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30/11/01

Finally... When Giovanni Ribisi passed on the nasty-younger-brother-to-Helena Bonham Carter role in Novocaine, he nudged Scott Caan to take over for him. "I love to work, man," Caan says, curled up in a comfy looking chair in a Four Seasons suite. "I'm not really in a position where I get to choose all my roles. I don't get, like, a stack of 10 scripts and then get to choose the one I want to be in." To counter that, Caan, who plays Casey Affleck's brother in Ocean's Eleven, has written a buddy movie about two guys desperate to attend the last party at the Playboy Mansion. It sold for six figures but hasn't gone into production.

Caan's also a budding playwright. His first, Almost Love, which he also directed, followed a guy torn between monogamy and sowing his oats. And the second is 9-11, which goes down on that fateful date and tries to document the reactions of Angelenos to the tragedy. Robert Carnegie directs. "It's a touchy play," Caan says. "It's just satire-ish. I'm trying to make people laugh about something that's not really funny. If you're an artist and you can push those buttons, it's a shame not to." Judge for yourself L.A.-based theater fans: The satire-ish offering hits the boards at Second Studio in North Hollywood beginning December 1.

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