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	Party Monster
	Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato Macaulay Culkin, Seth Green, Chloë Sevigny, Natasha Lyonne, Wilmer Valderrama, Wilson Cruz, Diana Scarwid, Dylan McDermott, Marilyn Manson, John Stamos, Mia Kirshner 2003		Movie and TV viewers may know Seth Green for his recurring roles as Scott Evil, sullen heir to the inept, would-be world-conqueror Dr. Evil in the "Austin Powers" films, and Oz, amiable werewolf/rock musician on the "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" series. Whether he's cavorting on the big or small screen, Green is a blast to watch. Wait until his fans get a load of him as glammed-out club kid James St. James, narrator of "Party Monster" — a tabloid-esque account of the pansexual '80s New York club scene and the decline and fall of mainstay freak/party promoter/murderer Michael Alig. With its groovalicious milieu, techno-dance hits of the era and the presence of still-baby-faced Macaulay "Home Alone" Culkin as bent, intoxicated-by-his-own-cachet Alig, it would be a guilty pleasure, even if it sucked. But Green's game performance as Alig's manipulated mentor St. James uncages "Party Monster." With a hip cast that includes indie-film "it" girl Chloë Sevigny, Wilmer Valderrama (TV's "That '70s Show") Dylan McDermott (TV's "The Practice"), Natasha Lyonne and shock-rocker Marilyn Manson, it deserves to be a midnight-movie perennial: "All About Eve" with blood, guts and house music.