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‘WILL & GRACE’ FANS ARE STILL UNSURE IF ERIC MCCORMACK IS GAY REAL LIFE

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'I WOULDN'T GET THIS ROLE TODAY': WILL & GRACE'S STRAIGHT 'GAY' STAR

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MA CHARACTERS    WILL TMAN PORTRAYED BY: ERIC MCCORMACKA GAY LAWYER WHO SHAR AN APARTMENT WH HIS STRAIGHT BT IEND GRACE. ATHLETILLY CHALLENGED: SHOWN DIFFERENT EPISOS. HE N'T SWIM, HE'S EQUALLY EPT AT SOCCER, AND HE N'T EVEN W A BASKETBALL GAME AGAST A LTLE KID. IRONILLY, JACK HAS BETTER ATHLETIC SKILLS THAN HIM. BUT NOT TOO GAY: A MON CRICISM OF THIS SHOW REGARDG WILL'S LACK OF LOVE LIFE. IRONIC BEE ERIC MCCORMACK IS STRAIGHT BUT JOHN BARROWMAN, WHO IS GAY, TTED FOR THE CHARACTER OF WILL AND WAS SAID TO BE "NOT GAY ENOUGH," WHICH IS ASTONISHG TO ANYONE WHO HAS MET HIM PERSON. BUTT-MONKEY: SOMETIM, PECIALLY LATER SEASONS. HE TENDS TO SUFFER BAD LUCK AND GETS MA FUN OF A LOT. CHARACTERIZATN MARCH ON: IN EARLY SEASONS, HE NSTANTLY MOCKS AND BELTL JACK FOR BEG TOO GIRLY AND EFFEMMATE (PECIALLY SEASON 1, WHERE 'S EQUENTLY LAMPSHAD). THIS GETS MUCH LS PRONOUNCED AS THE SEASONS GO ON. CLOUDCUCKOOLANR'S MR: BEG THE SANT CHARACTER, HE OFTEN ACTS LIKE THIS TO ALL HIS IENDS. CONTROL FREAK: HE IS PECIALLY NTROLLG WHEN TO GRACE AND HER LIFE, AND OFTEN LAMPSHAD.WILL: I'M RIGID, I'M PASSIVE-AGGRSIVE, I'M NTROLLG.GRACE: NEWS FLASH— WILL'S NTROLLG. YEAH, GOT THAT HMAN YEAR OF LLEGE WHEN YOU TOLD ME WHAT ELECTIV TO TAKE. FUNNY, 13 YEARS LATER, AND I'M STILL HERE. DEADPAN SNARKER: PROBABLY THE BIGGT ONE THE GROUP. HE HAS A DRY SENSE OF HUMOR AND NOT AAID TO SHOW . FLANRIZATN: HE BEME MUCH WHIER, AND HIS CAMP GAY TENNCI CREASED.FOUR-TEMPERAMENT ENSEMBLE: MELANCHOLIC.--> GAY BT FRIEND: TO GRACE. HELLO, ATTORNEY!: MANY CHARACTERS MENT HOW GOOD-LOOKG HE IS (THE ONLY EXCEPTN IS JACK WHO ALWAYS MAK FUN OF WILL'S APPEARANCE). INPATIBLE ORIENTATN: IT'S WHY HE AND GRACE AREN'T A ROMANTIC UPLE EVEN THOUGH THEY RE EPLY FOR EACH OTHER.GRACE: I WANTED TO RAISE THE KIDS JEWISH, YOU WANTED TO SLEEP WH MEN. WILL: I DO ENJOY THAT. MASCULE GIRL, FEME BOY: FEME BOY TO GRACE'S MASCULE GIRL. GRACE IS A BRASH, LAZY, SLOVENLY, BIG EATER WHO FDS GAY PORN TO BE EXCG THE SAME WAY A LOT OF MEN FEEL ABOUT LBIANS. WILL'S IALLY STRAIGHT GAY BUT LATER FLANRIZED TO CAMP GAY, IS MUCH MORE LM AND RATNAL (IALLY,) UPTIGHT AND RATED THEIR ENTIRE APARTMENT AND DO ALL THE OKG AND CLEANG. NEAT FREAK: HE'S THE ONLY ONE WHO R ABOUT CLEANG THE HOE, NTRAST TO THE MSY GRACE. NICE GUY: AS WELL AS BEG THE MOST MATURE, HE'S ALSO THE NICT THE MA ST. WHILE HE N BE SNARKY, HE'S A SURPRISGLY LOYAL AND RG IEND. THE NOT-LOVE INTERT: TO GRACE, ’S THE PREMISE OF THE SHOW. ONLY SANE MAN: BETWEEN JACK, KAREN AND GRACE, WILL IS THE STRAIGHT MAN OF THE GROUP. PLATONIC CO-PARENTG: THE REVIVAL ENDS WH HIM AND GRACE BUYG A HOE THE 'BURBS TOGETHER, SO THEY N MOVE THERE AND RAISE GRACE'S SON AND WILL'S DGHTER UNR ONE ROOF. THEY KNOW OTHERS MIGHT THK 'S WEIRD, BUT 'S THE BT, MOST STABLE LIFE THEY N PROVI. PLATONIC LIFE-PARTNERS: THIS TROPE WAS FORMERLY KNOWN AS "THE STRAIGHT WILL & GRACE." RED ONI, BLUE ONI: THE BLUE ONI BIG TIME TO ANY CHARACTER HE TERACTS WH (MOSTLY GRACE OR JACK). SAVVY GUY, ENERGETIC GIRL: THE LEVELHEAD, UPTIGHT SAVVY GUY TO GRACE'S NROTIC, OVEREMOTNAL ENERGETIC GIRL. SCREAMS LIKE A LTLE GIRL: WHEN GRACE'S APARTMENT GOT BURGLED.WILL: DID I JT SCREAM LIKE A WOMAN? GRACE: DON'T FLATTER YOURSELF. YOU SCREAMED LIKE A GIRL. SENSIVE GUY AND MANLY MAN: THE MANLY MAN TO JACK'S FEME GUY, BUT ONLY BEE PRETTY MUCH ANYONE IS MANLY PARED TO JACK. HE ALSO MOCKS JACK FOR BEG TOO IN TOUCH WH HIS FEME SI. STRAIGHT GAY: AT FIRST WILL WAS A MOSTLY-S-NORMAL GUY WHO HAD THE OCSNAL MP ELEMENT POP UP FOR LGHS - DURG A TIME WHEN THE WORLD HEARD ‘GAY’ AND THOUGHT OF SOMEONE LIKE JACK. FAST FORWARD A , THOUGH, AND HE'S A CAMP GAY WHOSE BUDDY JT HAPPENS TO BE DOUBLY SO. STRAIGHT MAN: HE'S MOST OFTEN THE SER FOIL TO THE OTHERS' ANTICS. SUBVERTED AT THE SAME TIME. YOU ARE FAT: JACK REGULARLY LLS WILL FAT, BUT IS THE ONLY ONE TO DO SO (MOSTLY BEE 'S VERY OBV WILL IS ANYTHG BUT).     GRACE ADLER PORTRAYED BY: DEBRA MSGWILL’S BT IEND AND ROOMMATE, SHE’S A STRAIGHT TERR SIGNER. A-CUP ANGST: AS OFTEN MOCKED BY KAREN. AAID OF NEEDL: GRACE IS SO AAID OF THEM THAT SHE N'T EVEN SAY "RGO," BEE HE WAS A BEATLE AND THAT SOUNDS LIKE "NEEDLE." ALL JEWS ARE CHEAPSKAT: SHE IS VERY CHEAP, OFTEN HOARDS ON EE STUFF, AND EVEN STEALS. BIG EATER: GRACE LOV TO EAT, TO THE POT WHERE HER LARGE APPETE IS A RUNNG GAG. BUTT-MONKEY: LIKE WILL, SHE IS THE BUTT OF MANY JOK ALL THE TIME, PECIALLY BY KAREN. COMPETN FREAK: IN A FIRST-SEASON EPISO, GRACE IS SHOWN TO BE SO PETIVE THAT HER IENDS STOP G OVER TO HER AND WILL'S GAME NIGHTS. DEADPAN SNARKER: IN A SHOW WHERE EVERYONE IS FOND OF SARSM AND SULTG EBACKS, GRACE HAS A FEW MOMENTS AS WELL. FAG HAG: FOR WILL. FIERY REDHEAD: OFTEN WHEN SHE GETS UPSET. SHE GENERALLY TENDS TO BE VERY LOUD AND EMOTNAL. FLANRIZATN: SHE BEME MUCH MORE NROTIC AND SELF-OBSSEDFOUR-TEMPERAMENT ENSEMBLE: PHLEGMATIC.