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Article: CLAIRE-VOYANT; NOW IN `MOD' MODE, DANES BALANCES FILM CAREER WITH YALE, LIFE IN NEW YORK.(L.A. LIFE)

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March 28, 1999
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Byline: Bob Strauss Daily News Film Writer

Claire Danes has always seemed wise beyond her years.

From the unusually self-aware high schooler she played on the ahead-of-its-time TV dramedy ``My So-Called Life'' to the smart, sensitive teens she's created in such films as ``Home for the Holidays,'' ``Little Women,'' ``Romeo + Juliet'' and ``To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday,'' Danes has specialized in girls who act markedly more mature than most of the adults around them.

Now, just shy of her 20th birthday, Danes is doing one of pop culture's key kids in a grown-up world. She's Julie Barnes in the big-screen version of ``The Mod Squad,'' that ...

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