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MANILA

Finally the call comes. A US spook-pack will meet

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only meatballs and beer, and we’re about to order

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nicolas cageWORDS BY JORDAN RIEFE • PHOTOGRAPHY BY KATE CALLEN/UPI • 9/11 IMAGES: AP

Nicolas Cage flicks me a grimace, those cold eyes seeking the soul in mine, trying to sense my purpose in the question. Lord of war? I struggle to remind myself there is no Uzi in the satchel beside him. And then the moment passes as the enigmatic actor shrugs. "Yeah," he sighs, "making that movie hurt"...

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Q: There was a sense of art imitating life when you did Weather Man...

A: At the time I agreed to do The Weather Man I was going through a

divorce and I was trying to figure out how I could take a negative and turn it into a positive. And when I received the script

for The Weather Man, I thought, ‘Oh well, here’s a parallel.’ Sometimes I choose

movies that help me, like a therapy, help me do something positive with a negative

emotion. And The Weather Man was an opportunity to take this well of feeling that I had and just funnel it into Dave

Spritz. It was my producing partner who brought it to me and I said, ‘This is really

right for me at this time because I have a lot of stuff I want to get out.’ Dave and I were going through similar experiences

and so it became an overlay, if you will, of my life and David Spritz’s.

Q: How many times have things been thrown at you?

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anything thrown at me; at least not food. There have been times in the past when

girls have thrown glasses at me.Q: How much cash do you normally carry in

your wallet?A: Do you want to come and look? You

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20 packages of Gillette shavers. I buy in bulk. And I used one this morning.

Q: How difficult was it to play someone fum-bling through fatherhood?

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connection with our father because we are small in the beginning and they’re big so

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ture so he’s very, very smart. So I was always thinking how I can aspire to be him? There was this intimidating aura growing up with a university professor, but yes, I did use my

own feelings about my own father.Q: There’s a scene where you’re recognized

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/SPORT 64 All Blacks’ Build-up

They've cruised to victory so far, but can the AB’s hold

their edge?

/MARINE 66Eye Of The TigerA shark’s eye has

an eerie ability to pin you from any angle,

but diving an 18th century brigantine in the corals off North Australia is perhaps

the last place you want to catch a tiger

shark’s orb just as you drift around a

corner in the current...

/DRIVE 70Alfa’s New Brera

See below, without the tree

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There is a sense of mystery – a‘Master and Commander’

aura, even – to the idea of divingancient Spanish, Portuguese and

British shipwrecks off the northerncoast of Australia. But the Barrier

Reef is a treacherous place for seacrafteven today, and in waters teeming with

sharks and the occasional salt-water croc it does occur to me that I should

have added ‘madness’ to the aforementioned ‘mystery’

and ‘aura’...

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hrough the fog in-side my dive mask, which is suctioned to my face so hard that my nose feels like a bulldog’s, I wink stinging

salt out of one eye and peer down through the water at a wrinkled brain the size of a foot stool. Nearby is a handful – so to speak – of Dead Man’s Fingers. Not far from that is a healthy patch of Creamsicle-colored fire coral that I suddenly realize, due to the downward swing of a Pacific Ocean swell, is only a few perilous centimetres from my belly.

In a frenzy of kicking flippers, I shoot away to safety, just missing the fire coral’s nasty sting.

Clutching tote board and pencil, counting coral like a salty census official, I’m having a remarkably good time. Really. The brain and the descriptively named purple “fingers” are types of coral, by the way. But it is the sight of old timbers – the skel-eton of a British brigantine, Perse-phone, which grounded here back in 1803 – that really has my focus.

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LIKE A SCALDED ALLEY CAT

There is a moment, for all drivers at some point in their lives, when the stomach mus-

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– as your rubber jettisons its already flimsy hold on the tarmac – you wonder whether

investing in those el-cheapo imported tyres last year was really such a bargain after

all. Mercifully, as I spin Alfa Romeo's new Brera through the Desert Road's hairpin bends

before powering down those achingly beautiful snow-banked straights, it isn't a moment

I have to reacquaint myself with. The guy following behind me, on the other hand…

FROM ALFA TO BRERA IN 6.8S

I t's the growl from a quartet of chromed tailpipes, and the pistol-like

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are back in the performance business. You don't so much learn about

the Brera as absorb it through every nerve ending in your body: 191

kW of thrust poured out in a vehicle which, frankly, should be illegal

and probably is in California. >>>

By Cameron Douglas

/ONSCREEN 56The Next Three Days

Film review

/BOOKCASE 58The Origins of Zero

This and more as Michael Morrissey reviews

the latest titles

/NOTPC 60 Man or Mouse?

Amy Brooke blasts the bureaucrats

/THEQUESTION 92If the answer is not "42"...

Matt Flannagan debates the meaning of Life

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