There is also a large picture that accompanies this article of Catherine and Dermot (the one with his hand on her leg) which can be found in Rebecca's Tidbits.

A COUPLE OF SWELLS

Catherine Keener and Dermot Mulroney met cute, got married, and made a movie about how life isn't like a movie.

They found only romantic success the first time they worked togetther. Dermot Mulroney and Catherine Keener, who have been married nearly five years, met making a movie almost a decade ago. "It was a classic set friendship that develolped into a postwrap romance," says Mulroney, who defers to Keener's wish that the title go unmentioned. "I sucked," she says.

They're far prouder of their second film, Living in Oblivion. Out this month from Johnny Suede director Tom DiCillo, it's a charming and hilarious, though overly episodic, farce about a mishap-plagued low-budget movie. As the luminous lead actress, Keener alternates between forcefulness and insecurity, while Mulroney deftly plays an overzealous cinematographer with a macho exterior and mushy insides.

Of the set, the couple displays a loving antagonism. "Make sure you call him Dylan," says Keener, zestfully poking at the fact that he's often confused with actor Dylan McDermott. Pushed, her spouse compares her career to Where's Waldo? "We're challenging our audience to find Catherine in something," says Mulroney, who's much more visible. He'll appear in Copycat and How to Make an American Quilt later this year, is filming Robert Altman's Kansas City and plays cello for the Low and Sweet Orchestra ("It's the Clash meets Johnny Cash," he says), which is about to release its first album. Keener hardly feels left out. "Catherine has very particular taste in material," her husband says. "It's been a frustrating career for her agents, not her."