In 'Get Smart,' Steve Carell is a man with a mission

 
Bigger and broader is his goal for the big-screen version of the Don Adams TV classic. > STEVE CARELL is sipping coffee as he waits for a director to arrive so they can discuss a possible collaboration to follow "Get Smart," his big-screen star vehicle, which opens June 20. Carell's office du jour serves hash browns and scrambled eggs, and it's even more humble, if that's possible, than the fluorescent box he inhabits as the goofy boss of the NBC hitcom "The Office." Patty's Restaurant, his Toluca Lake neighborhood's zillion-year-old coffee shop, is a suitable setting for a regular guy, albeit one who made $5 million for his starring role in last year's "Evan Almighty." ¶ Regular-guyness is key to Carell's considerable charm. Even his reincarnated Maxwell Smart is a regular guy -- or at least as much of a regular guy as a secret agent who dangles from an aircraft can be. (Carell did that stunt himself, 50 ... (link)

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