High Invisibility By Disappearing Into His Roles, 'Hollow Man'
Star Kevin Bacon Has Become A Man Of Substance  August 04,
2000|by AMY LONGSDORF (A free-lance story for The Morning Call).
Kevin Bacon knows what it's like to feel invisible.  Sitting in
a room at the Four Seasons Hotel discussing his new $90 million
sci-fi thriller `Hollow Man,` which opens today in area
theaters, the actor flashes back to a time a dozen years ago
when his once-rocketing career began to sputter and stall.  He
had just turned 30 and Hollywood seemed to have no use for him
anymore.  "It was a really rough time," Bacon recalls, sipping a
cup of steaming coffee. "My mother had just died. I had gotten
married and my wife was expecting our first child. And my career
was in the toilet. I'd been at the top with 'Diner' and
'Footloose' and here I was, starting to slip down the other
side."  No sooner did he sign up for the B-movie `Tremors` than
Bacon had a full-scale meltdown. He was leaving his apartment on
New York's Upper West Side