--> FRDIAN EXCE: HER SELF-CENTERED NATURE IS IMPLIED TO BE THE RULT OF HER MOTHER'S OWN EGO AND SIRE FOR THE SPOTLIGHT. HOLLYWOOD TONE-DEAF: SUBVERTED. IN REAL LIFE, DEBRA MSG HAS A PERFECTLY SERVICEABLE, IF NOT GEO, SGG VOICE. HER CHARACTER GRACE KEPT TO THE TUN RELATIVELY WELL, BUT ALWAYS STARTED OUT WAY TOO HIGH, AND WHEN THE KEY OF A SONG WAS SUPPOSED TO CHANGE, SHE CHANGED TOO FAR. A LOT OF POOR SGERS ACTUALLY DO SG THIS WAY. GRACE WAS ALSO CREDIBLY LOUD. INFORMED JUDAISM: SHE'S JEWISH BUT NOT OBSERVANT. IT VERY OCSNALLY UP, SUCH AS IF SHE EVER HAS TO PARTICIPATE ANYTHG RELATED TO CHRISTIANY AND SHE MAK A HASH OF THGS BEE SHE HAS NO IA WHAT'S GOG ON. IT'S ALL ABOUT ME: ESPECIALLY LATER SEASONS WHERE SHE’S ALMOST AS BAD AS JACK. WHILE JACK DON’T EVEN TRY TO HI HIS SELF-ABSORBED NATURE, GRACE OFF MORE AS A BCH SHEEP'S CLOTHG. IN "THE UNSKABLE MOMMY ADLER," GRACE LOOKS BACK ON HER OLD JOURNALS AND DISVERS THAT SHE'S MAND TO THE CENTER OF ATTENTN EVERY RELATNSHIP SHE'S EVER BEEN , AND BE UPSET (THOUGH DON'T STICK). THE LAD-ETTE: SHE'S A BRASH, LAZY, SLOVENLY BIG EATER WHO FDS GAY PORN TO BE EXCG THE SAME WAY A LOT OF MEN FEEL ABOUT LBIANS. LAST HET ROMANCE: TO WILL. MASCULE GIRL, FEME BOY: MASCULE GIRL TO WILL'S FEME BOY. GRACE IS THE LAD-ETTE. WILL IALLY STRAIGHT GAY BUT LATER FLANRIZED TO CAMP GAY, IS MUCH MORE LM AND RATNAL (IALLY,) UPTIGHT AND RATED THEIR ENTIRE APARTMENT AND DO ALL THE OKG AND CLEANG. MIDDLE CHILD SYNDROME: PLAYED WH. DPE HER SECURI ABOUT BEG THE UN-FAVOURE, SHE NSIRS HERSELF THE BT ONE OF THE ADLER SISTERS.GRACE: YOU ARE THE SCREW-UP OLR SISTER. JOYCE IS THE HEAVY YOUNGER SISTER. AND I AM THE PERFECT ONE THE MIDDLE. I AM THE GLUE THAT HOLDS YOU TWO LOSERS TOGETHER. MOR FLAW, MAJOR BREAKUP: SHE TRIED REALLY HARD TO AVOID THIS WHEN SHE FOUND OUT HER BOYIEND HAD SIX TO (MOSTLY BEE HE WAS ABLE TO LOOK PAST A FUNNY MOLE ON HER LIP, AND SHE DIDN'T WANT TO APPEAR MORE SHALLOW THAN HIM,) BUT WHEN HE REVEALED HE HAD SIX TO AND WAS A CELTICS FAN, SHE THREW HIM OUT. WILL ALSO LLED HER OUT ON THIS DURG ONE OF THEIR MORE SER FIGHTS, POTG OUT THAT SHE'LL LOOK FOR ANY EXCE, SUCH AS A "WEIRD CHT HAIR PATTERN," TO BREAK UP WH A GUY. MY FRIENDS... AND ZOIDBERG: JACK WOULD MONLY ADDRS THE OTHER THREE AS "LADI... AND GRACE." THE NOT-LOVE INTERT: TO WILL, ’S THE PREMISE OF THE SHOW. PLATONIC CO-PARENTG: THE REVIVAL ENDS WH HER AND WILL BUYG A HOE THE 'BURBS TOGETHER, SO THEY N MOVE THERE AND RAISE GRACE'S SON AND WILL'S DGHTER UNR ONE ROOF. THEY KNOW OTHERS MIGHT THK 'S WEIRD, BUT 'S THE BT, MOST STABLE LIFE THEY N PROVI. PLATONIC LIFE-PARTNERS: THIS TROPE WAS FORMERLY KNOWN AS "THE STRAIGHT WILL & GRACE." RED ONI, BLUE ONI: RED TO WILL'S BLUE. SAVVY GUY, ENERGETIC GIRL: THE NROTIC, OVEREMOTNAL ENERGETIC GIRL TO WILL'S LEVELHEAD, UPTIGHT SAVVY GUY. SMALL NAME, BIG EGO: SHE N BE VERY VA. TOMBOY AND GIRLY GIRL: TOMBOY TO KAREN’S GIRLY GIRL. GRACE IS BRASH, UNLADYLIKE AND GLUTTONO WHILE KAREN IS A STYLISH RICH BCH WHO ALWAYS SULTS GRACE’S CLOTHG CHOIC. TOOK A LEVEL JERKASS: SHE WAS ORIGALLY NROTIC BUT WELL MEANG, BUT LATER SEASONS SHE BE MUCH MORE SHALLOW AND SELFISH. THE UN-FAVOURE: SHE VELOPS A PLEX OVER THIS WH BOTH HER FATHER AND HER MOTHER DIFFERENT EPISOS. UNSYMPATHETIC COMEDY PROTAGONIST: SOMETIM. JT BARELY HAS ENOUGH MORALS TO NOT BE A JERKASS, BUT STILL BROKE UP WH SOMEONE FOR HAVG AN EXTRA TOE, ADMTED THAT WAS BEE SHE WAS SHALLOW, THEN ASKED FOR SYMPATHY. THE SHOW TRIED TO GIVE HER A FRDIAN EXCE LATER ON WHEN 'S REVEALED THAT HER FATHER'S BT IEND MOLTED HER AS A TEENAGER WHICH ATTEMPTED TO EXPLA WHY SHE'S ALWAYS LOOKG FOR EXC TO BREAK UP WH GUYS-BEE SHE'S AAID OF THE SAME THG HAPPENG TO HER AGA.     KAREN WALKER PORTRAYED BY: MEGAN MULLALLYA RICH, PERPETUALLY DNK SOCIALE WHO "WORKS" AS GRACE'S ASSISTANT. THE ALHOLIC: SHE'S PERPETUALLY DNK, AND N RARELY BE SEEN WHOUT A GLASS HER HAND. AMBIGUO GENR INTY: SHE DROPS THE OCSNAL JOKE THAT SHE MIGHT HAVE BEEN BORN MALE OR THAT SHE MIGHT BE TERSEX. AW, LOOK! THEY REALLY DO LOVE EACH OTHER: WHILE NEVER FULLY SEEN, DUE TO HIM BEG THE GHOST, KAREN MAY HAVE MARRIED STANLEY FOR HIS MONEY, 'S OFTEN SHOWN THAT SHE DO GENUELY LOVE HIM, AND WAS PLETELY VASTATED AND BETRAYED WHEN WAS REVEALED HE HAD FAKED HIS ATH. SHE ALSO HAS HER NICE MOMENTS TO GRACE AND EVEN HER MAID ROSAR, SPE HER UAL VRLIC BT BUDS RELATNSHIP WH THEM. BAD BOSS: TO ROSAR AND ALL HER EMPLOYE, BUT ’S PLAYED FOR LGHS. BOOB-BASED GAG: THERE ARE SEVERAL JOK ABOUT HER BREASTS AND 'S MENTNED THEY ARE THE ONLY PART OF HER THAT SHE DIDN'T NEED TO HAVE SURGILLY ALTERED. BREAKOUT CHARACTER: BY FAR THE MOST MEMORABLE AND POPULAR CHARACTER ON THE SHOW. ORIGALLY A SUPPORTG CHARACTER, SHE BE A MORE PROMENT PART OF THE SHOW BASED ON VIEWER REACTN. BTAL HONTY: A FIRM PRACTNER OF THIS. CLOUDCUCKOOLANR: SHE'S ALSO PERPETUALLY STONED OUT OF HER MD, SO SHE'S GOT A SOMEWHAT UNORTHODOX WORLD-VIEW. COOL AND UNUAL PUNISHMENT: KAREN THROWS A WILD PARTY AND TRASH WILL'S APARTMENT. HER PUNISHMENT? WILL NI KAREN HER AFTERNOON MARTI (A.K.A. "LUNCH") — AND MAK HER LOOK AT GRACE'S ENDLS HONEYMOON PHOTOS.KAREN: (TO WILL) I HATE YOU! GRACE: