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Give the gift they won't to regift. b s l. .... ’ This holiday season, consider giving a CITGO gift card to friends and family. Good for gas, goodies and anything else they might need at a CITGO station. It's the practical choice, sure. But many gifts get exchanged, and this makes those trips possible. THERE AT EVERY TURN. ▲ CITGO Movies jt jjifvSk M Jennifer Jason Leigh Who says she's "dark and intense"? Not her! BY KEVIN MAYNARD AFTER NEARLY 30 years in Holly wood, Jennifer Jason Leigh has developed a bad reputation. On screen, that is in roles ranging from the stiletto-wielding psycho in 1992’s Sin gle White Female to the embittered junkie in 1995’s Georgia. In her latest take on human dysfunc tion, Leigh, 45, mixes it up with Nicole Kidman and Jack Black in Margot at the Wedding. Ironically, the movie’s dark heart and, some say, Leigh’s unin hibited performance stems from a highly functional collaboration between her and writer-director Noah Baumbach, her husband of two years. Leigh, casually dressed in jeans and a vintage white shirt, recently chatted with USA WEEKEND over lunch not far from her home in the Hollywood Hills. People haven't seen you onscreen as much the last couple of years. Were you intentionally keeping a low profile? No, I was just doing plays in New York. For me, it was an incredibly rewarding experience, and at some point you have to work for yourself and hope that you can make a living. Critics have talked in the past about your honesty, especially in regard to your age. 8 USA WEEKEND • Dec 14-16,2007 I don’t think your career is over when you turn 40. [But] it doesn’t help when peo ple’s ages are constantly written about I think the more you demystify some one, the harder it is to believe they are someone else. Well, we do live in a tabloid culture now. Oh, yeah! I’m glad I didn’t grow up in this time. I had some paparazzi at the airport once, and it was really uncom fortable. You’re getting on a plane, you don’t have makeup on, and they’re try ing to say things to upset you. I don’t really understand how it’s all legal. Are you recognized when you go out? Sometimes, if I’m at indie video stores. But now I Netflix. Thank God it’s the modem age, baby! What do you find funny? I actually had Flora [Cross, who plays Leigh’s daughter in Margot ] come over, and we watched Young Frankenstein. I used to have a crazy crush on Gene Wilder. I also really like stupid slap stick. White Chicks made me laugh, and Bill Murray on the treadmill in Lost in Translation killed me. Would you like to do more comedy? Yeah, I would. People peg me as dark and intense. It’s called acting! d PORTRAIT: JOSHUA KESSLER; STYUST: CHER COULTER THE WALL GROUP; MAKEUP: AYAttVJED ROOT; HAM: RYAN TRYGSTAD. THE WALL GROUP