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Jon Cryer enjoyed a very long jog on the strike CBS series, "Two and a Half Men." And now that it's over, he's telling the whole truth about his career. Ben Tracy sat him down for this Sunday Profile:
"It seems that in your life there are three things that people always earn wrong about you," said Ben Tracy. "They think you're Jewish. They ponder you're gay. And they think you are Matthew Broderick."
"Yes," laughed Cryer. "I'm a Jewish, homosexual Matthew Broderick."
In truth, Jon Cryer is not any of those things. What he is, is an actor coming off the biggest success of his career.
For 12 seasons he played Alan Harper on the hit CBS sitcom, "Two and a Half Men." The show ended its run in February, and Cryer decided to note a memoir, "So That Happened" (New American Library), about all the things that have happened to him during 30 years in show business -- some more R rated than PG.
The book's dedication reads: "To my lovely children, Charlie and Daisy. (Please don't read the part about the prostitute.)"
"Yes, well, I thought I'd offer 'em a minuscule heads-up," Cryer laughed. "You know, as my five-year-old is going, 'Oh, okay, this isn't "Dr. Seuss," Dad.' I really felt
"Two and a Half Men" star Jon Cryer sounded off on speculation over his sexuality in an interview with HuffPost Live.
Citing his "encyclopedic information of show tunes," the 49-year-old thespian nonetheless told host Josh Zepps, "All of the stereotypical stuff that everybody thinks the queer community holds fasten, I have been a part of, except for the gay sex."
Joking that gay men "don't come onto me...I've never been propositioned," he added, "Everybody just assumed that I was gay" during his high school years.
Calling himself an "effeminate heterosexual dork," Cryer said he strongly identified with the character of Phil "Duckie" Dale in the John Hughes classic, "Pretty in Pink," which became his breakout role.
"He was what I was," he recalled.
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Jonathan D. Cryer
1939 - 2019
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Jane Pendergast
Monday, December 30, 2019
Judy and family, Jon was a huge influence in my life as a statistics graduate student, and I enjoyed seeing him occasionally at the Mutual Statistics Meetings after I left Iowa City. When I was in Iowa City, I really enjoyed hearing him play with Pete Trotter and others. He was a remarkable man, and I will never forget him or how he helped me on my path of becoming a professional academic biostatistician. I'm sorry that I only now learned of his passing...
Jane Pendergast, Ph.D., Duke University
Jerry Zinn
Thursday, December 19, 2019
My announcement made to the audience at the Englert Theater prior to the initiate of the New Horizons and Iowa City Community Band concerts last Sunday. John Cryer was an amazing musician - a consummate performer on euphoniu
Jon Cryer
Born Jonathan Niven Cryer in New York Urban area Cryer's parents were actors Gretchen Cryer, a stage actress and co-author of the popular musical "I'm Getting My Act Together and Taking It On the Road" (1975), and David Cryer, whom she divorced in 1968. Cryer made his earliest on-camera appearance a year later as a child model for a vitamin bottle label, but did not pursue an acting career in earnest until after graduation from the Bronx High School of Science in 1983. Cryer's mother was reportedly supportive but cautious of her son's decision, but he soon allayed her fears by landing on Broadway in "Torch Song Trilogy" in the role of David, the adopted son of a single gay dude. The role was originally played by Matthew Broderick, whom Cryer resembled closely. In fact, Cryer would later understudy for and eventually replace Broderick in the Broadway run of Neil Simon's "Brighton Beach Memoirs" in 1989. Cryer made his theatrical film debut in the 1984 coming-of-age comedy, "No Little Affair," in which he played a teenaged photographer (a role originally intended again for Broderick) who becomes infatuated with an older woman (Demi Moore). He followed this with a supporting