ROLL ONE: MY LUGGAGE! IN ANOTHER EPISO, KAREN AND JACK ARE G UP WH SOME TYPE OF REVENGE AGAST THE ENGLISH LORRAE FSTER FOR STEALG KAREN'S HBAND. JACK'S IA? MAKE HER WATCH THE AMERIN VERSN OF ANYTHG BRISH. ANOTHER TIME, GRACE FORC KAREN (WHO JT WENT ON A SEVERAL-THOAND-DOLLAR SHOPPG SPREE) TO CUT BACK ON HER SPENDG HABS BY THREATENG TO CUT UP PART OF THE SWEATER SET SHE JT BOUGHT.KARAN: NO! YOU KILL ONE PIECE AND THE WHOLE ENSEMBLE DI! GRACE: MAYBE I'LL JT START LABEL. KAREN: NO! HONEY THAT'S THE BEST PART! (VERS MOUTH ABJECT HORROR) NO.... GRACE: (MOVG SCISSORS A CUTTG MOTN) DAH DAH! DAH DAH! DAH NAH DAH NAH DAH NAH... CUTE, BUT CAPHONIC: KAREN'S VOICE IS PHYSILLY PAFUL. HER VOICE WAS RELATIVELY NORMAL THE FIRST FEW EPISOS, BEFORE FLANRIZATN TURNED KAREN OM A DEADPAN SNARKER TO THE MOST OUTLANDISH CHARACTER ON THE SHOW. DEADPAN SNARKER: "HONEY, TACT IS FOR PEOPLE WHO AREN’T WTY ENOUGH TO BE SARSTIC." DEPRAVED BISEXUAL: THIS IS PLAYED FOR LGHS RATHER THAN ED FOR ANY SER PLOTS, THOUGH. SHE SEEMS TO BE MORE ALONG THE L OF ANYTHG THAT MOV. DID YOU THK I CAN'T FEEL?: SCE KAREN SNARKS ALL THE TIME, THE OTHER CHARACTERS ALMOST NEVER TAKE HER SERLY, EVEN WHEN SHE'S GENUELY TRYG TO HELP THEM. SHE BE FUR AND UPSET WHENEVER THIS OCCURS, AND ON ONE OCSN EVEN QU WORKG FOR GRACE AFTER THE LATTER REFED TO GIVE HER CRED FOR AN TERR SIGN SHE HAD DONE AFTER GRACE BAILED ON . THE DZ: JTIFIED, AS SHE’S UALLY DNK AND AT LEAST SOME OF IS OBFTG STUPIDY. EVEN THE GIRLS WANT HER: KAREN HAS A GREAT RACK. NO, LIKE, A REALLY GREAT RACK. GAY, STRAIGHT, WHATEVER, NO ONE IS IMMUNE TO KAREN'S BOOBS AND THE SHOW TAK FULL ADVANTAGE OF THIS FACT. EVERYONE HAS STANDARDS: SHE IS A GOLD DIGGER, BUT NOT A HOOKER. SEX FOR LUXURI, BUT NOT MONEY. FAG HAG: FOR JACK. THE FASHNISTA: OFTEN SULTS GRACE'S FASHN STYLE. FLANRIZATN: HER SHRILLNS AND ADDICTNS.FOUR-TEMPERAMENT ENSEMBLE: CHOLERIC.--> FRDIAN EXCE: SHE HAD A BAD CHILDHOOD DUE TO A DIFFICULT RELATNSHIP WH HER MOTHER, A N ARTIST WHO VOLVED HER HER SCHEM. THE FRIEND NOBODY LIK: SHE HAS A GOOD IENDSHIP WH WILL AND GRACE (PECIALLY THE LATTER) BUT THEY OFTEN FD HER ANNOYG AND JT PUT UP WH HER. FUNCTNAL ADDICT: KAREN IS BY FAR THE MOST HEAVILY ADDICTED DNK ON TELEVISN. GOLD DIGGER: SHE MARRIED STAN FOR HIS MONEY. HIDN DEPTHS: IN A FEW EPISOS, KAREN MONSTRAT THAT SHE'S NOT PLETELY SELF-CENTERED. IN ONE STANCE, GRACE BLEW OFF HER MARAL ADVICE WHOUT EVEN ACKNOWLEDGG THAT SHE MIGHT HAVE A POT, WHICH UPSET HER EPLY. SHE ALSO VALU GRACE, JACK, AND EVEN WILL AS HER CLOST IENDS, AND DO LOVE STAN. HUGE GUY, TY GIRL: WH HER HBAND, THE MORBIDLY OBE STAN. IF YOU EVER DO ANYTHG TO HURT HIM: IN THE REVIVAL, SHE GIV THIS SPEECH TO JACK’S SOON-TO-BE-HBAND ESTEFAN RIGHT BEFORE THEIR WEDDG. INSULT BACKFIRE:JACK: YOU'RE EVIL AND SHALLOW. KAREN: COMPLIMENTS? SO EARLY THE DAY? I WAS YOUNG AND NEED THE MONEY: SHE ONCE STARRED A FETISH FILM LLED NEXT TO GODLS BEE SHE WAS SPERATE FOR MONEY. APPARENTLY SHE DIDN'T ACTUALLY GET NAKED, JT ACTED AS THE DOMATRIX. JERK WH A HEART OF GOLD: IN A RATHER TWISTED WAY. LADY DNK: DEPENDG ON IF SHE'S DNK OR ON PILLS, SHE N BE THIS OR HAPPY-GO-LUCKY. MASCULE GIRL, FEME BOY: MASCULE GIRL TO JACK'S FEME BOY. THEY ARE WILL AND GRACE UP TO ELEVEN (JACK IS OBSSED WH FASHN AND JEWELRY, KAREN IS A VLENT DNK.) MISTAKEN FOR PROSTUTE: IN PART ONE OF "A.I.: ARTIFICIAL INSEMATN", A MAN AT A BAR NAMED LNEL ASSUM SHE IS A PROSTUTE BASED ON HER BODY AND DRS. NARCISSIST: VERY MUCH SO, AND ONE OF THE REASONS SHE GETS ALONG WH THE EQUALLY NARCISSISTIC JACK. OLD SHAME: IN-UNIVERSE, HER DOMATRIX PORNSTAR TURN. PARENTAL NEGLECT: TOWARDS HER STEP-CHILDREN MASON AND OLIVIA. SHE DON’T EVEN REMEMBER THEIR NAM AND WHAT THEY LOOK LIKE. PET THE DOG: A FEW EPISOS SHOW THAT THERE'S MORE TO HER THAN SNARK AND SEX: IN A SEASON ONE EPISO, KAREN MISS HER PERD AND FEARS SHE MIGHT BE PREGNANT. SHE'S NOT, BUT IS CLEARLY UPSET ABOUT THE FACT (THOUGH SHE TRI TO HI ), PROMPTG JACK TO GIVE HER A FORTG HUG. AFTER HE LEAV, SHE LLS STAN AND GENUELY ASKS TO SPEAK TO HER STEPCHILDREN. ONE EPISO HAD GRACE STGGLG WH LEO'S CISN TO STAY AI TO NTUE HIS WORK. KAREN IS THE ONE WHO ENDS UP GIVG HER THE BT ADVICE POSSIBLE, AND EVEN TELLS GRACE THAT WHILE SHE MAK FUN OF HER, SHE DO LOVE HER. A LATE EPISO HAS KAREN SIGN A NURSERY FOR A PAIR OF CLIENTS, PROVG THAT SHE'S PICKED UP SOME KNOWLEDGE OF TERR RATG WH HER WORK OVER THE YEARS. WHEN GRACE STEALS THE CRED FOR THE NURSERY, KAREN IS GENUELY UPSET. A CHRISTMAS EPISO REVEALS THAT AT GRACE ADLER DIGNS, KAREN GIV THE HOLIDAY BON TO GRACE! THE EPISO WHICH FOCED ON KAREN'S BIRTHDAY REVEALS THAT SHE'S NEVER VED WILL, GRACE, OR JACK TO ANY OF THE LAVISH PARTI THAT MARK THE OCSN. WHEN THEY FALLY PRS HER AS TO WHY, SHE NFS THAT IF SHE VED THEM, THEY MIGHT NOT TAKE HER TO A CHEAP, LOY RTRANT TO CELEBRATE THEIR OWN WAY—AND THAT'S THE THG SHE LOOKS MOST FORWARD TO ON HER BIRTHDAYS EVERY YEAR. PLASTIC BCH: SHE HAS BEEN MENTNED TO HAVE UNRGONE SMETIC SURGERY A FEW TIM AND IS A SHALLOW, GOLD-DIGGG JERK. PLATONIC LIFE-PARTNERS: WH JACK. PRETTY MK: LOVED TO WEAR FURS. HER VERY FIRST SCENE WAS HER SHOWG UP A MK AT. RICH