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| Did You
Know - Part I |
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| Read some interesting
facts about Michael gathered from various
interviews and articles... |
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| Michael Easton is best
known to daytime audiences as Tanner
Scofield on Days of Our Lives,
a role he played from 1989-1992. |
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| Easton spent several years
working in New York theater and an array
of odd jobs including waiter, bartender,
and attack dog agitator. |
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| Easton's talent and rugged
good looks won him a legion of fans and
attention from such publications as People
Magazine's "Most Beautiful
People" issue in 1992. |
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| A martial arts enthusiast
and gymnast, Easton performed many of his
own, less life-threatening, stunts on "Two"
and had also co-written several episodes.
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| Easton served as
writer/director/producer/editor on the
1995 Sundance Film Festival motion
picture Daedalus is Dead. |
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| He is most recognized for
his appearances on Ally McBeal
where he played Glenn, the
generously endowed art-class model who
posed for Ally and then bedded her. |
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| He discusses his
experiences of being a homeless wino in
his acclaimed book of poetry Eighteen
Straight Whiskeys a 96-page
collection of hard-edged emotional
musings on drinking and drugs, which
details his experience with homelessness,
his mom's death and alcohol-induced hazes. |
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| Easton credits the Los
Angeles Mission, a homeless shelter
on the city's skid row, with putting him
on the straight and narrow, and his late
mom, Joan, with keeping him
there. She died in 1994, after a two-year
bout with cancer, during which Easton
quit acting and moved back to the family
home in New York State to help care for
her.
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| His father, Stewart,
is an engineer; his younger brother, Keith,
is a Navy pilot. |
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| In preparing for the gig
on Port Charles, the actor
reread his collection of Anne Rice
novels. " But Easton also got a
little first-hand experience when he
accidentally walked into Coven 13,
a Gothic dance party sporadically held at
a music hall near his home in Los
Angeles. |
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| Easton's tattoos are real. |
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| Easton was 5 when his
parents moved back to their native
Ireland. |
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