Véronique Vial, a French celebrity photographer who has toiled for many leading glossies, had a Frenchily insouciant idea: She'd make appointments to snap her favorite species men, that is way early in the morning, before they've put on the stern game faces (not to mention the clothes) with which they meet the world. Then, in a neat, tables-turning trick, she'd show up a few hours early, nabbing the hairy beasts in the shower, shaving, or still asleep. It's in this overly precious fashion that we happen upon Jeff Goldblum's enormous bed, Arthur Miller's 5:30 a.m. crankiness, and Ed Burns' stoopside breakfast. The pictures in Men Before Ten A.M., like the subjects, are grainy, bedraggled, and despite their striking likeness to underwear ads fairly charming. B


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