BCH: SHE'S FILTHY RICH AND UALLY NOT VERY NICE, THOUGH MORE BEE SHE'S TOTALLY TACTLS THAN OUTRIGHT MALIC. SASSY SECRETARY: SHE'S THIS TO GRACE, THOUGH GRACE RARELY REQUIR HER TO DO ANY ACTUAL WORK BEE HER BS NTACTS ARE THE ONLY THG KEEPG GRACE'S BS AFLOAT. SEXY SECRETARY: SHE'S ATTRACTIVE, CHARISMATIC, STYLISH, AND NO ONE IS IMMUNE TO KAREN'S BOOBS. SERIAL SPOE: SHE HAS BEEN MARRIED FOUR TIM. S ARCH-NEMIS: CANDICE BERGEN, LORRAE FSTER, BEVERLEY LLIE, ETC. TOMBOY AND GIRLY GIRL: GIRLY GIRL TO GRACE’S TOMBOY. GRACE IS BRASH, UNLADYLIKE AND GLUTTONO WHILE KAREN IS A STYLISH RICH BCH WHO ALWAYS SULTS GRACE’S CLOTHG CHOIC. TOO KKY TO TORTURE: IN SEASON 9 SHE SAYS THAT TAK SO MUCH TO EAK HER OUT THAT SHE'S NEVER HAD TO E HER SAFE WORD DURG KKY SEX GAM WH STAN.GRACE: HOW ULD YOU NOT REMEMBER YOUR SAFE WORD?! KAREN: WELL, HONEY, I'VE NEVER ED ! IT TAK A LOT FOR THIS LTLE LAMB CHOP TO FEEL UNSAFE! UGLY GUY, HOT WIFE: HOT WIFE TO STAN'S UGLY GUY (OR SO WE'RE TOLD). UNSYMPATHETIC COMEDY PROTAGONIST: A DNKEN, FILTHY RICH JERK WHO NEVERTHELS LIVERS THE MOST LGHS OM THE DIENCE. UPPER-CLASS TW: SHE’S A MULTI-LNAIRS AND APPEARS TO BE PLETELY CLUELS ABOUT HOW NORMAL PEOPLE LIVE. VAGUE AGE: AS PART OF HER FLANRIZATN. IN EARLY EPISOS, KAREN SIMPLY ACKNOWLEDGED THAT SHE EQUENTLY HAD PLASTIC SURGERY. AS TIME WENT BY, THOUGH, THE WRERS STARTED DROPPG HTS THAT SHE WAS SOMEHOW HER EIGHTI AT LEAST (SHE MENTED ABOUT REMEMBERG WAG ON BREADL DURG THE GREAT DEPRSN), AND ED BOOZE AND PILLS TO SOMEHOW STOP THE AGG PROCS ALTOGETHER. VOL EVOLUTN: HER VOICE BE MORE SHRILL AND HIGH-PCHED AS TIME GO ON.     JACK MCFARLAND PORTRAYED BY: SEAN HAYA CLOSE IEND OF WILL’S, HE’S AN ECCENTRIC AND FLAMBOYANTLY GAY WANNABE ACTOR. ALL GAYS ARE PROMISCUO: HE SLEEPS AROUND A LOT. ALL GAYS LOVE THEATER: ALSO A PERFORMANCE ARTIST SOMETIM. ATTENTN WHORE: HE CERTALY LOV TO BE THE CENTER OF ATTENTN. BREAKOUT CHARACTER: THE 2ND MOST POPULAR AFTER KAREN. MANY FANS NSIR THE SHOW BEG LLED JACK AND KAREN. BRILLIANT, BUT LAZY: HE HAS MANY TALENTS IF JT APPLIED HIMSELF SUCH AS THE TIME HE BEME A MALE NURSE. HE'S ACTUALLY A TALENTED MICIAN WHEN HE BOTHERS TO BE. HE N ALSO WRE REALLY GOOD HOMO-EROTIC NOVELS BUT ONLY WHEN HE'S PRSED. HE ALSO N BE FAIRLY GOOD AT SPORTS, AT LEAST PARED TO WILL. CAMP GAY: SHAMELSLY FLAMBOYANT AND MPY EVERY WAY POSSIBLE. WILL ACTUALLY SAID ONCE, "IS THERE ANY PART OF THE STEREOTYPE YOU DON'T F?" CLOUDCUCKOOLANR: SOMETIM. JACK: WHO NEEDS BRAS WHEN YOU N LICK YOUR OWN EYEBROWS. DEADPAN SNARKER: TENDS TO MAKE SASSY WISECRACKS QUE REGULARLY. THE DZ: A MALE EXAMPLE OF A HYPERACTIVE AIRHEAD. FICTNAL FAN, REAL CELEBRY: JACK'S OBSSN WH CHER EQUENTLY UP AS A SOURCE OF HUMOR ON THE SHOW. HE HAS BEEN TRICKED TO A SUATN TWICE WH THE PROMISE OF MEETG CHER AND ONCE JUMPED DOWN A GARBAGE CHUTE AFTER HIS CHER DOLL. IRONILLY, HE NFED THE REAL CHER FOR A DRAG QUEEN WHEN HE MET HER ONE EPISO. FLANRIZATN: HIS SHRILLNS AND IDCY AND HIS CAMP GAY TENNCI CREASED.FOUR-TEMPERAMENT ENSEMBLE: SANGUE.--> GAY BT FRIEND: TO KAREN. GIFTEDLY BAD: MOSTLY DUE TO THE FACT THAT HE'S SO WRAPPED UP HIMSELF AND HAS TO BE THE CENTER OF ATTENTN. HIDN DEPTHS: JACK PROV TO BE MORE THAN A SPOILED MANCHILD WHEN HELPS WILL E OUT AND BARRY BEE A REAL GAY. HYPOCRE: WHEN THEY FIRST MET, JACK MOCKED WILL FOR BEG NIAL ABOUT HIS SEXUALY AND PRSURED HIM TO E OUT TO HIS PARENTS. YEARS LATER, WILL WOULD FD OUT THAT JACK HIMSELF HAD YET TO E OUT TO HIS OWN MOTHER. IF IT'S YOU, IT'S OKAY: HE'S REPULSED BY HETEROSEXUALY, BUT HE LIK EXPERIMENTG WH KAREN. IN TOUCH WH HIS FEME SI: MANY JOK ON THE SHOW ARE ABOUT HOW EFFEMATE HE IS. IT'S ALL ABOUT ME: ALWAYS TRI TO MAKE EVERYTHG ABOUT HIM. HE DON’T EVEN TRY TO HI . JERK WH A HEART OF GOLD: ALWAYS VERY SELF-ABSORBED AND NARCISSISTIC, BUT OCSNALLY SHOWS THAT HE R ABOUT HIS IENDSHIP WH WILL AND/OR KAREN. KEET: HE'S ALWAYS CHEERFUL AND VERY VERY ENERGETIC. LARGE HAM: AS PART OF HIS MPY CHARACTER. LOVG BULLY: HE REGULARLY MOCKS AND SULTS WILL, BUT 'S ALSO IMPLIED THAT HE HAS A CSH ON HIM, AT LEAST THE ORIGAL SERI. LE, YOU ARE MY FATHER: IN SEASON 3 HE FDS OUT HE HAS A SON, ELLTT, CREATED OM SPERM HE DONATED AT THE AGE OF 17. MANCHILD: HE'S IRRPONSIBLE, DON'T HAVE A STABLE JOB, AND ACTS LIKE A SPOILED BRATTY KID. MASCULE GIRL, FEME BOY: FEME BOY TO KAREN'S MASCULE GIRL. THEY ARE WILL AND GRACE UP TO ELEVEN (JACK IS OBSSED WH FASHN AND JEWELRY, KAREN IS A VLENT DNK.) NARCISSIST: VERY MUCH SO, AND ONE OF THE REASONS HE GETS ALONG WH THE EQUALLY NARCISSISTIC KAREN. PLATONIC LIFE-PARTNERS: WH KAREN. REALLY GETS AROUND: IT'S IMPLIED HE HAS UNTLS SHORT-TERM LOVERS EVERY EPISO. RED ONI, BLUE ONI: THE RED TO WILL'S BLUE. SENSIVE GUY AND MANLY MAN: THE SENSIVE GUY TO WILL'S MANLY MAN, ALTHOUGH PRETTY MUCH ANYONE IS MANLY PARED TO JACK. WILL ALSO MOCKS JACK FOR BEG TOO IN TOUCH WH HIS FEME SI. SMALL NAME, BIG EGO: ABOUT HIS ACTG REER ALTHOUGH EVERYONE TELLS HIM HE HAS NO TALENT. STRAW LOSER: HE'S OFTEN ED TO SHOW HOW BETTER WILL IS BY PARISON. LAMPSHAD BY JACK HIMSELF THE REVIVAL: "YOU THK I'M JT YOUR SILLY, RIDICULO LOSER IEND YOU WILL ALWAYS FEEL SUPERR TO".SUPPORTG CHARACTERS

