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Seth Green plays Scott Evil
in "Austin Powers: The Spy
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where on occasion he's morphed from
the boy next door into a werewolf. His
movie roles, in addition to his two
turns as Scott Evil, include playing a
young Woody Allen in Radio Days.
Recently, Green was named one of
the happenin' hunks in Teen Celebrity
magazine. But he remains the voice of
reason — at least in his latest film role.
"[Scott Evil's] the guy who says
things nobody usually says to movie
fiends, like, 'Hey, why don't you just
shoot him instead of slowly dipping
him in a pool of ravenous laser-outfit-
ted sharks?" notes Green. "Nobody
else is very understated in this film, so
it's fun to play the straight man."

— Gail Zimmerman
and Michael Elkin

and Austin Powers is honeymooning
with the smashing Vanessa Kensington
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged
(Elizabeth Hurley), but an "explosive"
Me opens today in area theaters.
surprise hurtles him back to swinging
single status. Meanwhile, Dr. Evil
(played by Myers in a dual role) has
returned to Earth from the frozen
recesses of space with a new diabolical
American author Don DeLillo has
scheme io annihilate the world —
been named the recipient of this year's
using a time machine that catapults
Jerusalem Prize, the international literary
him back to 1969. Powers must travel
prize awarded during the Jerusalem
back to the Swinging Sixties to thwart
International Book Fair to
the plot — with the
a writer whose work
help of CIA operative
expresses the theme of
Felicity Shagwell
freedom of the individual
(Heather Graham). It's
in society.
shagadelic, baby!
He is the first
Also returning — on
American to be awarded
the side of wrong — is
the prize, which has
Scott Evil, Dr. Evil's
been given every other
pubescent son, played
year since 1963 to writ-
by Seth Green as a
ers including Milan
model of Generation X
Kundera, Mario Vargas
angst. "Scott's a very,
Llosa, Graham Greene
very confused individ-
and Simone de Beauvoir.
ual as if you can't tell
Born to an Italian
from his clothing,
Catholic family in 1936,
says Green. "I play him
DeLillo grew up in the
Don DeLillo: Jerusalem
as a kid Who is equally
Bronx. In his 11 novels
torn between hating his Prize winner:
(including Americana,
father and having a
White Noise, Libra and
need for a relationship
Underworld), essays and
with him. Everything he does is a cry
plays, he struggles not only with the
for attention."
horrors of reality but also with the
In real life, the Jewish actor's family
sophisticated ways in which atrocities
has been supportive since his childhood
can be distorted and marketed. His
days in Overbrook Park, Pa., when
tools of criticism are irony and sarcas-
Green declared before his bar mitzvah
tic humor, together with precise lan-
at Beth David Reform Congregation,
guage and innovation.
"I want to be an actor-writer-producer-
"DeLillo's work proves the power of
director and comic-book artist."
language and literature to unveil niches
Ironically, now that he's a man,
of intimacy even in the midst of a
Green gives voice to a 13-year-old
crowd, to Frame moments of loneliness,
slacker named Chris on Family Guy,
of fear of death, of empathy and of
Fox's animated series about a severely
memory," declared the panel of judges.
dysfunctional family. That's in addi-
DeLillo will be awarded the Jerusalem
tion to his role as the body-shifting
Prize by Jerusalem Mayor Ehud Olmert
Oz on WB's B45, the Vampire Slayer,
during ceremonies June 23 in Jerusalem.

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