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Clearly at home in bad-boy mode, Black wonders what will happen if ''School of Rock'' makes him -- gasp -- a family-picture kind of guy in the public mind. ''It's something I had to face making this film,'' he says. ''No matter how awesome it is, 'School of Rock' will always be, at its core, kind of sweet. I've always been led toward the non-sweet.''

He seems resigned to adjusting his persona now that the mass-audience gods are smiling on him. ''I looked at other family films I thought were great,'' he says, brightening. ''Like 'The Bad News Bears' and 'Willy Wonka.' So I said, Wait a minute, I love those movies.'' The eyebrows go up, in devilishly asymmetrical ways. ''There is no reason I cannot also party in that realm.''

(This is an online-only excerpt from Entertainment Weekly's Oct. 17, 2003, cover story.)

Originally posted Oct 07, 2003
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