Will & Grace: Created by David Kohan, Max Mutchnick. Wh Eric McCormack, Debra Msg, Megan Mullally, Sean Hay. Gay lawyer Will and straight terr signer Grace share a New York Cy apartment. Their bt iends are gleeful and proud gay Jack and charismatic, filthy-rich, amoral sociale Karen." data-id="ma * will and grace characters gay in real life *

" Fearg for his safety, Hayn remaed quiet about his personal life until 2010 when he publicly me out as homosexual. " Dpe beg straight, McCormack was lled gay slurs bee "of urse, when two guys are that close... They mt be gay.

Durg the terview, host Megyn Kelly asked Turner "is te that you beme a lawyer-- and you beme gay-- bee of Will? " The crge-worthy moment only worsened when after awardg Turner wh tickets to see a live-tapg of the show, Kelly stated she was unsure of Turner's journey toward a law gree but believed "the 'Will & Grace' thg and the gay thg is gog to work out great! In an terview wh Oprah, Sean Hay revealed his favore celebry meo was Matt Damon as Owen, a straight man tryg to sneak his way to the New York Gay Men's Chos and beat Jack out of the top spot.

HOW WILL & GRACE PAVED THE WAY FOR GAY CHARACTERS ON TV

Everyone remembers the basics: bt iends Will, a gay man, and Grace, a straight woman, live and love Manhattan wh their quirkier iends Jack and Karen. Mutchnick and Eisenberg dated real life, and then beme close iends after Mutchnick revealed he was gay.

She also told Kg that McCormack didn't origally want to play a gay character. Actor Sean Hay, who portrayed openly gay character Jack on Will & Grace, didn't e out real life until five years after the show end. More recently, Hay has revealed that he's "ashamed and embarrassed" he stayed the closet for so long when he might have ma a difference young gay people's liv by g out sooner.

HOW TV BROUGHT GAY PEOPLE INTO OUR HOM

Fellow executive producer David Kohan and producer-director Jam Burrows agreed, notg that the show had troduced and normalized gay people for a swath of the public. Out of the four ma Will & Grace st members, the tular pair were the rerved on: openly gay lawyer Will Tman (Eric McCormack) and his (straight-intifyg) terr signer bt iend Grace Adler (Debra Msg). One of the first work seri to regularly feature homosexual characters, Will & Grace was a top-rated h for most of s 1998-2006 n on NBC, wng an Emmy Award for Outstandg Comedy Seri and more trophi for all four members of the ma st.

When Will & Grace premiered 1998, was downright revolutnary that a major broadst work would air a primetime show which two of s four ma characters (Will Tman and Jack McFarland) were openly gay men.

"I didn't have the tools at such a young age to al wh the ramifitns of g out as gay a huge public way. Hay didn't publicly e out as a gay man until 2010, four years after Will & Grace wrapped s ial n.

WILL & GRACE BROKE GROUND FOR GAY REPRENTATN—CAN IT DO IT AGA?

After he saw the Will & Grace pilot 1998, Deamer says he felt "chagred, embarrassed, and vastated" when he realized that the character based on him was picted as "flamboyantly gay, nstantly over the top, promiscuo, and irrponsible.

The ensemble edy seri featured two gay characters—lawyer Will Tman (Eric McCormack) and aspirg actor Jack McFarland (Sean Hay)—and their bt iends, terr signer Grace Adler (Debra Msg) and eccentric sociale Karen Walker (Megan Mullally), whose fun-filled antics were enjoyed by lns of viewers for eight seasons on NBC.

Kohan was a mutual iend who watched their relatnship change and mature over the only relatnship NBC executive Warren Ltlefield was terted , however, was the one wh the gay man livg wh the straight woman.

