Paul Rudd

PAUL RUDD is in "The Ten," David Wain's huge-cast comedy about the Ten Commandments. He was playing the banjo with his son when we interrupted him on a recent Friday evening to talk about funny slobs, and David Letterman. So did you read this David Denby thing in the New Yorker? He was writing about how the romantic comedy has changed -- about how now they're full of slobs, and why would the women want them anyway? I don't think it's changed.

At the research library of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, there is a folder full of news clippings for Paul Rudd that parenthetically notes "actor from 'Clueless.' " Though his role as Alicia Silverstone's stepbrother in the 1995 hit may be what many know him from, Rudd, 35, has been plenty busy since then.