Wait - wait - this is the theater-actor category for Men of the Year? And Matthew Broderick gets it? Matthew Broderick, who is, for a certain generation of
"Bueller...Bueller" - mumbling ex-teenagers, our beloved boy-man of the screen - THAT Broderick? Same guy. He's got two Tonys and was just in Elain May's "Taller Than A Dwarf". Broderick has always done well with both movies and plays. Just as "WarGames" was making the world safe for nebbishy protonerds, he was on Broadway, memorably declaring his sexual awakening in Neil Simon's "Brighton Beach Memoirs" ("I have seen the golden palace of the Himalayas...Puberty is over!"). What would the "Bueller" mumblers get out of seeing Broderick in the flesh? "It's a little more intense dose of me," he says. "I almost said, 'An intense dose of Matthew Broderick,' but I have a friend who says if you refer to yourself in the third
person you should be put in a mental institution." In addition to balancing and quietly flourishing in dual careers, he has a wife (Sarah Jessica Parker) who
stars in that show (Sex and the City), and now he has this Man of the Year honor to deal with. "I intend to live up to the title and be an example for all men everywhere," he says. Which, in his own slyly boyish way, he always has been.
