Here's an interesting piece of trivia from this
weekend's story about Neil Patrick Harris in The New York Times. If he hadn't said yes to the role of
Barney on How I Met Your Mother, the role would have been offered to Ralph Macchio.Hmmm ...it's easy to sit here and say, oh, it's good Harris got it, but who knows? Maybe Macchio would have been great in the role too and would have served as sort of a resurgence for his acting career.
With all the "Barneyisms," maybe the writers could have thrown in a funny "Wax on, wax off" reference.
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4-17-2006 @ 7:25PM
Henry Casey said...
Read it again, you guys got it wrong. the Macchio thing is about Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle
One step Mr. Harris has taken toward correcting this misperception was to appear in a feature film called "Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle." In it, two affable stoners pick up a hitchhiker who turns out to be a car-stealing, stripper-loving, Ecstasy-fueled former child actor named Neil Patrick Harris. The character is what Jon Hurwitz, who wrote the screenplay with Hayden Schlossberg, described in a telephone interview as "an alternate-universe version" of Mr. Harris. "When we were writing it, we were hopeful he'd understand it wasn't a Gary Coleman part, that the joke wasn't at his expense," said Mr. Hurwitz, adding that if Mr. Harris said no, their second choice was Ralph Macchio, the former "Karate Kid."
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4-17-2006 @ 8:09PM
Bob Sassone said...
That will teach me not to read too fast. Oh well, it's still an interesting article.
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4-17-2006 @ 8:56PM
Barry said...
Bob, you read every bit as well as you write.
Perhaps if you stopped trying to post about each and every thing that enters your shriveled little mind you would make fewer errors.
Until then, you are a grade A meathead: dead from the neck up.
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