Nat Wolff returns to John Green in 'Paper Towns'

ALTHOUGH the lion's share of the attention for the film "Paper Towns," which opens this weekend, has been focused on Cara Delevingne, the draw for the teen girl crowd - the film's key demo - is Nat Wolff.

Wolff is an actor, singer-songwriter, keyboardist and guitarist. At 20, he already has had an album on the Billboard chart, won two Teen Choice awards and starred in last summer's hit, "The Fault In Our Stars," which, like "Paper Towns," was based on a novel by John Green.

Green's involvement was key for Wolff.

"When they called and asked if I wanted to do 'Paper Towns,' I said yes before they could finish their sentence or send me a script," Wolff said in a phone interview with Tattle correspondent Jerome Maida.

Though the film is being marketed as a tale of teen love, Wolff feels it is deeper than that.

"I think that it's not really a love story at all," Wolff said. "It's more a coming-of-age story about friendship."

So, how was it working with reputed wild-child Delevingne?

"It was great," Wolff said. "You know, Cara came onto the set and I was the only human on Earth, I think, who hadn't heard of her before. When she walked in, I was like, 'I think you're on a billboard outside of my apartment.'

"But she turned out to be such a great actress and perfect for the role," he continued. "We just really love each other and we got along terrific [since] the first time we met. You know, she's obviously very wild, which is a great quality for an actress.

"Neither of us likes to plan," Wolff concluded. "We like to be spontaneous and free - and it was great working with somebody like that."

(See Gary Thompson's review on Page 24.)

In a classic case of "do as I say, not as I do," Tattle brings you the 1971 Grammy-award-winning album "Bill Cosby Talks to Kids About Drugs."

The Washington Post reports that the album begins like this: "Hi, this is Bill Cosby. I'd like you to pay close attention to this album because it's very important. We're going to talk about amphetamines, cocaine, depressants, barbiturates, opiates, alcohol, tobacco, hallucinogens.

"OK, now let's talk about pills," Cosby says later on the record. "Now, some pills are called downers. So, if we take a downer, it kind of makes us feel sleepy. And we think we feel good."

Cosby left out, "And if you take a downer, mixed perhaps with an alcoholic beverage, I can have sex with you and you may not know until you wake up the next morning."

You know, that part we made up is not as far-fetched as it sounds.

The Post was also nice enough to listen to Cosby's 1969 comedy album, "It's True! It's True!" On this one, for adults, Cosby joked about his mission as a teen to score Spanish Fly after learning that spiking a girl's drink with it might make her easy.

"From then on, anytime you see a girl, 'Wish I had some Spanish Fly,' " he said. "Go to a party, see five girls standing alone. Boy, if I had a whole jug of Spanish Fly I'd light that corner up over there. Haaa ha ha."

Today, not so funny.

* "American Psycho" is coming to Broadway.

As a musical.

"The kills are alive . . . with the sound of music."

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