I always look for beefcake photos of the male stars of tv shows and movies I review. Who knows what impressive biceps and bulges you might find under that business suit? So I started searching for Mark Harelik, who plays the wealthy, sleazy dad on
Imposters.
And found this:
Mark Harelik, Playgirl magazine, August 1989. Nice chest, even nice pernis, which was impossibly rare for legitimate actors in the 1980s.
Do I see a little arousal, or is he just swinging in the breeze?
A sort of cowboy - Conan the Barbarian thing going on.
Mark Harelik was born in Texas in 1951. He started out on the stage, writing a biopic of
Hank Williams and a musical,
The Immigrants, and starring in
Moby Dick Rehearsed, The Heidi Chronicles, and
The Beard of Avon.
He began appearing on the small screen in 1990, mostly playing square-jawed post-hunks in business suits. Credits include
Cheers, Wings, Grace Under Fire, Seinfeld, Veronica's Closet, Boy Meets World, Will & Grace, Six Feet Under, The Gilmore Girls, Bones, Monk, Breaking Bad, How to Get Away with Murder, and
Grace and Frankie.
Apparently heterosexual in real life, but occasionally a gay or gay-positive role, such as half of the gay-couple-next-door in a 1990s episode of
The Single Guy.
You've seen him many times, but you didn't know that you've seen him. Until now.
"Cowboy Conan the Barbarian vibe" makes me think of two things: Beastmaster: Through the Portal of Time (because Marc Singer wears a cowboy hat, still in his loincloth), and this one Lakota felon who drew a lot in the style of Frank Frazetta.
ReplyDeleteEver notice how 20th century Playgirl models are all cut?
I haven't actually checked on that. Harelik is Jewish, so of course he's cut. I think circumcision was a common medical procedure in the post-World War II period. Doctors didn't even ask the parents if they wanted it done; it was assumed necessary.
DeleteYou'd think they'd have foreign models or something tho.
DeleteSomehow Indians were spared. There seems to have been a racial element. Possibly regional or class or rural-urban as well.
I liked the first season of Imposters with Parker Young and Rob Heaps. I guess Heaps is UK-ish by his other credits. The second episode had the most shirtlessness.
ReplyDeleteWow! I had the hots for him on Broadway in The Light In The Piazza, and loved him on Big Bang Theory. Never would have imagined that he posed nude! Sexy as well as talented.
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