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| Even before Kevin Pollak had finished shooting his first starring role, as Aidan Quinn's business partner in the 1990 film Avalon, the calls were coming in. "Suddenly because I did a movie for (Barry) Levinson I became legitimate," says Pollak, 32, a veteran stand-up comic who had gone largely unnoticed in 1987's Million Dollar Mystery and 1988's Willow. Since Avalon, however, he has appeared in L.A. Story (as Steve Martin's agent), and he'll soon star in the romantic comedy Rules of the Game and the cop drama Ricochet, with Denzel Washington. Pollak, who is from San Jose, Calif., will also play half of a 1940s comedy team in Rob Reiner's> CBS summer series Partners in Life. Although Hollywood hasn't yet put him on its romantic-leading-man menu, he's happy to provide comic relief in lovable sidekick roles. "I never get (the girl) in the movies," he says, "but I'm damn funny." |
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