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Date Posted: 07:40:36 10/26/01 Fri
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LANCE: "You pulled back." Joey: "Did not." Lance: "Did to." Joey: "Whatever."
Lance Bass and Joey Fatone - two of the members of *NSYNC not dating Britney Spears - were arguing in a Beverly Hills hotel suite over their acting
techniques in "On the Line," a teenybopper romantic confection opening tomorrow.
Apparently, these rookies take acting plenty seriously.
"I'm one of those critical people who hates seeing musicians cross over into acting and embarrass themselves," Bass said. "That's what I definitely do not
want to do."
If your 8- to 16-year-old daughter says she doesn't like *NSYNC, she is probably lying. The band's latest album, "Celebrity," sold 1.9 million copies in
its first week.
Why movies? Bass, 22 and single, and Fatone, a 24-year-old father of one, were doing fine at their day jobs. "We have every opportunity in the world
right now," Bass said. "I want to take advantage of that and live out a dream I've had since I was a little kid."
In "On the Line," Bass plays the lead, who falls for raven-haired cutie Emmanuelle Chriqui on Chicago's "L" train, only to watch her disappear without
getting her number.
Reading about his romantic exploits in a tabloid, the city cheers him on as he and his buddies try to find her. Fatone, the scruffy baritone in the band, plays
the flatulent best friend.
There is nothing stereotypically country about the Mississippi-born Bass, the bass in the group. If you squint, he looks like the Yankees' Derek Jeter. If
you listen to him, he is Donald Trump.
While filming "On the Line," he also was recording and producing "Celebrity" and running a management company that finds movie vehicles for athletes
and musicians.
Now he is producing a Holocaust drama about a pianist, called "The Children of Willesden Lane," and he announced plans to open a club in Manhattan.
Bass is a conglomerate in frosted hair. He said he feels overwhelmed at times, but plugs on, cell phone glued to his ear.
He gravitated to the money side after the band's former manager, Lou Pearlman, sued the band for $150 million after it bolted for another label.
(*NSYNC claimed it was not seeing its fair share of the profits.) The two parties settled out of court.
Naturally, Bass will be watching the new film's box-office receipts closely.
"Of course, we'll be looking at them," he said. "A success to us is that our fans see it. I don't know what the expectations are. I can't put a number on it."
Fans won't, however, see the splashy choreography the group is known for. In front of the camera, director Eric Bross encouraged them to take subtler
steps.
"I was happily surprised," Bross said. "Because they perform in front of thousands of screaming girls, they have incredible discipline and poise."
Sorry, girls, there's something else you won't see in this or any other upcoming *NYSNC movie. "No nude scenes," says Fatone
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