PIED PIPER

Name and occupation: Piper Perabo, actress. Age: 22. Provenance: Toms River. Now Jersey. Planning to catapult to fame from out of nowhere in: Whiteboys, starring Danny Hoch, playing the girlfriend of a gangsta-rapping Iowa teenager, and The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle, starring Robert De Niro, Rene Russo, and Jason Alexander. In The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle you play a patriotic F.B.I. agent battling De Niro's sinister Fearless Leader. Were you at all intimidated by his legendary intensity? "At first. I was so stunned I couldn't say anything. But he was very kind to me. He even sat down with me a couple of times and talked about the process:" Why, if she's not careful, Piper may soon be contacted by Vincent Gallo: "What I'd like to do next is a real gritty independent film. I've played the cheery, all-American type, and I like that, but I'd also be happy to get away from her for a while." How a soothsaying techie gave Piper a glimpse of her future: "One day while I was filming Rocky and Bullwinkle, Marvin, the boom op, said. 'You know, your whole life is going to change when this movie comes out." It was so frightening. But, who knows, maybe no one will like me, so I'll have nothing to worry about."

JOHN GILLIES

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