Playboy Interview: Hugh Laurie

Hugh LaurieA candid conversation with the actor behind TV's grouchiest character about Brits versus Yanks, his conflicted view of success and why we love an misanthropeNot often does someone become a star by play­ing an unlikable curmudgeon week after miser­able week. But that's what happened to Hugh Laurie with House, the phenomenally popular medical drama on which he has turned the limping, pill-popping misanthrope Dr. Gregory House into one of the most memorable and oddly appealing characters...