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To be or 'Net to Be. feardotcom's Stephen Dorff downloads a more grown-up life.

Stephen Dorff has a rep as an arrogant bad boy. The former private-schooler earner that kind of critical acclaim at 17 (in Backbeat) that usually comes much later in an actor's career; he's been admittedly rude to the press, and has bad mouthed some of the films he's made. His pretty face even has a sort of natural sneer to it.

But his cockiness and Hollywood party-hopping shouldn't overshadow the fact that Dorff has given us some of filmdom's most fun rebels of late: the title character in Cecil B. Demented, Deacon Frost in Blade and drag queen Candy Darling in I Shot Andy Warhol.

"Acting can get boring," Dorff says. "You have to reinvent yourself. I haven't really done a love story. So, if anything, I'd like to do that before a big action film."

Aw. Unfortunately, love will have to wait; Dorff's next movie is the horror film feardotcom. When websurfers who log onto the titular site wind up dead, Dorff, along with Natasha McElhone, has to figure out why.

The concept may sound about as scary as "You've Got Mail," but Dorff says the movie ranks right up there with Se7en amd Jacob's Ladder. His claim seems more believable than the usual PR hype when he candidly explains why he signed up for the movie: "It's a more commercial film. I like [director] Bill Malone and he talked me into it." How did he prepare to play a detective, one of Hollywood's most common roles? "It wasn't that deep for me," Dorff admits. "I didn't have to research it."

Ok, so maybe he's still a bit bratty, but he seems to be more aware now of just how lucky he has been. "The business has changed a lot since I came in," he says. "There was a group of young dudes, and there were just five or six of us, and now there's 400. So now the guys who were with me in that original group are like, 'Who the fuck are all these people?'"

When the going gets tough, the bad boys move behind the camera; Dorff is producing two movies slated for 2003 release. But perhaps even more indicative of his growing up is the fact that he plans to give up one of his bad-boy trademarks. "I'm going to quit smoking when I'm 30," he says. " I made a deal with my mom."

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