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othing pleases Jeff
Goldblum more than
working close to his com-
fortable home with a view
in Hollywood Hills.
He gets to sleep in his own bed
every night, and he also gets to play
piano once a week in a progressive
jazz group called the Mildred Snitzer
Orchestra at The Lounge, a funky Los
Angeles hot spot.
There, he's frequently joined
onstage by jazz trumpeter Peter
Weller, a close friend since they co-
starred in The Adventures of Buckaroo

Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension.
But Goldblum, 50, doesn't com-
plain when acting jobs — his "other
obsession" — come along to break up
his sets. And War Stories, a two-hour
action-drama telefilm and series pilot
airing Jan. 29 on NBC, ruined several
Wednesday night jam sessions.
War Stories revolves around a group
of war correspondents covering a fic-
tional civil war in Uzbekistan, not
unlike the one in neighboring
Afghanistan, with ruthless al-
Qaida/Taliban-supported rebels bat-
tling ineffective and demoralized gov-
ernment troops propped up by U.S.
forces.
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Goldblum portrays Ben Dansmore,
a tough, resourceful reporter for a
Baltimore newspaper seasoned by cov-
ering hostilities around the globe for a
couple of decades. His cohorts in the
minefield include a naive, inexperi-
enced photographer (Lake Bell), a
randy British freelance writer (Gayle
Lombard) who is not above using sex
to gain access to newsmakers and an
egomaniacal TV newsman.

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"I read a lot of books, saw a couple . of
documentaries on the subject, spent a
little time with (TV war veteran)
David Halberstam and talked to a
longtime war correspondent for the
Los Angeles Times — who in some
ways is not unlike my character, a
brilliant, focused, hardworking and

dedicated reporter still idealistic and
noble," Goldblum said.
"It takes an unusual person to put
his life on the line for a job, one that
doesn't necessarily pay a lot of
money."
The film was shot completely in the
Los Angeles area.
"I've never been to Uzbekistan, but
our sets looked close enough to the
real locations I've seen in pictures,"
Goldblum said. "And the shooting
went quite smoothly, without cultural
and communications clashes with the
natives."'
Goldblum recently finished a short
run Off-Broadway in The Exonerates;
playing a man on death row who is
wrongly convicted of murder.
Then he returned to Los Angeles in
time to resume his duties as an acting
teacher at Playhouse West in North
Hollywood. He already had the
• upcoming motion picture Dallas 362
(directed by Scott Caan, the son of
James Caan) and the Showtime tele-
film Spinning Boris in the can.
"I love Spinning Boris, the true story
of three American spin doctors secret-
ly hired in Moscow to run Boris
Yeltsin's last political campaign," he
said, laughing.
"Working in Toronto with a direc-
tor like Roger Spottiswoode and a
bunch of terrific actors, including
Leiv Schreiber and Anthony LaPaglia,
was really fun.
"It was fascinating to find out how
these hotshot campaign managers
helped manipulate the Russian media.
I play George Gorton, a guy who
once worked on California Gov. Pete
Wilson's campaigns."
Last seen in the critically well-
received movie Igby Goes Down —
with fellow cast members Susan
Sarandon, Bill Pullman, Ryan
Philippe and Claire Danes —
Goldblum has maintained a high pro-
file in the motion picture industry for
more than 25 years with such projects
as Nashville (1975), Annie Hall
(1977), Invasion of the Body Snatchers

(1978), The Big Chill (1983), The
Right Stuff (1983), Into the Night
(1985), The Fly (1986), The Lost
World: Jurassic Park (1997) and

