by Lorrie Lynch

Q: I love ABC's "Alias," especially Michael Vartan (Agent Vaughn). Is he in any movies coming up?

Lyndsay Wise, Rochester, N.Y.

Yes. He'll star in fall's "One Hour Photo" with Robin Williams. Otherwise, filming the "Wonder Woman meets James Bond" show, he says, keeps the Franco-American actor, 33, plenty busy. No use asking for dish on the season finale (9 p.m. ET Sunday); the stars don't know the plot lines until the day of filming. So how did the former pro pool player, who dropped out of high school (and never got his diploma), prepare for his role? "We weren't allowed to talk to high-ranking CIA officials or anyone with inside knowledge," he says. "Everything the CIA told us was very [mundane]; you could find it on the Internet."

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