"I STILL SEE A GOOFBALL"

Nickelodeon's Josh Peck lands a grown-up role in "The Wackness" By JOHN ROGERS • The Associated Press • July 25, 2008 When it came time to complete the transition from kid star to grown-up actor, Hilary Duff put a scorpion down her pants and grabbed a microphone to sing the double entendre-laden "I Want to Blow You Up" in this year's film "War, Inc." Safe to say, though, that Nickelodeon star Josh Peck has one-upped his one-time Disney Channel rival with his own grown-up role in the darkly comic "The Wackness," which opens nationwide today. In the film, Peck's Luke Shapiro, a sexually repressed, socially awkward teenage dope dealer, manages to land in jail, get evicted from his family's New York City apartment, struggle briefly with erectile dysfunction and ultimately have his heart broken. On the positive side, he manages to... [read full story]