Reinventing Doogie–Again
Reinventing Doogie–Again by Roxanne McDonald
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He was a genius at eight, had a job as a doctor, and was keeping his EQ up with his IQ in a then futuristic electronic journal. Then he segued to being a playah business exec. Then he was known as the latest to be outed as gay. And? |
From Doogie Howser (a character ahead of his time in a show ahead of its time) to Barney Stinson on How I Met Your Mother (which has mildly marginal moments of funny), the actor Neil Patrick Harris has been high-profile all along. His sexual orientation has as well.
He has been asked to offer truths about his
choices/ orientation. He has dodged and ducked. And now Harris has offered the answer many have speculated (a bit too nosily) about.
According to television critic Doug Elfman, in an article in the Chicago-Sun Times, the speculation was finally satisfied by a statement to PerezHilton.com: Harris stated that he is, Elfman passes on, “a happy gay man.”
But just as Elfman so smartly asks, so what? His roles are well-played, and he made his post-modern persona work in his favor all these years. In fact, some of his best work is involved in the movie Elfman also cites, wherein he plays a cranked-up, coked-out, oversexed nutcase who gets the final laugh–as Harold (John Cho), in Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle, asks, stunned and stopped in his tracks way out in some back woods area, “Did Doogie Howser just steal my f*&^ing car?”
He steals our hearts and ransoms them for laughs. That’s all we need to worry about, k?
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