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WRITER, ACTOR & FILMAKER

THOM FILICIA,
JESSE ARCHER
& CASPER ANDREAS

An Emmy in 2004 was just the first stop for design guru Thom Filicia (left), host and creative force behind the Style network's Dress My Nest, which recently began its third season, with a fourth in the works. This year's been a busy one for Filicia. He published his first design book, Thom Filicia Style (Simon and Schuster), he was named spokesman for Amana appliances, and he continued his work with W hotels as well as his philanthropic efforts with St. Vincent's Hospital and the Point Foundation.

Jesse Archer (center) is a persuasive guy. He's the reason A Four Letter Word, an award-winning skintastic romantic comedy film he cowrote and stars in, was made. Director Casper Andreas (below, right), with whom Archer appeared in Slutty Summer, just couldn't say no when Archer wanted to reprise the role of gay cliché Luke. A columnist for this magazine, Archer is also the author of a scandalous travel memoir, You Can Run.

If critics are saying that independent film is dead, Andreas isn't listening. He directed, produced, and cowrote A Four Letter Word, and its theatrical launch in Manhattan garnered the year's highest per-screen average for any gay-themed film, a notable achievement for an independent feature. Andreas's new film, Between Love & Goodbye, is screening at festivals and will be released theatrically early in 2009, and he's working on two more features, Big Gay Musical and Going Down in La-La Land. Photographed by roger erickson at indochine in new york city

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