While he bears some resemblance to another screen actor named Brad [Pitt], blond Midwesterner Brad Rowe made an auspicious debut as Gabriel, a hunky waiter-musician who is asked to model for a gay photographer, in Tommy O'Haver's lightweight romance "Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss" (1998). The son of a conservative father and "artsy-liberal" mother, the actor had a few trepidations about undertaking a role with homoerotic overtones but the resulting praise has only boosted his fledgling career. The iconoclastic Rowe spent his junior year of college in Seville, Spain and stayed on for another
