Nicholas Fonseca
Nicholas Fonseca watches ''Days of Our Lives'' religiously and thinks washing dishes by hand is the cheapest form of therapy on earth.
In terms of on-screen mutilation, Paul McCrane is a cut above. In ER's Sept. 26 shocker, his crusty Dr. Romano (below) lost an arm -- and probably his surgical career -- to a helicopter blade. But it wasn't the actor's first slice of life. ''My screen debut was in a wheelchair and a body cast in Rocky II, asking Rocky to sign my head,'' sighs McCrane, 41. He's also been split in half by a car (1987's RoboCop, [1]), had his back broken (1988's The Blob), and regrown his own severed head (as mutant Leonard Betts in a 1997 X-Files episode, [2]). ''Injury seems to be a theme,'' he says. ''Maybe I'm paying for something I've done in a previous life.''
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