Ironically enough, he also played Bill Gates in that TBS movie a few years ago. Quite well, I might add. He's not a geek anymore though. He's like a body builder now.
Yeah I think at one point years ago he even had some steroid use or something along those lines. Hall also did a good job in the HBO movie about Roger Meris called 61.
geek PRONUNCIATION: AUDIO gk KEY NOUN: Slang 1a. A person regarded as foolish, inept, or clumsy. b. A person who is single-minded or accomplished in scientific or technical pursuits but is felt to be socially inept. 2. A carnival performer whose show consists of bizarre acts, such as biting the head off a live chicken. ETYMOLOGY: Perhaps alteration of dialectal geck, fool, from Low German gek, from Middle Low German. OTHER FORMS: geeky —ADJECTIVE OUR LIVING LANGUAGE: Our word geek is now chiefly associated with student and computer slang; one probably thinks first of a computer geek. In origin, however, it is one of the words American English borrowed from the vocabulary of the circus, which was a much more significant source of entertainment in the United States in the 19th and early 20th century than it is now. Large numbers of traveling circuses left a cultural legacy in various and sometimes unexpected ways. For example, Superman and other comic book superheroes owe much of their look to circus acrobats, who were similarly costumed in capes and tights. The circus sideshow is the source of the word geek, “a performer who engaged in bizarre acts, such as biting the head off a live chicken.” We also owe the word ballyhoo to the circus; its ultimate origin is unknown, but in the late 1800s it referred to a flamboyant free musical performance conducted outside a circus with the goal of luring customers to buy tickets to the inside shows. Other words and expressions with circus origins include bandwagon (coined by P.T. Barnum in 1855) and Siamese twin.
