
Ah the Emmys. Did anyone watch this year, or were you all too busy catching up on Mad Men, which as of last night is the first show on basic cable to win the award for best drama in a series?
Best comedy went to Tina Fey and the crew of 30 Rock, again. So you'd assume that this was the year where all the clever writing and poignant, meaningful, television came back from wherever it's been hiding since Arrested Development went off the air.
You'd be wrong:
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What is it with comeback kids these days? After a 20-year hiatus from Silver Spoons and Little House on the Prairie, Jason Batemen totally owned it on Arrested Development and now has a successful career post-Bluth. Neil Patrick Harris seemed as if he'd be stuck with the Doogie Howser stigma forever, until Harold and Kumar came along and revitalized his film presence (he had been doing Broadway for awhile). Playing a hyper-masculine, druggie version of himself, Neil's cameo stole the show and made NPH a household name (literally: no one had ever called Neil Patrick Harris "NPH" before the Harold and Kumar franchise). CONTINUED »

Neil Patrick Harris graces the latest cover of gay glossy Out. And, like the mensch we know he is, the dreamboat actor spread himself wide open - emotionally, that is - to reveal the quiet trials and tribulations of his otherwise well-documented life. A taste:

As you've likely heard, former Doogie Houser and current How I Met Your Mother star Neil Patrick Harris came out of the closet last week, announing he's a big gay. And who does he tell his story to? Why People magazine, of course. First Lance Bass gets his cover story, then T.R. Knight gives the Time Inc. tabloid the "exclusive" on his homo habits, and now Harris has shaken hands with Larry's Hackett. Because while Vanity Fair is where celebrities reveal they were molested as a child, People is the place to spread the word that you're a bottom.
