European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 11, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pierce shows his proper Side on by James Endrst Hartford courant avid Hyde Pierce orders an English Muf Fin for breakfast in Hollywood. How in character How White bread one would have to say. If that is one assumed Pierce was anything like Niles Crane the fellow snob psychiatrist and brother he plays to Kelsey or Marner s or. Frasier Crane on Abc s hit sitcom frasier 8 45 . Get tuesday on an to. But that would be jumping to freudian conclusions would t it after All sometimes breakfast is just breakfast and actors Are just Well acting. Granted there s some predictable subliminal con fusion at first. Dressed casually in White Slacks and a comfortable looking red shirt on this recent morning the 35-year-old Pierce does t dress much like his Prim to the brim to counterpart. And yet. There s that Crisp diction the face that reflects a mind Ever in motion a humor that s deliciously droll. The discovered that i like to play characters that appear to be one thing and Are actually another says Pierce whose performance like or Marner a won him an emmy nomination this year. I Don t know maybe that describes any interesting character so maybe that s a dumb thing to say he says. I know that s True for Niles. He s so fastidious and so upper class uptight All those things on the outside. He seems to be a person who sort of has everything and is very in control and i m sure that s How he comes off to his patients. But on the inside he really is pretty clueless and kind of  Pierce resists comparisons Between Niles and Theodore Van Horn the suicidal us. Congressman he played on Norman Lear s hilarious but Short lived Abc series the Powers that be i loved that show says Pierce. I jul stalked to Norman Lear a couple Days ago. He and i both found that More people now than Ever come up to us and say gosh we loved that show. Sorry it s gone " it bothered Pierce so much so that he thought about turning his Back on television altogether. I was very disappointed he says. And people game to me with offers for other shows and i just thought Well no thanks some of those offers were from Abc. And Hon Estly says Pierce i Felt a Little burned by Abc. I wished that the network had been More behind that show. But then they came with this  4 the Opportunity to play Niles whom Pierce has described As Well dressed and badly married came in part out of his much noted physical resemblance to co Star Grammer something he d been hear Pigfor years. I used to get it in new York on stage says Pierce a Yale graduate who started his career on Broadway in a play about crazy psychiatrists called beyond therapy before getting his big break in the Heidi chronicles. I would come out of the theater and hear people saying of that Guy from cheers is really Good " one is tempted to say Fate cast Pierce in the role but the actor in t interested in assigning any cosmic relevance to career choices. I Don t believe there is a supreme being that cares who gets cast on a to show and who does t. That would really upset me if that were True quips Pierce who got into television to increase his exposure and Abc David Hyde Pierce stars in frasier on tuesdays. Improve his movie roles. He has had a string of Strong but Small parts in such films As Little Man Tate the Fisher King sleepless in Seattle and most recently Wolf clearly though there s something special about the Pierce Grammer combination that goes beyond the emmy nominations. On and offscreen both men say they be  Kelsey is amazingly generous and supportive and creative says Pierce while Grammer says Pierce is like the brother i never  but Pierce is not one to Psychoanal be. Not himself anyway. He says he has never Felt the need for therapy him self and chuckles at the suggestion that he might find it interesting. I can t imagine going just to see what therapy is like he says. It sounds like going to the dentist just to see what having your Teeth pulled is  that works for Niles too As far As Pierce can Tell. I imagine Niles does t speak to anyone he Theo Rizes. I think he would be just petrified confronting All the things going on inside him. For. Example his relationship wih frasier s psychic housekeeper Home care provider Daphne and his relationship with his wife Maris. Everyone in the world can see that he is married to the strangest most scary woman alive and everyone else in the world can see that he s madly in love with Daphne. He did t think any. One can  " l Pierce wonders about the future of frasier and its move on stateside to from the comfy upscale Couch on thursday night following Seinfeld to the rough and Tumble tuesday nights at 9 opposite the Low rent Roseanne on Abc. The latest Nielsen ratings show Roseanne fourth Seinfeld fifth and frasier seventh. I was amazed at first he confesses. I thought we would have another year before they moved us around. And i thought Well if you want to take a chunk out of a powerful show Why not move Sein Feldten he says he came to terms with it All. 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