Los Angeles. You can drop in to their open casting call Sunday anytime between 2 and 5 p.m.

in the Robson Room of the Pacific Palisades Hotel, 1277 Robson St. No appointment or preparation necessary. lmmybc.com The Backlot appears Wednesday and Saturday. 3:50, 4:45, 7:00. 7:40.

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