Marisa-mania

Her breakthrough came last spring inMy Cousin Vinny:she was the Brooklyn-bred unemployed hairdressermechanic cast opposite Joe Pesci. Now Marisa Tomei is busy, lending her sex appeal, warmth, and WLgiggly wit to Sir Richard Attenborough'sChaplin, Alan Rudolph'sEquinox,and Tony Bill'sUntamed Heart. A twentysomething Boston University dropout—her precise age is, of course, a closely held secret no dignified magazine would think to expose—-Tomei says her heroine is comedy legend Lucille Ball. InChaplin,she portrays another comedy legend, silent-screen star Mabel Normand. But right now the Flat bush native is not thinking about her work in the movie: she's thinking about meeting Queen Elizabeth at the f ilm's world premiere in London. "I am not kidding! I would not joke about something like that. They say that if the (Queen tells you three times that she likes something of yours the protocol is you have to give it to her. " she says."I'm wearing all paste. "

JAMES COLLINS