Noah Wyle once publicly lamented the fact that most of his fans were teenaged girls. "I'm sweet, wholesome, dependable," he drily declared, "and apparently not like any guy in their school."

His comments provoked an angry response. "This one girl wrote me saying, 'I'm fifteen years old, how dare you reduce me to a non-thinking blah blah blah,'" he recalled with a smile. "'P.S.: Can I have your autograph?'"

["George gets racy pictures," his mother explained. "Noah gets 'Here's me and my hamster.'"]