1. "It was quick and crazy," laughs Spader, who jokingly calls his own aversion to technology "some sort of deficiency".

2. Maggie Gyllenhaal and James Spader have built up considerable sexual tension by the time she makes an intentional error in typing and is ordered to come into his office.

3. In Shorts, Spader is company CEO Mr Black whose Black Box gadget (PDA, toaster, baby monitor) is the ultimate multitasking gizmo.

4. For years, Spader professed a desire to stay home with his family and work only sporadically.

5. Then, there is James Spader, an actor too little used of late,() plucking a peach of a part W.

6. Spader says he has not seen the film since he made it, half his life ago when he was 25 playing an insufferably sardonic teenager.

7. Spader evidently sensed a kindred spirit and when Rodriguez promised to have him in and out of Austin in less than a week, the deal was done.

8. Spader carries her home, bathes her, lays her out on some indoor grass, caresses her smiling and nude body, and makes love to her as only a pre-portly Spader can.

9. And yet months before he turns 50, fresh off a five-year, three Emmy-winning run on TV (in David E Kelley's The Practice and Boston Legal), nothing about James Spader is what one might expect.

10. He was the hip blond rebel who elbowed his way into such classic Eighties teen movies as 'Pretty in Pink'; now James Spader is finding satisfaction in decidedly more grown-up roles.