This is a great description of Simon Bakers acting talent from 20 August 2010. Print just the bit about Simon.
The best new fall shows come down to casting
Here are Entertainment Weekly’s candidates for "Best New Show of the Season” in its online poll: "90210”
"The Mentalist”
"Life on Mars”
"Fringe”
"My Own Worst Enemy”
That leaves two unqualified winners on their list the way I see it — "Life on Mars” and "The Mentalist.”
And both, I submit to you, are triumphs of the casting director’s art.
"The Mentalist,” at long last, is the perfect role for Simon Baker after many years of trying to find one in movies and TV shows. He’s the kind of handsome, blond hunk that almost anyone would assume would flutter female hearts and be big star material, and yet there’s always been something just a wee bit off about him that keeps him from becoming the common council president of George Clooneyville. To his credit, he can do creepy exceedingly well and has often had enough edge and performing feistiness to w
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angel | Date:
05-Mar-11 
