Article: TAKING AIM IN CAREER AND NEW FILM, 'SHOOTER,' WAHLBERG MIXES ACTION WITH BRAINS.(U)

Byline: Evan Henerson

Staff Writer

A word to the wise: Do not forget a line when you're acting opposite Mark Wahlberg.

No, the 35-year-old star of "Shooter," which opens March 23, and "The Departed" won't slap you around as he might have done back in his hell-raising late teens years in Boston. Uh-uh. Mark Wahlberg, above-the-title star, Oscar nominee and sometimes producer will probably do something far more humiliating.

He'll feed you the line.

"Mark knows the script better than almost everybody. He reads the entire script every single night, and he knows every other character's lines," says "Shooter" producer Lorenzo di ...

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