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Qubrlerl is not Ron Silrer's strongtJsuit. "Hey! Over herel" he r.allsacross a Manhattan Italian restau-rant filled with more Armani thanravioli. Some of the lunchers turn inhis direction, then coolly go back toswimming with the sharks.The actor beams. He loves beingjust famous enough so that the res-taurant owner won't shush him. but

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not so famous that he can't take thecommuter train from his home inScarsdale. The other lunchers mightseem unimpressed but even thetoughest must admit that the value ofSilver is going up. These days, en-thuses syndicated columnist ConniePassalacqua, "You can't find an ac-tor hotter than Ron Silver."He's had his years of blink-and-miss-him roles in everything fromHollywood schmaltz Romancing theStone to cult favorite Welcome to L.A.The l9B4 CarboTalks saw him in hisfirst movie lead. Before that he hadpaid his dues on television (Rhoda,The Mac Dauis Showl, and on thestage. But it wasn't until l9BB, whenhe played Charlie Fox in David Ma-met's Speed-the-Plant that his starpower solidified. He not only won aTony for best actor, but also a NewYork Critics' Drama Desk Award.which in some ways, is even moreprestigious.

In the last few months, Silver hasappeared opposite Angelica Hus-ton, who won an Oscar nominalionfor her role, in the critical hit Ene-mies, A Loue Story, and with JamieLee Curtis in Blue Steel. Come Sep-tember he plays attorneyAlan Der-showitz in the Claus von Biilowmovie, Reuersal of Fortune, alongwith Jeremy Irons and Glenn Close.Paul Mazursky directed Silver inEnemies and remembers his

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Ron Silver(coxrrnunn rnona eece 64)to use in Garbo falks (1984). Thefilm itself-about a son's attempt toconvince the reclusive Garbo to visithis dying mother in the hospital-fell flat, but Silver was convincingand affecting, a mensch for all sea-sons. That same year, he whirledaround and demonstrated his rangein Oh, God,! You Deuil, pulling out allthe stops as a maniacal record-com-

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Still for Silver, 1984 proved to beThe year before, his perform-in Shel Silverstein's play Go-

at the Coodman Theater in Chi-him a local JosephAward nomination. It gotnoticed by director Mike Nich-who had whittled down Silver'sin Silkwood. Nichols decidedhim in Broadway's Hurlyburlya droll Hollywood agent, along-

an all-star ensemble of WilliamHarvey Keitel, SigourneyJirry Stiller, Anne Meara,later, John Rubinstein and Can-Bergen. Seizing the moment,stayed with the play through-its entire 343-show run.A year later, he costarred withThomas in Nichols' Social Se-garnering favorable reviewsfrom the hard-to-please JohnSome TV work and the Off-comedy Hunting Cock-with Dianne Wiest increasedvisibility. Then came Speed,-the-

"I don't know where Charlie Fox'scame from," Silver reflects to-coffee. "Or like [my char-Blue Steel-that dark side

you try to sublimate,

nity, and used the Creek system toproduce plays at a profit. "We didStalag 17," he recalls. oolt's all guys.So we cast one guy from each frater-nity so all the frat brothers would buytickets. We sold out like ten nights."Upon graduation in 1967, Silvercontinued his Chinese Studies majorat St. John's University and at twosister institutions, the University ofValencia in Spain and the College ofChinese Culture in Taiwan. His far-flung education was partly due to hisrecruitment as a CIA apprentice; theagency even helped him obtain a Na-tional Defense school loan. Thisfledgling career path ended in 1969,when, as a grad student, Silver says,o'I was jailed for a few days in Lenin-grad, for bringing Chinese materialinto the country."Ron met his wife of 14 years,Lynne Miller Silver, now a contribut-ing editor at Self magazine, when hewas attending SUNY Buffalo. A de-voted father, Silver cut short his %-seguy role two years ago so that hecould spend Chanukah and Christ-mas with his wife and their seven-year-old daughter and ll-year-oldson. ooAnd I insisted on a totally un-reasonable I0 days off for Thanks-

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THE ORIGINALS/ 16They Do It With Styleo Substanceo and CharacterThis month:Washington's Jockey Club maitre d', Martin Garbisu by Jeff Shea,Designer-on-the-rise Charlotte NeuvilleCeltic chieftain Red Auerbach

POWER TEAM/ 38Partners in InfluenceWorking with venerable restaurateur Joe Baum, Michael Whitemanand Rozanne Gold have been at the center of New York's dining

universe. We visit them at their latest succis d'estime,the Hudson River Club by TomRubin

ON THE COVER/ 62Silver's Value Is RisingRon Silver, a man of conviction and complexity, is one of thoseproverbial actors who worked for years to attain overnight success.

Suddenly he seems to be everywhere we turn. We find outwhat he thinks of movies and more by Frank Loaece

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