Interview with Justin Kirk (Prior Walter) of Angels in America

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HBO'S production of "Angels in America" was murder on Justin Kirk's hair. As Prior Walter, an AIDS-stricken gay blueblood, he plumbs the full range of styling gels and irons: matinee-idol pompadour when the character is healthy, lank and straight when he is sick, tortured Joan Crawford pin curls for a movingly swishy drag-queen fantasy sequence.

"It's all about the hair," Mr. Kirk said on a recent morning, dressed in dark Levi's and a gray shirt and crouching in front of a white shag rug in his two-story bachelor pad in the Beachwood Canyon section of Los Angeles. The dishwater blond locks, which he described as naturally "Michael Richards crazy," were smooth and Hugh Grant floppy. "I can go both ways," he said with a grin.

Mr. Kirk was being coy. He knows his brazenly homoerotic performance in "Angels" is likely to generate a round of is-he-or-isn't-he questions about his sexuality, and he seemed to enjoy adding to the ambiguity with double entendres like that one. For the record, however, Mr. Kirk is avowedly straight.

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Interview with Justin Kirk

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1. God, is he good looking or what?

I usually don't fawn over young guys like that but I'll make an exception in his case.

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2. Hell yeah