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Neil Patrick Harris sat down with Ellen yesterday to discuss the preparations he’s going through to host this Sunday’s Oscars.
If anyone would know how to have a great Oscar night, it’s Ellen who hosted last year’s event where she famously took the “selfie that broke the internet.”
NPH admits he feels a “horrible dark cloud” forming over his head as he contemplates how to possibly top that.
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| Neil Patrick Harris and David Burtka |
Neil Patrick Harris and David Burtka’s Harlem townhouse featured in Architectural Digest.
Having lived on the West Coast for ten years, the couple says they always intended to move back to NYC permanently. And so, they have now made their home in a gorgeous, five story townhouse in the Harlem section of Manhattan.
According to the designer, Harris likes function while Burtka likes things to look nice.
See? Balance.
Check out the article at AD, and the video feature below:
Check out our first look at Neil Patrick Harris’ upcoming debut on American Horror Story: Freak Show.
Apparently playing the role of a traveling saleman named “Chester,” Harris would look to be some sort of magician who like to attempt the classic “saw a lady in half” routine.
Harris will appear in episodes 11 and 12 – beginning when the show returns to FX Network on January 7th at 10PM.
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Could People Magazine celebrate it’s first openly gay “Sexiest Man Alive?”
Or will it be a “Guardian of the Galaxy?”
According to NY Daily News, Neil Patrick Harris and Chris Pratt are the front-runners for the title this year.
With his boy-next-door charm, his role on “Parks and Recreation” plus his movie “Guardians of the Galaxy” set to take in over $730 million this year, hunky Chris Pratt is definitely high on my list.
But People also seems intrigued by Harris who starred on Broadway (and won the Tony Award) for “Hedwig and the Angry Inch,” was in the film “Gone Girl,” and is set to host the Oscars.
After Bradley Cooper, Adam Levine and Channing Tatum of recent years, who do you think should be this year’s “Sexiest Man Alive?”
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| Neil Patrick Harris |
Things just keep getting better and better for Neil Patrick Harris.
After a hugely successful run on Broadway this year with Hedwig and the Angry Inch, plus hosting this year’s Tony Awards (where he won for Hedwig, don’t you know…), now comes the news that Harris will host the 2015 Academy Awards.
From CBS News:
“We are thrilled to have Neil host the Oscars,” telecast producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron said in a statement. “We have known him his entire adult life, and we have watched him explode as a great performer in feature films, television and stage. To work with him on the Oscars is the perfect storm, all of his resources and talent coming together on a global stage.”
“It is truly an honor and a thrill to be asked to host this year’s Academy Awards. I grew up watching the Oscars and was always in such awe of some of the greats who hosted the show,” Harris added. “To be asked to follow in the footsteps of Johnny Carson, Billy Crystal, Ellen DeGeneres, and everyone else who had the great fortune of hosting is a bucket list dream come true.”
Last year’s Oscar broadcast, hosted by Ellen DeGeneres, was the most-watched Oscars of the past decade. The broadcast garnered 43 million viewers.
Harris shared the news on social media with the video below:
Neil Patrick Harris, fresh off his Tony Award winning run in “Hegwig and the Angry Inch” married longtime bf David Burtka in Italy this past weekend.
“We happily confirm that Neil Patrick Harris and David Burtka were married in Italy in an intimate ceremony surrounded by their close friends and family,” Harris’s representative tells PEOPLE.
Wearing custom Tom Ford tuxedos, the How I Met Your Mother star, 41, and Burtka, 39, wed with close friend and mentor Pam Fryman, the long-time director of How I Met Your Mother, officiating.
Also taking part in the celebration were the couple’s fraternal twins, Harper Grace and Gideon Scott, 3½.
One highlight of the festive evening was a special performance at the reception by Sir Elton John.
Congrats to the happy couple!
Guess what? @DavidBurtka and I got married over the weekend. In Italy. Yup, we put the 'n' and 'd' in 'husband'. pic.twitter.com/R09ibF41rt— Neil Patrick Harris (@ActuallyNPH) September 8, 2014
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With only two weeks left of his Tony Award-winning performance in “Hedwig and the Angry Inch,” Neil Patrick Harris is continuing to give his Twitter followers something audacious to enjoy.
This past week, post-show, Harris tweeted this naked selfie for his fans.
Two weeks left, what will he do next?
Broadway’s “Hedwig and the Angry Inch” has recouped it’s initial investment in only three months since opening at the Belasco Theater, thanks in great part to the star-power of Neil Patrick Harris.
The New York Times has the details:
The producers announced on Tuesday that “Hedwig,” a concertlike show about a transgender rock musician from East Berlin, had recouped its capitalization, which was about $5 million, according to investment papers.
The show has elevated Mr. Harris (best known from CBS’s “How I Met Your Mother”) into Broadway’s newest box office star: The average paid admission to “Hedwig” last week was $148.66, the fourth-highest on Broadway, and the show managed to recoup swiftly even though it’s only holding seven performances a week, instead of the usual eight, because of the score’s demands on Mr. Harris.
Harris won the Tony Award this year for “Best Actor in a Musical” for his performance.
Next up – Andrew Rannells (“Book of Mormon,” HBO’s “Girls”) takes over the lead role as Harris departs on August 17th. We’ll see then if Harris was the draw, or the show itself…