*BEAR-MAGAZINE.COM* WILL AND GRACE CHARACTERS GAY IN REAL LIFE

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offers passn and wisdom to <a href="><strong>Margot Robbie</strong></a> a moment when her blissful doll-e-to-life fac an existential crisis. Handler seems to know Barbie better than she knows herself, as she should. It’s a moment which the doll lerally meets her maker.</p><p>Perlman, bt known as the sarstic wars Carla om <em>Cheers,</em> appears the <strong>Greta Gerwig</strong>–directed film as Ruth Handler—a real-life legend the toy bs who helped turn Mattel to a global powerhoe, large part thanks to Barbie, troduced 1959. The real Handler died 2002 at the age of 85, so her appearance the movie is more whimsil than realistic. But the movie do clud several tails that are genue. The full tth of her life, many s, is even stranger than even the most die-hard Barbie fans may realize.</p><p class="paywall">Perlman’s character tells Barbie that she had a mastectomy. That’s <a href=">te</a>; Handler had breast ncer the 1970s. She also ed the plastics know-how she’d gathered om years the toy bs to vise prosthetic vic for other women like her and lnched an entirely new bs, <a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Nearly Me,</a> which still sells products today.</p><div class="Contaer-bkChBi byNLHx"></div><p class="paywall">The movie versn of Ruth Handler also bterly allus to her beg forced out of Mattel due to a clash over fancial problems. This is played for lghs, but ’s based on tth as well. The sndal engulfed not jt Handler but others who were employed at the toy manufacturer. “<a href=">4 Ex‐Officers of Mattel Among 5 Indicted on Conspiracy Charg</a>,” read the 1978 headle <em>The New York Tim.</em></p><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad---ntent"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot---ntent" data-no-id="19y6lc"></div></div><p class="paywall">The <em>Tim</em> reported that Handler had been acced of falsifyg “ternal bs rerds ncerng earngs and sal 1971, 1972 and 1973 so that they uld fluence the market price of Mattel stock.” </p><p class="paywall">Handler was a trailblazer an era when society relegated most women to the role of hoewife, and her bs acumen ma her a formidable executive and strategist. Yet as <strong>Rob Gerber</strong> wr her 2009 bgraphy, <em>Barbie and Ruth,</em> “She had also allowed paddg and other falsifyg of the pany books, and her prottatns of nocence, her refal to take rponsibily, ma the prosecutn termed to ph for a severe sentence.”</p><figure class="CneVioEmbedFigure-kCfJjN hdJOda e-vio-embed"><div data-ttid="script-ntaer"></div></figure><p class="paywall">Handler ultimately dropped her ristance and <a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">plead</a> no ntt and was orred to pay $57,000 f and five years of probatn, wh the judge mandatg 500 hours of muny service per year. In <em>Barbie and Ruth,</em> Gerber wr that the judge told Handler her actns were “exploive, parasic, and disgraceful to anythg society.” The thor further characteriz the bed 2,500 hours as “the longt public service sentence ever hand out.”</p><div><div class="ConsumerMarketgUnThemedWrapper-iUTMTf jssHut nsumer-marketg-un nsumer-marketg-un--article-mid-ntent" role="prentatn" aria-hidn="te"><div class="nsumer-marketg-un__slot nsumer-marketg-un__slot--article-mid-ntent nsumer-marketg-un__slot---ntent"></div><div class="journey-un"></div></div></div><p class="paywall">Handler uld have gotten 41 years prison, but she still found her paratively light sentence to be severe. She wanted to create a giveaway program of her Nearly Me prosthetics for unrprivileged ncer patients who might otherwise be unable to afford them, but the judge rejected that proposal. Acrdg to Gerber, after participatg scpuloly tabulated chary work that she found “huiatg,” Handler was eventually assigned the task of g her bs know-how to give other nvicts job trag. The program was nsired a succs, and 1982, the judge agreed to cut short Handler’s sentence by a year and a half.</p><p class="has-dropp paywall">Handler’s creatn of Barbie isn’t closely documented the movie, which tak a more fanciful approach to the toy universe. Var Barbi and Kens exist a separate dimensn where life is idyllic and the problems of the real world seldom terfere. </p><p class="paywall">In the real world, Ruth married her hband, Ellt Handler, 1938, and they started a bs makg home goods, often utilizg plastics. In the 1940s, they entered a partnership wh dtrial signer Harold Matson to create a new bs manufacturg picture am, acrdg to the <a href="><em>Los Angel Tim</em></a><em>.</em> Usg the same materials, they branched off to another enterprise creatg smaller furnishgs—this time for dollho. </p></div></div></div><div class="GridItem-buujkM fVLMby grid--em grid-layout__asi"><div class="StickyBoxWrapper-jfYB kNleGZ sticky-box"><div class="StickyBoxPrimary-dzWDWL cdhYoN sticky-box__primary"><div class="Contaer-bkChBi byNLHx"></div><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--rail"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--rail" data-no-id="qzh0r8"></div></div><div class="ConsumerMarketgUnThemedWrapper-iUTMTf jssHut nsumer-marketg-un nsumer-marketg-un--display-rail" role="prentatn" aria-hidn="te"><div class="nsumer-marketg-un__slot nsumer-marketg-un__slot--display-rail"></div><div class="journey-un"></div></div><div data-attr-viewport-monor="" class="RecircMostPopularWrapper-bRuGTi jkTTgR 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bjczjj grid-layout--adrail narrow wi-adrail"><div class="GridItem-buujkM stRKV grid--em grid-layout__ntent"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa dEQjuV body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p class="paywall">The pany was lled Mattel, a batn of their partner’s last name and her hband’s first. Toys beme the ma event for the firm, and Ruth was spired by their dghter, Barbara, (the namake of Barbie) to create a doll who was a grown-up—not a baby—so that young girls uld e them as projectns of their own future selv.</p><div data-attr-viewport-monor="le-recirc" class="le-recirc-wrapper le-recirc-observer-target-1 viewport-monor-anchor"></div><p class="paywall">“This doll, she med, would have to be lifelike. In other words, Handler believed, would have to have breasts,” the <em>Los Angel Tim</em> wrote s <a href=">2002 obuary for Handler</a>. “When she took the ia to Mattel’s executiv, who were men, they sneered that no mother would buy her dghter a grown-up doll wh a bosom. ‘Our guys all said, ‘Naw, no good,’’ she relled. ‘I tried more than once and nobody was terted, and I gave up.’”</p><p class="paywall">Years passed, and Ruth beme spired aga durg a vatn to Lucerne, Swzerland, 1956. Her then 15-year-old dghter, Barbara, drew her attentn to a plastic doll a toy-shop wdow. The were “Lilli” dolls, which had an hourglass physique and uld be drsed different outfs. Ruth saw potential not jt to sell dolls, but to sell a nearly endls <a href=">array of accsori</a> for those dolls. </p><p class="paywall">There was ltle nocent about the “Lilli” dolls, however. The character “was not primarily a child’s toy Europe. She started life as a <a href=">sex toy</a>,” Gerber wrote <em>Barbie and Ruth.</em> “She origated a ic strip a tawdry gossip-sheet newspaper lled <em>Bild-Zeung.</em> Lilli pursued rich men by strikg provotive pos <a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">revealg cloth</a> and spoutg ic-strip bubbl of <a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">suggtive dialogue.</a>”</p><p class="paywall">The “Lilli” rtoonist, Rehard Bthien, and signer Max Weissbrodt “saw the potential takg Lilli off the page and makg her a lasciv three-dimensnal toy,” Gerber wrote. “Men got Lilli dolls as gag gifts at bachelor parti, put them on their r dashboard, dangled them om the rearview mirror, or gave them to girliends as a suggtive keepsake.”</p><p class="paywall">Handler and Mattel tamed “Lilli” to Barbie, releasg their own versn of the doll 1959. It was a massive h, reportedly sellg around <a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">350,000 uns</a> s first year alone. </p><p class="paywall">“Half of our buyers really didn’t like ,” Ruth Handler told the <a href=">BBC a 1997 terview</a>. “The men felt that women would not buy a doll wh a woman’s body—wh breasts and narrow waistl and narrow ankl, this adult sexy-lookg doll. Men felt that their wiv would not want and that wouldn’t be right for a child to have that. They were wrong. Women, on the other hand, stantly flipped for that doll. The dolls no sooner land on the unter than they were snatched up by the women buyg them for their dghters.”</p><p class="paywall">German manufacturer Greer & Hsser and rival toymakers Louis Marx and Company also apparently flipped. Louis Marx held the “Lilli” license and noticed the siari to their doll, rultg a <a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">1961 lawsu</a> agast Mattel. 