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| Lee, thanks so much for the cover for Noises Off. He looks so young and adorable. It's so nice to see him with his natural hair color. Not that I don't enjoy the dark brunette with blue-tone but the sandy brown gives him a lighter feel.
Does everyone know the significance of Noises Off to his career? He ventured to NYC in 1995 but was met with disappointment from finding little work to losing his agent. He was living on $20 a week and stretching a meal of pasta, canned tuna, and broccoli for three days. Unable to make ends meet he returned to Minneapolis and did theatre at the Guthrie. He fully expected never to come back to Broadway and eventually turning to teaching after five years. His friends in NYC begged him to try out for that play and luckily he won the role after barely scraping enough funds to make the trip to the Big Apple.
His success on the Great White Way led to him having the confidence and resume to audition for on-camera jobs. I'm detecting a pattern with him wherein if he's reached a professional impasse he goes back to his roots to gain strength and revitalizes like a phoenix. This is what makes me love him more. Instead of dwelling on the negativity of the situation he's moving forward quickly and without bashing others. Even the critics are hard-pressed to continue to hate a person who's doing the noblest of thespian medium. Quite a classy exit and is symbolic of his inner fortitude.
I also wonder if there isn't something else up his sleeve. Recall he went to Sundance January 2008 with SO to shop a screenplay. Also he's become friends with Dustin Lance Black, ther Oscar winning screenwriter of Milk. Maybe there's a film around the corner. Strategically he might not want to announce it too soon so as not to look greedy.
BTW, I've spoken so much about TR my friend had a dream about him. He was in a biopic about Van Morrison and we made plans to see it. There was plenty of strange things but there was a scene in his mind he remembers. It was TR as Van singing "Brown-Eyed Girl" on a BBC show.
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I knew he used to smoke, but didn't know how recently he had quit. In fact, I never knew that JC smokes, or did he quit as well? Either way, good for T.R. for quitting! It's a hard addiction to break.
| In a blurb about him attending the Point Foundation awards banquet on October 2007 he claimed one month of being nicotine-free.
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Did he ever talk about how he get it? Gwen?
| Nope, he's never explained it and I've only heard two sets of rumors. Does he not want to divulge or has no interviewer bothered to ask?
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Oh the accusations are still there. I keep reading he and Katie went to Perez Hilton to destroy the poor poor Isiah.
| IW fans will never be satisfied and have become almost a cult so I don't count them amongst the technically sane set. By and large the media and lay detractors
are content with him being gone and doing theatre. Secretly the Hollywood press may scoff at theatre for being "unsexy" and "unhip" but it wishes not to appear so openly vulgar. The regular haters don't have the same restraint and, honestly, I just laugh. One female lambasted the stage because she's sure it's beneath Robert Pattinson and Shia LaBeouf. 
Unfortunately I have personally met Mr. Lavandeira (aka Perez) and he'll jump on any bandwagon to get attention. He wasn't the only one criticizing IW's actions and doubt he was the sole reason for the latter's insincere apologies. Frankly Perez has attacked both TR and Katie viciously on his site. He scrawled "pedo" on TR's pictures because he disapproved of his relationship with Mark while simultaneously gushing over Hayden and Milo. Then he went so low as to fabricate "diva" incidents about Katie and called her mother a "b!tch." Sure that means the three are friends.
Here's more info on Parade. The cast is being filled and here's the pic of his leading lady, Lara Pulver. They all sound so accomplished and now I'm doing accounting to see if I could go.
Playbill News: Pulver, Berresse, d'Amboise and Hoff Will Join Knight in L.A. Parade
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For the record, I hated Mondler with a passion. To be fair, I stopped watching Friends before they hooked up, but I watched it in reruns and hated it.
| That's alright, Pia, we know you don't dislike them because Chandler is "so not hawt." Marie was simply making the point that, in particular, is a bad reason. Personally I'm not fond of Calizona nor Arizona as a character but it's not because I'm prejudiced against lesbians.
I never thought of George as a younger version of Derek. Now that you mention it there's a similar soft-spoken cadence in voice between the two. Now it's so bittersweet to think back at his image in uniform; of him finally graduating to prince-suitor only to die. 
Slightly OT. My mom and I have been mulling over adopting a pug. There's till nothing concrete. Long ago I asked permission to name a male "George O'Malley." She agreed. Now it's become shorthand for any male pug. Yesterday she asked a passerby, "Oh what's your George's name?" rather than what's your pug's name?"
Here's a small tribute to TR at afterelton:
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Speaking of gay actors we'd like to see more of, this week came news that now that T.R.Knight has exited Grey's Anatomy, his first big project is taking over the role of James Bond in the next movie. beat beat I kid! While I would love to see T.R. in a Bond movie, I can't quite see him as Bond. But he has definite possiblities as a Bond boy!
Instead, T.R. is going to play Leo Frank in Alfred Uhry's musical Parade. In case the title inspires images of happy folks tromping up and down streets waving flags and singing, the actual material is much more sober. First produced in 1998, Parade tells the story of Frank, a Jewish man (Knight) living in Georgia in 1913, who is accused of raping and murdering a 13-year-old girl.
Not exactly Mamma Mia!
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