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By Nicholas Fonseca
Nicholas Fonseca
Nicholas Fonseca watches ''Days of Our Lives'' religiously and thinks washing dishes by hand is the cheapest form of therapy on earth.

AGE 20 WHERE YOU'VE SEEN HIM As Steve, Dell computer's smarmy teen pitchman. EDDIE HASKELL, ANYONE? The Chattanooga, Tenn., native -- who's the son of a preacher man -- says Steve is ''the kid next door that you either love to bring to your house or try to avoid at all costs.'' YOUNG GUN Answering a casting call that asked for 12- to 17-year-olds, Curtis showed up at his audition acting like ''the more cheesy, in-your-face, obnoxious surfer version of me at age 16.'' MATH WHIZ Dell's consumer revenue grew 46 percent in last year's fourth quarter -- right when Steve began popping up on TV spots. FREEBIES? No free Dell computer yet: ''I used my roommate's computer all year, which is actually a Dell. So, I guess that works.'' NEXT His third year at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and continued studies at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute. Possibly a fifth Dell spot.


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Posted Aug 24, 2001 | Published in issue #610-611 Aug 24, 2001 | Order Article Reprints