Wedding Crashers

At first, it's a little disconcerting hanging out with Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn at Dodger Stadium, in Los Angeles, watching a ballgame. Given what you know about them from their movies, you expect a few things. You expect Owen to act lazy, goofy and stoned-out, and Vince to be tossing off raised- eyebrow wisecracks, and girls to be gathered around, hoping for a ride home. Instead, after ordering two hot dogs, two bottles of water, two Cokes, nachos and a bag of peanuts, they turn to each other and start riffing in a Gauloise-smoking, grad-student kind of way, not a joke in sight.

"What exactly does the word 'circa' mean, do you think?" Vince says to Owen, apropos of nothing, really.

"It means 'around,' " Owen says to Vince.

"Right. But what exactly does it mean?"

"It's just a bullshit kind of thing to say to sound kind of smart. 'Presupposes' is another."

" 'Presupposes.' "

"And 'Cite your sources.' "

" 'Cite your sources.' "

Then Vince offers up an example of his own. " 'Parenthetically speaking.' "

" Oh, yeah," says Owen, savoring the phrase. "That's a good one."

Briefly, both are silent. But then, suddenly, Vince erupts with another random query: "Who was the president of the Confederacy?"

Owen: "Jefferson Davis. Who wouldn't know that?"

This is all very well and good, but it isn't exactly what you want to hear from these two, especially since they've got a movie coming out called Wedding Crashers, about a pair of pickup artists who specialize in hooking up at weddings. Skip the history lesson. Let's talk chicks. But that would be so crass, so expected. So, the conversation veers off in any number of different directions.