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[quote author=pogo_gamer link=msg=334920 date=1168516199]
This is the story of a former TV child star who did not get arrested for slapping a fan or for beating up a transvestite hooker in Arizona, did not crash his expensive car into a house in Encino or go into rehab to kick a drug habit.

``Excuse me,'' the waitress asks, ``but are you Jonathan?''

Danny Pintauro smiles up from the corner table at Harvey's in the Castro and answers, ``Well, yeah, among other people.''

It's been eight years since ``Who's the Boss?'' ended its eight-year run on ABC, but Pintauro gets the Jonathan question all the time. Although he's still recognized as the Goody Two-shoes son of Judith Light's Angela Bower, the 24-year-old actor, in town to star in ``The Velocity of Gary (Not His Real Name)'' at New Conservatory Theatre, is nothing like the character he played on TV. And unlike so many ex-child stars, Pintauro did not self-destruct when he stopped being famous.

Still a self-described ``skinny kid,'' Pintauro speaks in un-Jonathan-like declarative sentences, even when conceding that he has yet to figure out what he wants to do with his life.

``What I'm having is this conflict in my life right now, that in New York, I see my directing friends and I see acting friends and they've all got this level of passion about either or both of those directions that I've never really found myself having,'' he says. ``And maybe that's what's making me go, `Well, maybe that's not what I want to do.'

``I have a feeling,'' he adds, ``that when I find whatever it is I'm supposed to do, I'll have that passion. I don't yet, and that's OK.''

Pintauro has spent most of his life in show business, beginning at 2 as a child model. He played a rich kid for five years on ``As the World Turns'' before landing the role of Jonathan Bower. His film work includes the 1983 Stephen King film ``Cujo'' and Scholastic's ``The Benniker Gang'' with Andrew McCarthy.

When ``the show,'' as Pintauro invariably calls it, went off the air, he auditioned for a few things but when nothing materialized, he went to Stanford and almost disappeared from the public eye while he earned a degree in drama (with a focus on directing).

The ``almost'' was provided by the National Enquirer, which was planning to out Pintauro in 1997. Pintauro's response was to offer himself up -- for the interview, a tables-turning maneuver that resulted in a very positive article about a young actor who didn't think being gay was anything to hide or to apologize for.

Pintauro is many things, but the one thing he has never been is a ``celebrity basket case,'' thanks in large part to his parents' insistence that he have a normal childhood. Nonetheless, he knows he missed an important part of growing up.

``From the time I was 2, I was doing one thing after another,'' he says. ``And if there was space in between projects, it was very small. It wasn't until I could get out of Stanford that I could sit down and think about my life, to do the things that most kids do, which is to ask who am I, what do I want to be when I grow up. I never got to do Dan Pintauro.''

Right now, doing Dan Pintauro means reviving a character he first played off-Broadway last year to favorable reviews and sold- out houses. ``The Velocity of Gary (Not His Real Name)'' was also made into a film last year with Vincent D'Onofrio and Salma Hayek, but the film version, even if it had been watchable, is nothing like James Still's original play, in which a young hustler who calls himself Gary offers a 90-minute stream-of-consciousness tour of his searching mind.

``Gary'' ran for a month in New York last year before Pintauro had to go to Washington, D.C., to play a 16-year-old kid in Pulitzer Prize-winner Paula Vogel's searing drama about spousal abuse, ``Hot 'n' Throbbing.'' From there, he went to North Carolina to play Bosie in Moises Kaufman's ``Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde.'' He thought he'd left Gary behind him for good.

``I was OK at leaving it at that, but Mark wanted to do it again, and I realized I wanted to do it, too,'' Pintauro says. ``There were lots of things (in the character) I still wanted to explore.''

Pintauro and playwright Mark Cannistraro spent five weeks rehearsing the play in New York before arriving in San Francisco for the New Conservatory opening this week. One thing Pintauro didn't have to do for ``Who's the Boss?'' is round up props: On Sunday, he snags some fake flowers and a bulldog with a spike collar and a bobbing head that will find their way onto the set, to represent things Gary thinks and talks about.

When the play's run is finished, Pintauro will go back to New York to teach acting in a private high school. He's not sure, though, how much longer he'll stay in New York. Washington has an appeal, since his boyfriend lives there. For now, though, he still auditions for theater and films, but don't expect to see him pop up in another sitcom soon.

``Absolutely not,'' he says. ``And the reason is the challenges. There is absolutely no way for a sitcom to be a challenge to me. It would take a lot. I've made a lot of money (in the sitcom) and I've had the celebrity, so why do it?''

If being an out gay actor limits Pintauro's chances for certain roles, he all but shrugs at the problem.

``Maybe I'm a unique case because if I were straight, I still couldn't play the handsome Romeo type. I'm not built for it,'' he says. ``I'm a skinny kid, and I don't look 24. I've already got that problem outside of being gay. I'm auditioning for all kinds of things, but mostly teenagers and guys in their early, early 20s. In New York, I much prefer playing older because as characters get older, they get more interesting.''

So do former child stars.
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