I knew it! I've been a fan of Debra Winger and her husband Arliss Howard for a long time, and had a hunch the guy playing Ruth Corman's boyfriend Larry in episode 3 might be Howard. There was something familiar about his smile. Haven't seen Howard in anything for a few years, and he does look a bit different. Sure enough though, a couple of sites confirmed it's an uncredited appearance. I don't read msn normally but it's one of the few sites this bit of trivia came up.
"This argument is all spawned by Josh’s confusion and surprise at finding a strange man named Larry (an uncredited Arliss Howard, AKA Mr. Debra Winger) in his mother’s house, only to learn that this is his mother’s boyfriend, and they've been together for a year."
If the first two episodes of Mr. Corman raised the concerning question of why exactly this story is a TV series as opposed to a movie, then “Happy Birthday” only raises that question a bit louder.
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