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Dave Karger
Dave Karger, a senior writer at EW, also reports on box office and other movie-
related matters on NBC's ''Today''
No, the Police haven't made a movie, but Message in a Bottle does feature a king of pain. Back from The Postman's postapocalypse, Kevin Costner plays the heartsick shipbuilder in this adaptation of Nicholas Sparks' best-seller; Robin Wright Penn, the journalist who finds Costner's letter to his dead wife and decides to find him. Paul Newman, as Costner's crusty ex-drunk dad, provides some on-screen levity. Off camera, the mere presence of the condiment king did the trick. ''The prop guys,'' says director Luis Mandoki (When a Man Loves a Woman), ''put Newman's Own salad dressing on the table as a joke.'' Hail, Caesar?
