Eugene Levy: action hero? Uh, not quite. Although the SCTV vet — best known for the American Pie movies as well as being one of Christopher Guest's go-to guys — does a little running and a bit of jumping in the new action-comedy The Man, he has since decided to leave such heroics to pros such as costar Samuel L. Jackson.
"I've never been a physical kind of comedian," Levy acknowledges. "All of the physical stuff [in The Man] I tried to make look fairly credible, and give it a bit of a comic spin — if you're running down the alley and getting shot in the ass, you don't want to make it too painful for the a
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At long last, America's curiosity about what a Samuel L. Jackson-Eugene Levy film would be like can be sated. That's right, the man known as Mace Windu aka John Shaft aka Pulp Fiction's proverb-spouting Jules Winnfield is making laughs with no less than the American Pie dad in The Man (opening today). The 48 HRS.-esque action-comedy presents Jackson as Derrick Vann, a Federal Agent who, in the midst of trying to clear the name of his disgraced dead partner, crosses paths with Andy Fiddler, Levy's mild-mannered dental-supply salesman. The very odd couple then must work together to thwart som
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