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**Gordon-Levitt Lightens Up **

If the postcollegiate career of Joseph Gordon-Levitt came off like a cry for Sundance seriousness—he played an abused rent boy, a suicidal war vet, a tragic high school amnesiac—the summer of 2009 was like bellowing to the bartender for another bucket of Red Bull and vodka. A few years back, the former child star (TV's Third Rock from the Sun) emerged from Columbia a serious young man intent on working only in things he found "creatively stimulating." This year he finally expanded his definition of stimulating enough to bookend the summer-movie season with roles in the sweetest (and by far the best) romantic comedy in years and the summer's most cynical action flick. He says he did G.I. Joe for the prosthetics. "It was really special to have a face that was not my own face!" he says. He did (500) Days of Summer for more organic reasons: He liked the script, the director, and co-star Zooey Deschanel, and he was intrigued by playing Tom Hansen, the romantic doofus whose low-key charm is the cornerstone of the movie's appeal and the reason countless young women left the theater thinking they'd just met the man of their alt-girl dreams. Gordon-Levitt has been expanding his tastes outward, directing a short-film adaptation of an Elmore Leonard story, "Sparks," as well as funneling his energies toward the art site Hitrecord.org. Recently, Gordon-Levitt says he heard something that he loves: that one of the NBA's all-time missed-shot leaders is Michael Jordan. "I love that. Because you have to go and try and not be afraid to fuck up."—mark healy