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By Stephen Schaefer
Found here
Above all, ``Wedding Crashers'' is a confirmation of the starry charms of Vince Vaughn.
With divorce mediator Jeremy Grey alongside Owen Wilson's fellow divorce mediator and wedding crasher, this film has an inspired partnership that recalls the nuttiness of Bob Hope and Bing Crosby.
Both Vaughn and Wilson are bachelors in real life. But what would it take to get Vaughn serious enough to have his own wedding?
``Pretty. That's good. Funny is good. Smart is good,'' he said.
Would he want a prenup?
``That's good. Why do we have to label this thing we have?''
As for why he hasn't settled down, he said, ``You know, people have said that to me a lot. They've said, `Vince, do you feel like you've missed the boat on some relationships?' Or they say, `Vince, you have missed the boat on some relationships.' I say, `Well, you're right. I can't split hairs with you. I think that I have missed the boat in some relationships. But the good news is that I look out into the harbor and there are more boats coming in every day. And some of the new boats are beautiful.' ''
Like Wilson, Vaughn knows what he wouldn't want at his own wedding.
``I can't hear `Shout.' I can't hear that anymore. You hear it so many times in this movie. At first you kind of like it because it's a fun song, and then you're like, `Oh God, really? We're going to shout?' Plus, it's like 2 in the morning and now you have to go scream and shout. It's exhausting.''
Hollywood is betting ``Wedding Crashers,'' with a buzz that suggests a box-office behemoth, will cement Vaughn's standing as a major box-office star. So, next up he's getting $12.5 million, a career best, for the romantic comedy ``"The Break-Up",'' with Jennifer Aniston, which is now filming in his hometown of Chicago.
It wasn't that long ago that Vaughn, 35, was starring in flop remakes such as ``Psycho.''
``At a certain point it almost becomes like a report card,'' he said. ``But the thing that I like most is that right away when I got (this clout) to do stuff, I went and set up `"The Break-Up",' which is something that I thought of and something that I'm really creatively behind.''
He came out of nowhere with the low-budget 1996 ``Swingers,'' a cult comedy that established the distinctively Vaughn personality.
``It's funny, because after `Swingers' I got offered a lot of comedies, but I didn't do any because I didn't like a lot of them. The first one that I got that I liked was `Old School.' I really liked that screenplay, but it was weird because the studios didn't see me as a comedian because I hadn't done it in forever. People just kind of remember what you did recently. Now all of a sudden I'm doing comedies, and I'm only getting offered comedies.
``See, for me the fun was kind of like in `Dodgeball,' I was kind of the straight man in that, kind of quieter and reacting. In `Wedding Crashers' I get to swing for the fences. `"The Break-Up"' with Jennifer is a romantic comedy which is a different thing - and pretty broad.''
Vaughn works best when he is allowed input, from improvisatory flights of dialogue to plot points. With Wilson on ``Wedding Crashers,'' he said, ``we really cared about the story of the movie a lot. So you improvise - there's room for that - but a lot of the stuff we kind of knew what we were doing. We would work on it that day or the night before and say, `What's funnier? What's the better way to get there?' And the writers wrote a good script. We had a great starting place because the concept itself was very funny.''
Posted by Christine at July 15, 2005 2:13 AM