Men's Journal
by David DiBenedetto
High Style:
Television's latest
superhero takes a new route with a classic
Eric
Close knows the benefits of looking good. The 32-year-old actor
worked out six days a week for six weeks with a professional
trainer to get the part of Michael Wiseman, a bioengineered
secret agent in the employ of the U.S. government, in
CBS's new series Now and
Again. "In the show, I'm called the 'perfect human
body.' That's difficult to live up to," says Close, who is
most likely to be found -- when he isn't on the set or at the gym
-- testing his strength on climbing walls around his new hometown
of New York City, indulging a passion that he first discovered at
summer camp in California as a 13-year- old and later honed on
the rocks of Joshua Tree National Monument while enrolled at the
University of Southern California.
Eric Close takes a new route with an old faithful.
Here, Close does some honing of a different nature, refining a fashion classic by shedding the tuxedo's conventional bow tie in favor of a necktie. This style, guaranteed to make you feel less like a waiter when you're dressed in formal wear, has been popping up recently at Hollywood events. And who knows? Given the early success of Now and Again, it's a look you just may see Close wearing next September - at the Emmys.
December 1999