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Article: WHY THIS MONTE ISN'T FULL; Jim Caviezel applies his familyvalues to `The Count'
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- Daily Breeze
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- January 25, 2002
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Don't count on "The Count of Monte Cristo," or any film starring
Jim Caviezel, to contain nudity or graphic sex. The rising star of
Hollywood hits and dozens of drooling Internetfan sites is a devout
Roman Catholic who says his faith forbids him from getting randy on
camera.
"I don't think it'sright," says Caviezel, who opens, today, in the
12th cinematic adaption of Alexandre Dumas' 1844 novel. Speaking in a
suite at Marina Del Rey's Ritz-Carlton Hotel, his characteristically
neutral stare turns frownish.
"Inmy faith, I'm taught that abstinence is important," says the 33-
year-old Washington State native with the strange last name who,
since being plucked from nowhere to star in 1998's "The ...