THE GOLDEN BOY
NEIL PATRICK HARRIS
You wouldn’t have caught Neil Patrick Harris playing the bad boy in high school. The great gay hope of dude-bro comedy split his teen years between the L.A. set of Doogie Howser, M.D. and his Albuquerque residency as school drama geek. “That was a good clique to be in,” the 36-year-old says now, at the tail end of a year when he hosted telecasts of both the Tony and Emmy awards. “You were still liked.” He pauses, quirking an eyebrow for his obligatory punchline: “Which in high school is kind of important.”
