Yale Bait

Sly virgin. While Don Johnson and Virginia Madsen were

burning rubber in the backseat of Dennis Hopper's The Hot Spot, Jennifer Connelly captured the Cracker Jacks by maintaining her maidenhood. Now a Yale junior, Connelly was a child when she first appeared on-screen, in Sergio Leone's Once upon a Time in America.Since then she has certainly sprouted, lowering her tresses for David Bowie in Labyrinth,and making moves with Frank Whaley in John Hughes's Career Opportunities.

Next she trades glares with the glowering Timothy Dalton in Disney's new action flick,

The Rocketeer. "It doesn't give me any particular thrill to see myself on-screen, says Connelly. But the camera seems to get a special twinge.

JAMES WOLCOTT