Article: Joseph Gordon-Levitt: with one of the smoothest segues from child actor to leading in recent history, Joseph Gordon-Levitt is proof of what can happen when you break free of the stereotypes and convince others to think out of the box.(Interview)

Joseph Gordon-Levitt may have played the young writer Norman Maclean in Robert Redford's A River Runs Through It (1992), a baseball fan whose prayers are answered in Angels in the Outfield (1994), and a pubescent "IV ET in 3rd Rock From the Sun, all by the time he turned 15, but he is just now hitting his stride. After a hiatus from acting to attend Columbia University, in the last few years he's taken on risky roles in Indie films like Mysterious Skin (2005) and Brick (2006), which showed off his chops and proved to the industry that he can carry a movie. Now he has three big-budget films in the can. The first one to hit theaters is screenwriter Scott Frank's directorial ...

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