Faces & Places: �Man of the Hour�
SEAN PATRICK FLANERY He Lost The Girl Who Got Him Into Acting, But Gained A TV Show
AGE: 34
HOMETOWN: Houston, where his father, Paul, sells medical supplies, and his mother, Genie, is a real-estate agent.
CURRENT RESIDENCE: Splits his time between Los Angeles and Las Vegas, where he�s filming the new UPN series The Strip in which he plays a cop who takes on shady side jobs. Flanery calls it �48 Hours meets Lethal Weapon.�
THE NEED FOR SPEED: �As a kid, I wanted to be a rocket when I grew up. When I learned you couldn�t do that, I wanted to be a speed racer. A few years ago, I did some celeb car races, and now I�m addicted. It�s not an adrenaline rush like bungee jumping. With racing, you�re at your own mercy.�
RESUME: Starred in TV�s The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles from 1992 to 1993 as the famous budding archaeologist (�I worked with George Lucas and traveled to 33 different countries. It was a perfect job.�) and as the title character, a sweet-tempered misfit, in the 1995 drama Powder.
HIS LATEST MOVIE: Flanery plays an attorney who defends his best friend when a night on the town goes awry, in this month�s Body Shots. It�s In The Company of Men � and women. It�s a fly-on-the-wall perspective on sex and relationships.�
ON LOVE: �I�ve read a lot about love. It seems to be an entrancing experience. One day I�d like to fall in a big pool of it.�
ON DISCOVERING ACTING: �I saw the most gorgeous specimen of femininity leaving the drama department at the University of St. Thomas in Houston. So I ditched an English class and signed up. I fell in love with acting and never spoke to her.�
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