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While he bears some resemblance to another screen actor named Brad [Pitt],
blond Midwesterner Brad Rowe made an auspicious debut as Gabriel, a hunky
waiter-musician who is asked to model for a gay photographer, in Tommy
O'Haver's lightweight romance "Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss" (1998). The
son of a conservative father and "artsy-liberal" mother, the actor had a few
trepidations about undertaking a role with homoerotic overtones but the
resulting praise has only boosted his fledgling career.
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The iconoclastic Rowe spent his junior year of college in Seville, Spain and
stayed on for another year, working as a goodwill ambassador for the US
State Department and indulging in flamenco lessons, guitar playing and even
a run with the bulls in Pamplona. After graduating from the University of
Wisconsin with a degree in economics, he headed for L.A. and the usual round
of auditions and classes. Rowe was cast in the as yet unreleased thriller
"Invisible Temptation" (filmed in 1996) before accepting the role of
Gabriel. Since his profile has risen with the success of "Billy's Hollywood
Screen Kiss" (which was screened at Sundance), the actor landed a recurring
role of the dim-bulb intern (who happens to be the nephew of the station
manager) on the NBC comedy "NewsRadio" and was cast alongside Eric Roberts
and Sam Shepard in the 1998 TNT Western "Purgatory" |
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