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Cll 10VIES Sunday, October 30, 1994 THE DESERT SUN Actor ponders life after Ferris Busller Spader scouts new territory 'Stargate' SCIENCE FICTION: Actor known for dark, dramatic roles branches out to different genre. 1 By YARDENA ARAR Los Angeles Dally News LOS ANGELES Snooty preppies, back-stabbing Hopkins and was excited about working with director Alan Parker on an elaborate period production. But he has mixed feelings about the film, especially the abundance of gastrointestinal comedy. "I like it very much, and I liked the he said, slowly. "I don't like all the scatological stuff as much as some people.

I've never found that stuff all that funny, really. But I think a lot of the situations are very funny it's just, there could be a little less doodle, I guess, forme." "Wellville," which was filmed on location in New Paltz, N.Y., and on sets in Wilmington, N.C., started a busy year for Broderick. When it wrapped, he began work on his directorial debut, "Infinity," a film biography of physicist Robert Feyneman for which Broderick's mother, Patricia, wrote the screenplay. Broderick also stars in the film, which finished principal photography just before rehearsals for "How to Succeed." He hopes to edit between the Dec. 3 conclusion of the play's La Jolla run and its Washington, D.C., premiere in mid-January.

job at 19 and played teen-agers well into his 20s. These days Broder-ick's 32 he is more typically cast as twenty-somethings, such as the corporate ladder-climbing hero he's currently portraying in the La Jolla Playhouse revival of "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying." Over the years, Broderick has appeared in an impressive assortment of critical and commercial hits, from "War "Ladyhawke" and "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" to "Torch Song Trilogy," "Biloxi Blues" and "The Freshman." But he counts his adult roles on the fingers of one hand: the commander of a regiment of African-American Civil War soldiers in "Glory," and most recently, the romantic lead a Greenwich Village cheese counter man in "The Night We Never Met." "But that movie was a low-budget, independent film, so having me in it helped get it made," Broderick said. The opportunity to play an older character was one reason Broderick signed on for he also liked the book, his co-stars Bridget Fonda, John Cusack and Anthony 'WELLVILLE' STAR: Matthew Broderick, 32, hopes new movie dispels twentysomething image. By YARDENA ARAR Los Angeles Dally News LOS ANGELES In an industry known for its obsession with youth, Matthew Broderick is trying to act older. Or at least, more his age.

And in "The Road to Wellville," he actually does, co-starring as Will Lightbody, an Edwardian husband roped by bis adored, health-nut wife into an extended stay at Dr. John Harvey Kellogg's famed Battle Creek, sanatorium. Road to Wellvme" is playing at the Courtyard 10 in Palm Springs and the Cinema 10 in Palm Desert.) Lightbody is a recovering alcoholic trying to save his marriage while undergoing a tortuous cure for chronic indigestion; if anything, Broderick looks younger than the character as described in the novel by T. Coraghassan Boyle. That's a definite departure for Broderick, who got his first acting yuppies, anguished lovers on screen, James Spader's pretty face almost always conceals a touch of moral ambiguity, if not outright decay.

Typecast early on as a handsome, aristocratic bounder, Spader broke away from the pack with his acclaimed 1989 performance as the voyeuristic wanderer in "sex, lies, and videotape." Since then, he has played a number of romantic leads, but even in his most sensual roles the young upscale widower who falls for an over-40 fast-food waitress in "White Palace," or the architect whose wife isn't what she seems in "Dream Lover" Spader's sex appeal is tempered by darker notes. SpcW to 1b DMrt Sun LEADING KEN: James Spader (left) Is happy to share center stage with Kurt Russell in "Stargate." appeared mostly in psychological dramas, says he's as surprised as his fans might be to see himself in a big-budget, high-profile film geared toward the youth market. "It's certainly the first film I've made that I've even seen the possibility that I might be on a lunch box," Spader said wryly. "It's never really been in my realm of comprehension, because merchandising doesn't have anything to do with acting. (But) movies of that sort, I just have always thought that they looked like a tremendously fun way to spend a couple of months, the making of something like that.

And it was." Spader was particularly fired by Emmerich's commitment to filming as much of "Stargate" as possible on real locations and elaborate sets, including an enormous pyramid, a primitive, tiered village built in the middle of the Arizona desert "It really wasn't, 'Stay in front of the blue screen and then we'll fill in everything Spader said. "A good majority of the stuff you see on the screen is happening, and there. And we were able to witness and watch it and be part of it." He's never starred in a big commercial tut or played a straight-ahead hero, much less the white knight of a science-fiction epic. But there he is, sharing top billing with Kurt Russell in Roland Emmerich's "Stargate" as Egyptologist Daniel Jackson, a scholar who joins a military scouting party sent to investigate a mysterious world at the far end of the galaxy. is playing at the Courtyard 10 in Palm Springs and the Cinema 10 in Palm Desert.) 3 Jackson turns out to be not only the brains but the conscience of the expedition; he also has an oddball sort of romance.

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