Frankly, this isn't the first time we've spent an evening waiting for a woman to call. But if there's anyone who'll keep us pinned to our desks with full bladders and empty stomachs, it's this woman. And when she does call—three hours late—explaining that she would have called sooner had she not almost poked her eye out, all is forgiven. It turns out she scratched her cornea while running with car keys in her mouth, a feat her ophthalmologist believes she is the first to pull off. Impressive, yes, but just one of several firsts in Rachel Weisz's recent past: First to make a film starring Brendan Fraser watchable (The Mummy). First to play a sadistically manipulative woman in a Neil LaBute production (The Shape of Things). And no doubt first to complain about being typecast as the intelligent, capable heroine. "I'm bored of playing clever girls. I wouldn't mind playing a couple of bimbos," laments the 30-year-old Weisz. Someday, perhaps, but until then we can enjoy her (yet again) as an intelligent, capable single mom in the film adaptation of Nick Hornby's About a Boy.

...................—Derek Fagerstrom