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Matthew Bomer's Valentine's Day Advice

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Matt Bomer may play a sexy con man on "White Collar" every single week, but when it comes to wooing the person he loves, Matt has a more traditional view of Valentine's Day.

In fact the sexy, blue eyed actor admits that if you want to do it right, you must listen to your sweetheart. Get to know the person. And, make sure that every detail you've planned out for that special someone is something they'd love to do. The bottom line: don't be a selfish lover. Got it? Not yet? Well, perhaps when Matt says it it will make more sense.

"How to woo someone on Valentine's Day? I think be very considerate. Listen and plan wisely," he advised to MTV News. "Don’t operate too fast. Be respectful. Be present and if you're taking someone out on a date hopefully you'd listened to them enough to know what they like and do something that they would enjoy."

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The Nifty 50 | Matt Bomer, Actor

This month, T celebrates the Nifty 50: America’s up-and-coming talent.

Clothes maketh the con man. Just ask Matt Bomer, the criminally handsome actor who plays Neil Caffrey, the master scam artist turned F.B.I. consultant on USA Network’s breakout dramedy, “White Collar.”

Bomer’s character struts around, unraveling the lies of the rich and famous, in slim-line, single-breasted Devoré suits (in the script they’re vintage threads made by Sinatra’s tailor), club-collar shirts, Dapper Don accessories and a fedora.

“Neil’s expertise is maneuvering through the upper echelons of society,” Bomer says, “and there is a certain uniform for navigating these waters smoothly. So his look is somewhere between the Rat Pack and Marcello Mastroianni, with a bit of Jack Kerouac’s swagger thrown in for good measure.”

In addition to stealing the show in his immaculate retro get-ups, Bomer’s polymath character possesses the kind of sprezzatura that would make even Castiglione proud. “Neil is certainly esoteric,” Bomer says, “from knowing the fibers used in Canadian currency to how to play Pai Gow” — a Chinese domino game — “and using a lot of sleight of hand. He’s an interesting guy.”

Bomer, who recently sold a script he wrote about a young Nashville songwriter to the CW, could be speaking about himself. Now 32, the Los Angeles resident grew up in Spring, Tex. (His dad is the former Dallas Cowboy John Bomer.) After receiving a B.F.A. from Carnegie Mellon University, he moved to New York, where he did obligatory stints in soaps and musical theater, and had supporting roles in movies like “Flightplan” before landing his own TV shows, “Traveler” and then “Chuck.”

“I’ve been knocking at the door for a while,” says Bomer, a picture of unstudied American cool in his nondescript jeans, checked shirt and beat-up Red Wing boots. “When I landed the part on ‘White Collar,’ I had briefly been in ‘Grey Gardens’ on Broadway and did the movie ‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning,’ so I’m not averse to selling out art for commerce.”

Besides, he says, his varied filmography is all grist for the mill, exercises in genre that help him to shape the most colorful hustler on TV: “Playing a role successfully and preparing for a con are startlingly similar. You have to know your mark, do all your homework about the character you’re inhabiting in order to pull of your con. And, let’s face it, in this business, people are conning you all the time.”

“White Collar” is on USA Networks Tuesday nights at 10.

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Matt Bomer on ELLEN

Matt Boner recalls brief time as Brett Ratner's Superman

Matthew Bomer is currently impressing audiences as conman-turned-FBI agent Neal Caffrey in the “White Collar” television series, but there was a time not too long ago when he was primed to bring a far more familiar character to the big screen as the star of what eventually became “Superman Returns.”

Before Bryan Singer took over “Superman Returns,” Brett Ratner had been tagged as the project’s director and cast Bomer as Kal-El. Ratner left the project in 2003, and the role of Superman was re-cast and given to Brandon Routh when Singer was named the new director. So, when Bomer dropped by MTV HQ to discuss “White Collar,” we had to ask him what it was like to be Superman — even for just a little while.

“I actually screen-tested for Superman, and there was a time when Brett Ratner and I were going to work together on it,” Bomer told MTV News. “That particular incarnation of that franchise sort of fell apart, and then it became a whole different beast.”

