Parade Magazine & Jerry O'Connell

This morning's (Sunday) PARADE magazine had a short article about Jerry O'Connell costarring in the movie M2M. Unfortunately, it contains many references to Britney Spears. ;-) 3.5.2000

O'Connell Goes From Fat Boy to Spaceman
by Jane Ciabattari

Jerry O'Connell, ready to go to Mars

At 11, Jerry O'Connell was picked out of a New York public school to play the fat kid in Stand by Me. After growing up, slimming down and graduating from NYU in 1995, he spent four seasons on the sci-fi series Sliders. Now he teams up with Gary Sinise and Tim Robbins in the film MISSION TO MARS. He plays a computer specialist. "I'd read THE RIGHT STUFF", says O'Connell, 26. "I thought of these guys as yahoo pilots, but it's all scientific. And to spend 40 hours in a spacesuit, you have to be in tip-top shape."

On location for six months in Vancouver, O'Connell was the only single guy. "I ended up as the designated babysitter," he says. "Gary Sinise invited me to a Britney Spears concert with his daughters. There were 40,000 screaming 12-year-old girls. It was like putting your head inside a 747"