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EXPOSURE ~ PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG SMACKHEAD

"I am the teen star of teen stars," declares 19-year-old Minnesotan Vincent Kartheiser with typical acidity. "They send me fan mail. The Backstreet Boys? Crazy about me."

Left a bit loopy from having done one too many kid-friendly films you probably don't remember (Alaska, The Indian In The Cupboard), Kartheiser looks to flee the Teen Beat ghetto by playing a gun-crazy, smack-shooting delinquent in January's Another Day In Paradise. The film, director Larry Clark's latest, features Kartheiser being schooled by James Woods and Melanie Griffith in the sordid ways and means of cross-country drug-dealing and pharmacy-boosting. Though the movie feels like a third-generation Drugstore Cowboy, Kartheiser's fluid performance comes highly recommended: He's being hyped as the next Leo. ("I've never heard of him,"deadpans Kartheiser.)

The youngest of six child prodigies, Kartheiser describes himself as an "asshole" who loves guns, sleep, fencing and...alienating people. In fact, he doesn't seem to be bothered in the slightest by the likelihood that his squalid role in Another Day In Paradise - along with his next as a Satan-worshipping teen killer in the upcoming Ricky Six - might discourage some of his current fans. "This one girl wrote me and was like, 'Your role in Alaska made me cry,' " says Kartheiser. He wrote her back, gently suggesting she shoot herself. (A joke, he assures. A Joke.) "That's what I mean when I say I'm an asshole," he says, laughing. "I'm really unsupportive of my fans."


Maureen Callahan
February, 1999


Courtesy of Spin Magazine
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