Acting out 'Crimes' of passion 'Cherish' is the word Morgan Freeman uses to describe his feelings about his career

He was born in Chicago, but no city is Morgan Freeman's kind oftown. Between films, he can be found chilling out on his Mississippifarm. "I could accommodate a hundred people, and we would only runinto each other sporadically," says the owner of 125 acres of landdown South.

"At home if the phone rings, I let it keep ringing," he says."Hollywood has my number, but they can call back. I don't even have acell phone. When I'm on my boat, nobody can reach me. I love it."

Occasionally, he even stops by Hollywood to make a film. Witness"High Crimes," starring Freeman as Charlie Grimes, a down-on-his-luck military defense attorney and recovering alcoholic who isfighting to …