5. Hugh Laurie's starting to lose interest.
Time was, we barely heard a peep out of Laurie, who we're guessing would use his hiatuses to get some well-deserved R&R (he's notorious for pulling 60-hour-plus weeks). Though he hasn't come out and said, "I'm getting kind of tired of this," Laurie's got a big, non-House-filled year coming up, including the release of his blues album Let Them Talk and his starring role in the much buzzed-about film The Oranges, which made its debut at the Toronto International Film Festival a few weeks ago.
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