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Is Makg a Weird, Wonrful Comeback" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src="></noscript></picture></div></div></span></a></div><div class="SummaryItemContent-eiDYMl XMZX summary-em__ntent summary-em__ntent--no-bric"><a class="SummaryItemHedLk-civM fPFrPI summary-em-trackg__hed-lk summary-em__hed-lk" data-ponent-type="recirc-river" data-recirc-id="em-hed-3" data-recirc-pattern="summary-em" href=" target="_self"><div data-ttid="ClampWrapper" class="ClampWrapper-kZxfkB hTTNGO clamp SummaryItemHedBase-hiFYpQ cQmBqp summary-em__hed"><div class="ClampContent-hilPkr jVhSBH"><div class="SummaryItemHedTag-TWblf gxaOcP" data-ttid="SummaryItemHed">The TV Movie Is Makg a Weird, Wonrful Comeback</div></div></div></a><div class="SummaryItemByleWrapper-boCfbi cuRXdL summary-em__byle-date-in"><div class="SummaryItemBaseByle-fFbXkY gRtaxp summary-em__byle"><div class="summary-em__byle__ntent"><div data-ttid="BylWrapper" class="BylWrapper-KIudk irTIfE byl"><p class="ByleWrapper-jWHrLH iNSiTG byle byl__byle" data-ttid="ByleWrapper" emProp="thor" emType="><span emProp="name" class="ByleNamWrapper-jbHncj fuDQVo"><span data-ttid="ByleName" class="ByleName-kwmrLn cYaBaU byle__name"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ BylePreamble-iJolpQ iUEiRd bIbWCO gnILss byle__preamble">By </span>David Canfield</span></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></li><li><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ RecircMostPopularSummaryItem-jQxxiw bijeSB ad ad--asi"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--asi" data-no-id="7e9isb"></div></div></li></ul><div class="RecircMostPopularFooter-enPjgs eAuebe"></div></div></div></div><div class="StickyBoxPlaceholr-grPmrg dxAvXx"></div></div></div></div><div class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan full-bleed-ad row-mid-ntent-ad"><div class="StickyMidContentAdWrapper-fSBzwl drzyIa ad-stickymidntent"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--mid-ntent should-hold-space"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--mid-ntent" data-no-id="rkmz9"></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK kHBDeH grid grid-margs grid-ems-2 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bjczjj grid-layout--adrail narrow wi-adrail"><div class="GridItem-buujkM stRKV grid--em grid-layout__ntent"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa dEQjuV body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p class="paywall">As a rult, Mattel agreed not to market any dolls unr the “Lilli” name, and G&H agreed not to make any dolls siar appearance to Barbie.</p><div data-attr-viewport-monor="le-recirc" class="le-recirc-wrapper le-recirc-observer-target-2 viewport-monor-anchor"></div><p class="paywall">Dpe spirg her name, Handler's dghter Barbara had plited feelgs about beg lked to the doll. “It was jt very odd,” Barbara told the BBC the same <a href=">1997 terview</a>. “People were g up to me, askg me for my tograph. When people me up and say to me, ‘Oh, you’re the real Barbie,’ I uldn’t unrstand bee that’s jt a name that was given to the doll. A lot of people thought that they moled after me and they ma look like me, and that I was supposed to be . That’s not te.”</p><p class="has-dropp paywall">The tth about Barbie’s orig is dispute, however, wh another woman claimg cred belongs to her own father.</p><p class="paywall"><strong>Ann Ryan,</strong> the dghter of Jack Ryan, who was then vice print of rearch and sign at Mattel, has a podst lled <a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><em>Dream Hoe: The Real Story of Jack Ryan</em></a><em>,</em> which she claims that her late father was wrongly stripped of cred for his role visg the doll. She not that her mother, Barbara, went by the nickname “Barbie.”</p><p class="paywall">Mattel’s <a href=">patent for Barbie</a>, filed July 24, 1959, even has J.W. Ryan’s name listed on the document.</p><p class="paywall">“My father was always obssed wh the image of the perfect woman, and then he married one whose name happened to be Barbie. The choice of the name for the Barbie doll was my father’s, absolutely, not Ruth Handler’s cisn,” Ann Ryan recently <a href=">told the <em>New York Post.</em></a></p><p class="paywall">Jack Ryan actually had five wiv durg his life, cludg a marriage to the sociale celebry Zsa Zsa Gabor. He <a href=">died</a> by suici 1991 after <a href=">sufferg</a> om a severe stroke. Three years after his ath, Ruth Handler published her 1994 tobgraphy, <a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><em>Dream Doll</em></a><em>,</em> which she told her versn of the Barbie doll creatn story.</p><p class="paywall">“My father was ad and wasn’t around to dispute anythg that Ruth had wrten her book, and was very tratg to me and other members of the Ryan fay,” Ann told the <em>New York Post.</em> “What she wrote was overwhelmg and such a shock. It was all bullsh.”</p><p class="paywall">None of this is addrsed by the <em>Barbie</em> movie, by the way. 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And more!</div><div class="SummaryItemByleWrapper-boCfbi cuRXdL summary-em__byle-date-in"><div class="SummaryItemBaseByle-fFbXkY gRtaxp summary-em__byle"><div class="summary-em__byle__ntent"><div data-ttid="BylWrapper" class="BylWrapper-KIudk irTIfE byl"><p class="ByleWrapper-jWHrLH iNSiTG byle byl__byle" data-ttid="ByleWrapper" emProp="thor" emType="><span emProp="name" class="ByleNamWrapper-jbHncj fuDQVo"><span data-ttid="ByleName" class="ByleName-kwmrLn cYaBaU byle__name"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ BylePreamble-iJolpQ iUEiRd bIbWCO gnILss byle__preamble">By </span>Bs Lev</span></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="SummaryItemWrapper-iwvBff jCBznZ summary-em summary-em--has-le summary-em--ARTICLE summary-em--no-in summary-em--text-align-left summary-em--layout-placement-text-below summary-em--layout-posn-image-left summary-em--layout-proportns-50-50 summary-em--si-by-si-align-center summary-em--si-by-si-image-right-mobile-false summary-em--standard SummaryCollectnGridSummaryItem-WColm ciqncl" role="button" tabx="0"><div class="SummaryItemAssetContaer-gwhFFH VOyg summary-em__asset-ntaer"><a class="SummaryItemImageLk-dshqxb cPpCwE summary-em__image-lk summary-em-trackg__image-lk" href=" aria-hidn="te" tabx="-1" data-ponent-type="recirc-river" data-recirc-id="em-image-2" data-recirc-pattern="summary-em" target="_self"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset SummaryItemRponsiveAsset-hjGIGg bDvSkO summary-em__image"><div data-tt="aspect-rat-ntaer" class="AspectRatContaer-bJHpJz hlQxkn"><div class="aspect-rat--overlay-ntaer"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa SummaryItemRponsiveAsset-hjGIGg bDvSkO summary-em__image rponsive-image"><noscript><source media="(max-width: 767px)" srcSet="" siz="100vw"/><source media="(m-width: 768px)" srcSet="" siz="100vw"/><img alt="Judge Phil Colls Case Says “Enough is Enough”" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src="></noscript></picture></div></div></span></a></div><div class="SummaryItemContent-eiDYMl XMZX summary-em__ntent"><div class="RubricWrapper-dKmCNX hXRWeY bric bric--disvery SummaryItemRubric-dguGKN lapGFj summary-em__bric"><span class="RubricName-fVtemz cLxcNi">Style</span></div><a class="SummaryItemHedLk-civM cxlTHI summary-em-trackg__hed-lk summary-em__hed-lk" data-ponent-type="recirc-river" data-recirc-id="em-hed-2" data-recirc-pattern="summary-em" href=" target="_self"><div data-ttid="ClampWrapper" class="ClampWrapper-kZxfkB hTTNGO clamp SummaryItemHedBase-hiFYpQ khUTXM summary-em__hed"><div class="ClampContent-hilPkr jVhSBH"><div class="SummaryItemHedTag-TWblf gxaOcP" data-ttid="SummaryItemHed">Judge Phil Colls Case Says “Enough is Enough”</div></div></div></a><div class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ SummaryItemDek-CRfsi iUEiRd ijSOpT jDyfzW summary-em__k">The rock legend's ex-wife has had her claim dismissed urt. </div><div class="SummaryItemByleWrapper-boCfbi cuRXdL summary-em__byle-date-in"><div class="SummaryItemBaseByle-fFbXkY gRtaxp summary-em__byle"><div class="summary-em__byle__ntent"><div data-ttid="BylWrapper" class="BylWrapper-KIudk irTIfE byl"><p class="ByleWrapper-jWHrLH iNSiTG byle byl__byle" data-ttid="ByleWrapper" emProp="thor" emType="><span emProp="name" class="ByleNamWrapper-jbHncj fuDQVo"><span data-ttid="ByleName" class="ByleName-kwmrLn cYaBaU byle__name"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ BylePreamble-iJolpQ iUEiRd bIbWCO gnILss byle__preamble">By </span>Jordan Hoffman</span></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="SummaryItemWrapper-iwvBff jCBznZ summary-em summary-em--has-le summary-em--ARTICLE summary-em--no-in summary-em--text-align-left summary-em--layout-placement-text-below summary-em--layout-posn-image-left summary-em--layout-proportns-50-50 summary-em--si-by-si-align-center summary-em--si-by-si-image-right-mobile-false summary-em--standard SummaryCollectnGridSummaryItem-WColm ciqncl" role="button" tabx="0"><div class="SummaryItemAssetContaer-gwhFFH VOyg summary-em__asset-ntaer"><a class="SummaryItemImageLk-dshqxb cPpCwE summary-em__image-lk summary-em-trackg__image-lk" href=" aria-hidn="te" tabx="-1" data-ponent-type="recirc-river" data-recirc-id="em-image-3" data-recirc-pattern="summary-em" target="_self"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset SummaryItemRponsiveAsset-hjGIGg bDvSkO summary-em__image"><div data-tt="aspect-rat-ntaer" class="AspectRatContaer-bJHpJz hlQxkn"><div class="aspect-rat--overlay-ntaer"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa SummaryItemRponsiveAsset-hjGIGg bDvSkO summary-em__image rponsive-image"><noscript><source media="(max-width: 767px)" srcSet="" siz="100vw"/><source media="(m-width: 768px)" srcSet="" siz="100vw"/><img alt="At Home Wh LeBron Jam and His Fay" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src="></noscript></picture></div></div></span></a></div><div class="SummaryItemContent-eiDYMl XMZX summary-em__ntent"><div class="RubricWrapper-dKmCNX hXRWeY bric bric--disvery SummaryItemRubric-dguGKN lapGFj summary-em__bric"><span class="RubricName-fVtemz cLxcNi">Celebry</span></div><a class="SummaryItemHedLk-civM cxlTHI summary-em-trackg__hed-lk summary-em__hed-lk" data-ponent-type="recirc-river" data-recirc-id="em-hed-3" data-recirc-pattern="summary-em" href=" target="_self"><div data-ttid="ClampWrapper" class="ClampWrapper-kZxfkB hTTNGO clamp SummaryItemHedBase-hiFYpQ khUTXM summary-em__hed"><div class="ClampContent-hilPkr jVhSBH"><div class="SummaryItemHedTag-TWblf gxaOcP" data-ttid="SummaryItemHed">At Home Wh LeBron Jam and His Fay</div></div></div></a><div class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ SummaryItemDek-CRfsi iUEiRd ijSOpT jDyfzW summary-em__k">The Jam—LeBron, Savannah, Bronny, Bryce, and Zhuri—pose for a first-ever fay photo extravaganza.