“I was in full tights,” he laughed when asked how much of the costume he had donned for his screen test. “I was rocking the tights, the speedo, all of it.”

“It was really surreal,” he added. “As a kid, you grow up idolizing superheroes, and to be in that garb was really fun and surreal and humbling. … It was a really great experience, and one that I’m really thankful for. I got to live out a childhood fantasy, if only for the period of the screen test.”

Bomer, who earned extra comics cred for dropping by Splash Page HQ post-interview to talk comics, also shared some of his thoughts about the superhero genre as a whole.

“I think superheroes are really fun roles,” he said. “I think they’re something we’ll always need as a society, because they show us what we could be and that hopefully, no matter how scary and bad things get, there’s always somebody who can help us — or that humanity really wins out in the end.”

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Matt Boner in Men's Health

White Collar’s Matt Bomer lends his famous face to the pages of Men’s Health in the February 2010 issue.

The 32-year-old actor dished about why the character of Neal Caffrey appealed to him, taking fashion cues from his character and what he’s learned growing up.

On why he wanted to play Neal: “His duality appealed to me. You don’t ever want to play a character who’s too polished. Those imperfect, dark sides add texture to a part.”

On taking fashion cues from Neal: “I’ve taken a lot of notes from him. Throw on a tie bar, cuff links and a fedora, and I feel like a different guy.”

On growing up: “For me, a lot of my 20s were about finding out who I wanted to be. When you reach your 30s, you develop a much stronger sense of who you are, an that simplifies everything - from what I wear to who I spend my time with.”

For more from Matt, pick up Men’s Health, on newsstands now!

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Matt Bomer's Big Break

Q: What was your big break?
A: Guiding Light, nine years ago. I played a trust-fund baby who became a male prostitute, killed three people, kidnapped a girl, then killed himself in front of her father and her boyfriend. You know, just your average slice-of-life piece.

Q: Your father played for the Dallas Cowboys. Ever think you'd be a football player?
A: I grew up in Texas, and there's really no other social option on a Friday night. I played through high school and enjoyed it. I was okay—not great. But my senior year I ended up getting cast in A Streetcar Named Desire and left the team for the part. My parents were actually really cool about that decision.

Q: Your character, Neal Caffrey, is a very dapper dresser. Are you?
A: Not at all. I have, like, three suits to my name. But one thing I've learned is that when you dress up in real life, people treat you differently. So I've definitely borrowed a lot of the show's wardrobe.

Q: It looks like they've got you in head-to-toe Thom Browne.
A: Actually, I don't wear a stitch of Thom Browne on the show, but it is all cut and tailored that way. The casting designer and I came up with a look for Neal that's very Rat Pack, so anything Sy Devore-influenced—skinny ties, very fitted suits. I've worn some amazing vintage sharkskin.

Q: After performing in promising shows like Traveller and Tru Calling that failed to take off, did you have high hopes for White Collar?
A: It's funny—you just never know what's gonna hit. We started shooting the pilot for White Collar in late 2008, before Madoff. Then the whole scandal broke. I was like, Wow, this is really out there in the zeitgeist right now.

Q: How true were the rumors that you were going to get the lead in Superman Returns back in 2003?
A: I went through all the screen tests, and it was pretty much understood that [director] Brett Ratner and I would be doing it. It all kind of fell apart.

Q: That must have been devastating.
A: The whole experience was so fast and sudden—it was impossible for me to take in while it was happening. But just being attached to Superman actually gave a great boost to my career.

Q: Does it bother you that so much of what's been written about you is speculation that you're gay?
A: I don't care about that at all. I'm completely happy and fulfilled in my personal life.

Q: But you don't want to talk about it.
A: I have a network and a show riding on my shoulders. I would say a big difference between my character and me is that I can be too trusting. And I've realized in this business, that's not necessarily the smartest thing to be. I definitely have a thing or two to learn from the con artists.


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White Collar promos for episodes 1x10 & 1x11

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Matt Bomer filming "White Collar"!

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Matt Bomer filming "White Collar"

Matthew boner at a white collar press conference