Peck's Bad Boy

Adrian Pasdar met Cecilia Peck while filming Torn Apart, yet another Romeo-andJuliet riff, this time set in Tel Aviv. Pasdar is the Israeli soldier who falls for the passionate Arab girl portrayed by Peck. In real life Pasdar and Peck, the daughter of Gregory, also became lovers. Peck possesses the anguished angular beauty of an American Magnani; Pasdar—dangerously sexy—is Tom Cruise without the crease in his pants. Next month he stars in Twentieth Century Fox's med-school charmer, Vital Signs. (His past films: Top Gun, Cookie, Made in U.S.A., Streets of Gold, and Kathryn Bigelow's erotic vampire thriller, Near Dark.) Because of his profession in Vital Signs, Pasdar halted his hated cigarette habit. Healthy acting choice. Healthy careers.

KEVIN SESSUMS