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" My phone rings, and I pick it up. The man on the other end says, &amp;quot;Hi. This is David Duchovny.&amp;quot; And it really is, which is odd, because usually when you interview a celebrity, a publicist calls first to connect. When I point this out, he quips: &amp;quot;I can dial my own phone. I learned it just the other day.&amp;quot; Show-off. Of course, it&amp;#039;s not his tech savvy so much as his deadpan sense of humor that&amp;#039;s on display here. You know the one. In the late &amp;#039;90s, he was more prominent than Y2K scares, thanks to The X-Files, the campy alienfest that entranced us for nine years due in great part to its star&amp;#039;s sarcastic persona and brooding good looks. He even inspired a minor hit song titled \u2014 yep \u2014 &amp;quot;David Duchovny.&amp;quot;  And then ... nothing. Well, nothing of that magnitude \u2014 a few not-so-memorable films and a voice-over gig as a puppy in some Pedigree commercials. But now, at 47, he returns to the tube with a genius new Showtime series, Californication. He stars as a literary novelist named Hank Moody whose magnum opus, God Hates Us All, is adapted into the popcorn-nosher Crazy Little Thing Called Love, launching him into midlife-crisis battles with the shiny, happy people of California. It&amp;#039;s the freshest, funniest thing to hit cable in a while. And we&amp;#039;re not too disappointed that the lead spends roughly 19 of the show&amp;#039;s 30 minutes shirtless and/or pantless.  &amp;quot;I had a discussion with Tom Kapinos, the writer, and I said, &amp;#039;I think I&amp;#039;m gonna get in a little better shape for this.&amp;#039; And he said, &amp;#039;No, you&amp;#039;re a writer. You&amp;#039;ve gotta be kind of fat and dissipated.&amp;#039; And I thought, Yeah, you say that, but when you see it, you won&amp;#039;t like it.&amp;quot;  Duchovny played a similarly disenchanted writer in last spring&amp;#039;s indie film The TV Set. Do his choices reveal that this Princeton grad \u2014 who spends a lot of his time writing screenplays \u2014 is fed up with his own work? He laughs. &amp;quot;No. No, I&amp;#039;m not frustrated in my writing at all.&amp;quot; He pauses. &amp;quot;I mean, of course I am \u2014 every writer is frustrated \u2014 but not to the level that I would seek out parts to vent that.&amp;quot;  So that&amp;#039;s what he&amp;#039;s been up to: writing, avoiding X-Files obsessors, and raising two kids with his wife and fellow comedian, T\u00E9a Leoni. &amp;quot;At home, I actually will say to her, &amp;#039;Now, that made me laugh,&amp;#039;&amp;quot; he says drolly. &amp;quot;I point it out because I&amp;#039;m not an easy laugh.&amp;quot;  So what misconceptions do people still have of him? &amp;quot;That I&amp;#039;m aloof. But, you know, I&amp;#039;m not, because I don&amp;#039;t care,&amp;quot; he says. &amp;quot;Isn&amp;#039;t that funny? That was supposed to be funny.&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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