Dream Team

Young actors in a league of their own

I here's nothing like a hot young actor to take the chill out of a November evening. Fortunately, the screens are full of them these days. JEFFREY WRIGHT grew up in Washington, D.C., graduated from Amherst College, and promptly made a beeline for the boards, where he's been seen in such important works as Angels in America and Perestroika (for which he won a Tony). Wright breaks through on the big screen in Julian Schnabel's forthcoming Build a Fort, Set It on Fire, in which he stars as artist Jean-Michel Basquiat. California-born GLENN PLUMMER hit the ground acting—in such films as Menace II Society, South Centred, and Speed— and "velocity" has been his career byword ever since. With roles in two new films—including a turn as a political activist/rapper in Kathryn Bigelow's Strange Days and a male lead in Paul Verhoeven's steamy Joe Eszterhas-scripted Showgirls—he won't be slowing down anytime soon, and gets Up Close and Personal with Robert Redford and Michelle Pfeiffer next spring. As the progeny of actor Richard Harris, JARED HARRIS knows what it takes to play the offspring of a famous dad, key to his performance as the son of Dracula in Michael Almereyda's Ncidjci. Harris the Younger, seen in Smoke and its sequel, Blue in the Face, stars next in Dead Man, with Johnny Depp, and I Shot Andy Warhol, as the artist himself. JASON LONDON went from a Dazed and Confused high-school Stoner to a star pupil in Learning Curves, to be released next spring. London then traded in the schoolboy duds to pal around with a trio of drag queens in the recent release To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar. JOSEPH COLEMAN'S first movie role is as a porn star in Woody Allen's Mighty Aphrodite. The six-foot, blond, blue-gray-eyed Bruce Weber model has a look the lens loves to love, which is a good thing, given that he has turned heads as a guest stud on the soap Loving.

Love 'em or leave 'em.

JAN BRESLAUER