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...bent on ruling the cyberworld. He holds conferences with three advisers--a steely general, a bald scientist and a blissed-out hippie--all played by the one actor. Sylvester Stallone is simply the guest villain of Robert Rodriguez's 3-D video game, but when the veteran star is onscreen, this Spy Kids plays like Sly Kids...
...them, moving from state to state. Often he was so nervous he threw up in the morning before school. Then everything changed. He was in junior high, and his mom wanted him to take a drama class. She bribed him with $100. After that, it was commercials--his first onscreen performance was in an Atari ad--and TV shows like Blossom and Walker, Texas Ranger, then movies. His last year of formal schooling was ninth grade...
...that discipline pays off onscreen. Maguire is one of the world-champion under-actors. He never overdoes a scene, never overplays a reaction, never bullies you into feeling an emotion he doesn't earn. "One of the things that distinguishes Tobey as an actor is his ability to do more while appearing to do less," says Hanson, who directed him in Wonder Boys. Look at him once, and it's hard to tell he's even acting. His face barely seems to have a muscle in it. But you can't look at him once. There's something alert...
Once there was lots more going on. In the '30s and '40s, when everyone (not just dateless teen boys) went to films, the sexes were equal onscreen. Men and women used to swap banter, fall in love, solve dilemmas together, share top billing. And women could anchor hits, big ones. Gone With the Wind, depicting a Southern belle's struggles and whims, was Hollywood's top grosser for 26 years--until another women's film, The Sound of Music, matched it. Even the current "all time" champ, Titanic, is at heart a shipboard love story. Yet Hollywood is reluctant...
...previous roles, is in virtually every scene, a fact that caused him some real discomfort. "I usually don't mind watching movies I'm in," he says, "but in this, there's just so much of me I can't take a breather and relax while other people are onscreen...