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Perry wears a blazer and pant by Hickey Freeman, shirt by Penguin, tie by Jack Spade, belt by Oakley. * Hair products by Tresemmé. * Fragrance: Reaction by Kenneth Cole.
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Perry Moore wants to take you to a dream world of magic. The 34-year-old
executive producer is responsible -- along with director Andrew Adamson and
producer Mark Johnson -- for The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the
Wardrobe. The movie did so well at the box office that Disney green-lit Prince
Caspian, the second film in the series based on the C.S. Lewis books. That film
should land in theaters in 2007, the same year that Moore's first novel hits
bookstores -- Hero (Hyperion). "It's your regular, ordinary coming-of-age story
about the world's first gay superhero," Moore says. Like Narnia, it's also the
first in a series. Moore has had previous publishing success: His The Official
Illustrated Movie Companion to the first Narnia film is a New York Times
bestseller. What else? "I'm dying to work with [producer] Brian Grazer," he
says. That's understandable: Hero sounds ripe for adaptation.
The unbelievably
affable New York transplant came to Manhattan by way of Virginia Beach, Virginia
(and the White House, where he interned during the good old Clinton
administration). No matter how busy he is, he never fails to glow with Southern
charm. And busy he is. Besides the Narnia films and his superhero cycle, Moore's
working on Lake City (a film he co-wrote and will co-direct with PAPER's Hunter
Hill, starring Sissy Spacek) and a documentary about Where the Wild Things Are
author Maurice Sendak (co-directed by Moore, Hill and Spike Jonze). Sounds like
he's enjoying his second childhood. To which Moore responds: "And I hope I have
a third one, too."
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