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Neil Patrick Harris (born June 15, 1973) is an American actor, singer, writer, producer, and television host. Primarily known for his comedic television roles and dramatic and musical stage roles, he has received multiple accolades throughout his career, including a Tony Award, five Primetime Emmy Awards, and nominations for a Grammy Award and three Screen Actors Guild Awards. On television, he is known for playing the title character on the ABC series Doogie Howser, M.D. (1989–1993), for which he was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy, as well as Barney Stinson on the CBS series How I Met Your Mother (2005–2014, for which he was nominated for four Emmy Awards), and Count Olaf on the Netflix series A Series of Unfortunate Events (2017–2019). Harris is also known for his role as the title character in Joss Whedon's musical Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog (2008) and a fictional version of himself in the Harold & Kumar film series (2004–2011). His other films include Starship Troopers (1997), Beastly (2011), The Smurfs (2011), The Smurfs 2 (2013), A Million Ways to Die in the West (2014), and Gone Girl (2014). In 2010, Harris won two awards at the 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards, winning for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series for his guest appearance on Glee, and Outstanding Special Class Program for hosting the Tony Awards in 2009; he has won the latter award three additional times for hosting the show in 2011, 2012, and 2013. He also hosted the Primetime Emmy Awards in 2009 and 2013, and hosted the 87th Academy Awards in 2015, thus making him the first openly gay man to host the Academy Awards. In 2014, he starred in the title role in Hedwig and the Angry Inch on Broadway, for which he won the 2014 Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Musical. Harris was named one of Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People in 2010. He is married to David Burtka. In 2010, they had twins via surrogacy.
If I Ran the Zoo opens with the book's protagonist and narrator, Gerald McGrew, arriving at a zoo alone. The young boy stands before a lion cage. In it, a single lion is lying down and looking content. The lion's expression is similar to that of the zookeeper, who stands next to the cage with his hands in his pockets. Gerald comments that it is a pretty good zoo, and that the man who runs it seems proud. However, Gerald begins to speculate about what fascinating imagined creatures he would bring to the zoo if he ran it. Zookeeper is not only one who listening,there is also beautiful girl Ann, this character is not in the book. Gerald lists animals he would like to capture, include a ten-footed lion, an elephant-cat, a Flustard (who eats only mustard and custard), a goat-dog-squirrel hybrid called the Joat, a family of deer with their antlers knotted together, a cave-dweller called the Natch, and finally the world's largest bird, a Fizza-ma-Wizza-ma-Dill. Throughout his narration, Gerald speculates that the public would react in surprise to every new creature he brings back to the McGrew Zoo. However, the story returns at the end to reality: Gerald is still standing before the lion exhibit and the actual zookeeper. The book ends with Gerald commenting that these are the changes he would make if he ran the zoo. Then he realized Ann for the first time, she came closer to him and told him, he is dreamer and she liked his vision, he invited her to walk around the zoo with him.
