A Divine Entry Into Paradise

Justin Kirk, who plays brokenhearted AIDS sufferer Prior Walter on HBO's Angels in America, has the kind of impossible good looks that bad-TV actors are made of. And while he has done some bad TV--he played Barto Zane for two years on the WB's forgettable Jack & Jill--in reality, Kirk, 34, is an accomplished stage actor. He did his first play at 7 (Brecht, no less) and has since racked up accolades that include an Obie for playing the blind man in Terrence McNally's Love! Valour! Compassion!--"the other gay play of the '90s," says Kirk, who reprised the role in the...

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