Zero Son Gain

One of "Two and a Half Men," Jon Cryer, doesn't know how his television son will develop. In a recent interview he suggested it all depended on how the producer's son — presumably the inspiration for the Jake character — grows and the challenges he offers his father.



Nor, like fathers everywhere, does he fully understand what planet his son comes from. As he admits, "Oh I will avoid those same pitfalls ... but you can't and they sneak up and bite you, no matter what. My son just gave me my first ... I was telling him ""You can't play the video games, you can't have the ice cream until you do the chores"" and he said, ""Whatever."" I went ""Oh my God!"" that was my first 'whatever' at 7. I felt like I should have written it down like on the [growth] chart — my first friggin 'whatever' of a long list of 'whatevers.'"

** For an actor father it is art not imitating but being life. **