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Justin Kirk, who plays brokenhearted AIDS sufferer Prior Walter on HBO's Angels in America, has the kind of impossible good looks that bad-TV actors are made of. And while he has done some bad TV--he played Barto Zane for two years on the WB's forgettable Jack & Jill--in reality, Kirk, 34, is an accomplished stage actor. He did his first play at 7 (Brecht, no less) and has since racked up accolades that include an Obie for playing the blind man in Terrence McNally's Love! Valour! Compassion!--"the other gay play of the '90s," says...
THEORY NO. 1 Bad programs. Bad, at least, if you want to attract young men. Testosterone-friendly shows from last season like Fox's Firefly and the WB's Birds of Prey are gone, and most of the shows that have had modest success this year (such as The O.C. and Joan of Arcadia) skew toward women. That leaves a big opening for cable. Channels like FX and ESPN are up in young male viewers. (See page...
Best or worst lie you have ever told? I let people believe I worked for the WB to get an interview at the California Music Awards or the ever classic “Um, I have a boyfriend...
This cartoon obsession extends beyond the problem sets. “I like cartoons in general,” he says. On his personal website, Sala-I-Martin has a WB theme. That is confusing, he says, in his line of work, because many people confuse “Warner Brothers” with the World Bank. That coincidence in initials is amusing to Sala-I-Martin because, he says, “People in World Bank resemble cartoon characters very often...
Teen soaps are a natural place to address class because teens know viscerally what adults learn to forget: that it does matter what your parents do, how much money your family has, where you come from. On the WB's One Tree Hill (Tuesdays, 9 p.m. E.T.) two half brothers by the same father--one raised poor, one privileged--are rivals in their love lives and on the basketball court. It's a decent, if humorless, teen soap in the WB tradition, but TV has a harder time dealing with working-class adults. Fox's Luis (Fridays...