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...used rat-pack swagger to climb the hosting rope in record time, from emceeing the TV Land awards in April to the Tonys in June to the Emmys on Sept. 20. He's up for his own Emmy this year for his role as an over-the-top straight guy in the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother. And he has parodied this image of suit-wearing cockiness by playing a hypermasculine version of himself in the Harold & Kumar movies. If Frank Sinatra had wanted a gay singing-and-dancing magician to party with--and no doubt he would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Neil Patrick Harris: Emmy Host with the Most | 9/28/2009 | See Source »

Harris' day job, for now, is doing brilliant parodies of straight men. In Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay, he goes to a whorehouse, picks out the largest-fake-breasted woman in the world, has sex with her and brands her with his initials. In How I Met Your Mother, his high-fiving, high-finance character has slept with more than 200 women and spouts catchphrases about "the bro code." "It's a burlesque of the heterosexual male as done by a gay performer, which is a big element of what makes his performance so compelling," says Carter Bays...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Neil Patrick Harris: Emmy Host with the Most | 9/28/2009 | See Source »

...strong Quaker offensive in the first half, survived three penalty corners in a row, and shifted the momentum in its favor. When sophomore Allie Kimmel scored at 27:08, it appeared that Crimson had stifled a Penn team and was about to send the Quakers to their fourth straight loss...

Author: By Christina C. Mcclintock, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Drops Third Straight At Home To Quakers | 9/28/2009 | See Source »

...Denise (Naturi Naughton, a petite Jennifer Hudson type) is the classical pianist with the urge to sing - when she does so the first time in the movie, her eyes well up with tears and the preview audience burst into applause - but her uptight parents want her to walk the straight and narrow. They, by the way, are referred to in the cast credit's only as Denise's Mother and Denise's Father, which is exactly the way you want parents dealt with in a movie like this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fame: More Kids Who Want to Live Forever | 9/25/2009 | See Source »

...Crimson experienced an undeniably rocky start to the season. Since its victory over UNH on Sept. 8, the team has dropped four straight games throughout which it has scored a meager three goals–the same number that Penn forward Jessica Fuccello put up in her team’s last game...

Author: By Charlie Cabot, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Quaker Matchup Offers Chance To Start Anew | 9/24/2009 | See Source »

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