</div><div class="SummaryItemByleWrapper-boCfbi cuRXdL summary-em__byle-date-in"><div class="SummaryItemBaseByle-fFbXkY gRtaxp summary-em__byle"><div class="summary-em__byle__ntent"><div data-ttid="BylWrapper" class="BylWrapper-KIudk irTIfE byl"><p class="ByleWrapper-jWHrLH iNSiTG byle byl__byle" data-ttid="ByleWrapper" emProp="thor" emType="><span emProp="name" class="ByleNamWrapper-jbHncj fuDQVo"><span data-ttid="ByleName" class="ByleName-kwmrLn cYaBaU byle__name"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ BylePreamble-iJolpQ iUEiRd bIbWCO gnILss byle__preamble">By </span>Dan Adler</span></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ SummaryCollectnGridSummaryItem-WColm ciqncl ad ad--read-more"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--read-more" data-no-id="p37o4o"></div></div><div class="SummaryItemWrapper-iwvBff jCBznZ summary-em summary-em--has-le summary-em--ARTICLE summary-em--no-in summary-em--text-align-left summary-em--layout-placement-text-below summary-em--layout-posn-image-left summary-em--layout-proportns-50-50 summary-em--si-by-si-align-center summary-em--si-by-si-image-right-mobile-false summary-em--standard SummaryCollectnGridSummaryItem-WColm ciqncl" role="button" tabx="0"><div class="SummaryItemAssetContaer-gwhFFH VOyg summary-em__asset-ntaer"><a class="SummaryItemImageLk-dshqxb cPpCwE summary-em__image-lk summary-em-trackg__image-lk" href=" aria-hidn="te" tabx="-1" data-ponent-type="recirc-river" data-recirc-id="em-image-4" data-recirc-pattern="summary-em" target="_self"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset SummaryItemRponsiveAsset-hjGIGg bDvSkO summary-em__image"><div data-tt="aspect-rat-ntaer" class="AspectRatContaer-bJHpJz hlQxkn"><div class="aspect-rat--overlay-ntaer"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa SummaryItemRponsiveAsset-hjGIGg bDvSkO summary-em__image rponsive-image"><noscript><source media="(max-width: 767px)" srcSet="" siz="100vw"/><source media="(m-width: 768px)" srcSet="" siz="100vw"/><img alt="Ezra Miller’s “Msiah” Delns: Insi The Flash Star’s Dark Spiral" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src="></noscript></picture></div></div></span></a></div><div class="SummaryItemContent-eiDYMl XMZX summary-em__ntent"><div class="RubricWrapper-dKmCNX hXRWeY bric bric--disvery SummaryItemRubric-dguGKN lapGFj summary-em__bric"><span class="RubricName-fVtemz cLxcNi">Hollywood</span></div><a class="SummaryItemHedLk-civM cxlTHI summary-em-trackg__hed-lk summary-em__hed-lk" data-ponent-type="recirc-river" data-recirc-id="em-hed-4" data-recirc-pattern="summary-em" href=" target="_self"><div data-ttid="ClampWrapper" class="ClampWrapper-kZxfkB hTTNGO clamp SummaryItemHedBase-hiFYpQ khUTXM summary-em__hed"><div class="ClampContent-hilPkr jVhSBH"><div class="SummaryItemHedTag-TWblf gxaOcP" data-ttid="SummaryItemHed">Ezra Miller’s “Msiah” Delns: Insi <em>The Flash</em> Star’s Dark Spiral</div></div></div></a><div class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ SummaryItemDek-CRfsi iUEiRd ijSOpT jDyfzW summary-em__k">They’re one of Hollywood’s brightt stars—and most troubled actors. Amid safety ncerns, and anxiety over the fate of a $200 ln movie, <em>VF</em> unearths disturbg new tails a saga of grandse sermons, guns, dgs, and alleged asslts and groomg.</div><div class="SummaryItemByleWrapper-boCfbi cuRXdL summary-em__byle-date-in"><div class="SummaryItemBaseByle-fFbXkY gRtaxp summary-em__byle"><div class="summary-em__byle__ntent"><div data-ttid="BylWrapper" class="BylWrapper-KIudk irTIfE byl"><p class="ByleWrapper-jWHrLH iNSiTG byle byl__byle" data-ttid="ByleWrapper" emProp="thor" emType="><span emProp="name" class="ByleNamWrapper-jbHncj fuDQVo"><span data-ttid="ByleName" class="ByleName-kwmrLn cYaBaU byle__name"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ BylePreamble-iJolpQ iUEiRd bIbWCO gnILss byle__preamble">By </span>Julie Miller</span></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="SummaryItemWrapper-iwvBff jCBznZ summary-em summary-em--has-le summary-em--ARTICLE summary-em--no-in summary-em--text-align-left summary-em--layout-placement-text-below summary-em--layout-posn-image-left summary-em--layout-proportns-50-50 summary-em--si-by-si-align-center summary-em--si-by-si-image-right-mobile-false summary-em--standard SummaryCollectnGridSummaryItem-WColm ciqncl" role="button" tabx="0"><div class="SummaryItemAssetContaer-gwhFFH VOyg summary-em__asset-ntaer"><a class="SummaryItemImageLk-dshqxb cPpCwE summary-em__image-lk summary-em-trackg__image-lk" href=" aria-hidn="te" tabx="-1" data-ponent-type="recirc-river" data-recirc-id="em-image-5" data-recirc-pattern="summary-em" target="_self"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset SummaryItemRponsiveAsset-hjGIGg bDvSkO summary-em__image"><div data-tt="aspect-rat-ntaer" class="AspectRatContaer-bJHpJz hlQxkn"><div class="aspect-rat--overlay-ntaer"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa SummaryItemRponsiveAsset-hjGIGg bDvSkO summary-em__image rponsive-image"><noscript><source media="(max-width: 767px)" srcSet="" siz="100vw"/><source media="(m-width: 768px)" srcSet="" siz="100vw"/><img alt="Pl Newman and Joanne Woodward’s Dghters Appreciated the “Fuck Hut” Detail Too" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src="></noscript></picture></div></div></span></a></div><div class="SummaryItemContent-eiDYMl XMZX summary-em__ntent"><div class="RubricWrapper-dKmCNX hXRWeY bric bric--disvery SummaryItemRubric-dguGKN lapGFj summary-em__bric"><span class="RubricName-fVtemz cLxcNi">Hollywood</span></div><a class="SummaryItemHedLk-civM cxlTHI summary-em-trackg__hed-lk summary-em__hed-lk" data-ponent-type="recirc-river" data-recirc-id="em-hed-5" data-recirc-pattern="summary-em" href=" target="_self"><div data-ttid="ClampWrapper" class="ClampWrapper-kZxfkB hTTNGO clamp SummaryItemHedBase-hiFYpQ khUTXM summary-em__hed"><div class="ClampContent-hilPkr jVhSBH"><div class="SummaryItemHedTag-TWblf gxaOcP" data-ttid="SummaryItemHed">Pl Newman and Joanne Woodward’s Dghters Appreciated the “Fuck Hut” Detail Too</div></div></div></a><div class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ SummaryItemDek-CRfsi iUEiRd ijSOpT jDyfzW summary-em__k">“I have to adm I read that and I was like, Go mom,” lghs Clea Newman Sorlund, speakg about her father’s posthumo memoir, <em>The Extraordary Life of an Ordary Man</em>. </div><div class="SummaryItemByleWrapper-boCfbi cuRXdL summary-em__byle-date-in"><div class="SummaryItemBaseByle-fFbXkY gRtaxp summary-em__byle"><div class="summary-em__byle__ntent"><div data-ttid="BylWrapper" class="BylWrapper-KIudk irTIfE byl"><p class="ByleWrapper-jWHrLH iNSiTG byle byl__byle" data-ttid="ByleWrapper" emProp="thor" emType="><span emProp="name" class="ByleNamWrapper-jbHncj fuDQVo"><span data-ttid="ByleName" class="ByleName-kwmrLn cYaBaU byle__name"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ BylePreamble-iJolpQ iUEiRd bIbWCO gnILss byle__preamble">By </span>Julie Miller</span></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div><div 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class="SummaryItemHedTag-TWblf gxaOcP" data-ttid="SummaryItemHed">Exclive: When <em>The</em> <em>Big Bang Theory’s</em> Kaley Cuo and Johnny Galecki Fell Love </div></div></div></a><div class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ SummaryItemDek-CRfsi iUEiRd ijSOpT jDyfzW summary-em__k">The stars tell all about their relatnship off-mera and on an excerpt om the rich new oral history, <em>The Big Bang Theory: The Defive, Insi Story.</em></div><div class="SummaryItemByleWrapper-boCfbi cuRXdL summary-em__byle-date-in"><div class="SummaryItemBaseByle-fFbXkY gRtaxp summary-em__byle"><div class="summary-em__byle__ntent"><div data-ttid="BylWrapper" class="BylWrapper-KIudk irTIfE byl"><p class="ByleWrapper-jWHrLH iNSiTG byle byl__byle" data-ttid="ByleWrapper" emProp="thor" emType="><span emProp="name" class="ByleNamWrapper-jbHncj fuDQVo"><span data-ttid="ByleName" class="ByleName-kwmrLn cYaBaU byle__name"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ BylePreamble-iJolpQ iUEiRd bIbWCO gnILss byle__preamble">By </span>Jsi Radloff</span></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="SummaryItemWrapper-iwvBff jCBznZ summary-em summary-em--has-le summary-em--ARTICLE summary-em--no-in summary-em--text-align-left summary-em--layout-placement-text-below summary-em--layout-posn-image-left summary-em--layout-proportns-50-50 summary-em--si-by-si-align-center summary-em--si-by-si-image-right-mobile-false summary-em--standard SummaryCollectnGridSummaryItem-WColm ciqncl" role="button" tabx="0"><div class="SummaryItemAssetContaer-gwhFFH VOyg summary-em__asset-ntaer"><a class="SummaryItemImageLk-dshqxb cPpCwE summary-em__image-lk summary-em-trackg__image-lk" href=" aria-hidn="te" tabx="-1" data-ponent-type="recirc-river" data-recirc-id="em-image-7" data-recirc-pattern="summary-em" target="_self"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset SummaryItemRponsiveAsset-hjGIGg bDvSkO summary-em__image"><div data-tt="aspect-rat-ntaer" class="AspectRatContaer-bJHpJz 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