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Scared Chiklis
NO ORDINARY FAMILY’S MICHAEL CHIKLIS ON HIS EMBARRASSING
EARLY ROLES AND MAINTAINING HIS ROCK-HARD ASS.
Everybody’s been comparing
this show to Heroes and The
Incredibles, which must be
annoying. Do you want to fi nally
put those comparisons to rest?
Yeah, it’s an unfair comparison.
There have been 475,000 cop
shows, yet they’ll make 10 new
ones a year without even batting
an eye. As far as superhero
shows are concerned, I don’t
even think we’ve gotten to a
dozen yet in TV history. No
Ordinary Family is its own thing.
Your character has super
strength. Do you spend crazy
hours in the gym?
Well, he’s a middle-aged
Film Checkup
SIFTING THROUGH THE CINEMATIC HEAP.
CATCH
THIS
FLICK
48 MAXIM NOVEMBER 2010
Saw 3D
As a deadly battle rages over Jigsaw’s
legacy, a group of his survivors
join a man who just may be responsible
for a new wave of terror.
Hereafter
Clint Eastwood’s latest tells the unset-
tling story of three strangers who’ve
all come close to death and whose
lives mysteriously intersect. Spooky!
Danny Boyle’s 127 Hours recounts the true
story of Aron Ralston (James Franco), the
dude who got his arm stuck under a boulder
while mountain-climbing and had to chop it
off with a dull knife. Give him a hand!
everyman, so it’s not appropriate
for him to be Herculean. Just
to survive this thing, I’m gonna
need to stay fi t and in shape, but
I want to keep it accessible. At its
core this is a family show more
than anything else.
Your (male) costar Romany
Malco said your butt is hard as
a rock. What’s up with that?
Romany has a tendency to
pinch me down there once in a
while. It’s an odd thing.
Did you have any bad gigs early
on in your career?
There are defi nite credits on my
résumé I wish weren’t there, and
Unstoppable
When a train with toxic liquids threatens
to wipe out a city, an engineer
(Denzel Washington) and a conductor
(Chris Pine) try to prevent disaster.
LAUGH
OUT
LOUD OUD
POWER UP
TUESDAYS
ON ABC!
of course, you’re gonna make me
mention them, aren’t you?
Of course.
Let me think. I was in a movie
called Soldier. Oy. Not OK.
And the Miami Vice TV show?
If I remember correctly, I played
an art thief. It was one of my fi rst
roles ever—a long time ago. I had
to dress up in drag. Wait—I had to
dress up like a Haitian woman to
try to escape and get across the
border, to get on a ship.
Did you get away?
No! Crockett busted me.
—Alison Prato
WE SEE
DEAD PEOPLE
DEATH MACHINES
SURVIVOR
SUPPORT GROUP
Kristen Stewart takes out her fangs to
play a teenage prostitute who forms a
strange relationship with James Gandolfi ni
in Welcome to the Rileys.
Bada-awkward!
A NON-3D
MOVIE!?
OSCAR WINNER
PRESENT
CLOWN
THIS!
UNDEAD ARE TAKING OVER
ON THE WALKING DEAD.
On Halloween Shawshank director
Frank Darabont’s frightfest about
humans in a zombie apocalypse hits
AMC. Here he tells us why to watch.
The Walking Dead Is No
Laughing Matter.
“This isn’t a comedy. I loved Shaun of the
Dead and Zombieland, but we’re tapping
into the scariest aspects of having
corpses brought back to life and feeding
on fl esh, how living in that world can tear
people apart emotionally.”
The Story Transcends
the Horror…
“Robert Kirkman, who created the comic
book series, developed so many
compelling characters. I hope people get
invested in them and our story. TV brings
so much room to develop the series
beyond basic horror.”
…But That Doesn’t Mean the
Horror Is Lost.
“I always say: If you’re making a
western, you need cowboy hats and
six-shooters. We’re making a zombie
show, so we need to have ripping of
fl esh and zombie attacks. You can’t not
deliver that.”—Matt Barone
OUR TAKE
SELF-INFLICTED
MUTILATION PRESENT
Who wouldn’t want to watch a
movie where Captain Kirk and
Malcolm X try to save the world…
especially when action superdirector
Tony Scott is at the helm?
The fi nal chapter in one of the most
grisly and gory horror franchises of
all time promises to be the grisliest
and goriest of all, thanks to a pair of
dorky wannabe Ray-Bans.
Like a fi ne wine (or Helen Mirren),
Eastwood gets better with age. With
actors who can do more than just
scream, this thriller will be a refuge
from the typical Halloween fare.
Get over your fear of carnies with Circus,
PBS’s unblinking look at what it takes to
run the world’s best traveling show, the
Big Apple Circus. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry,
you’ll get a jones for cotton candy!