John Krasinsky plays the same nice guy with an ironic smile that he plays in The Office.

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France can smile, all the same.

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At my request, Mark incorporated the college photo in his UC Santa Barbara talk, telling the students that although his body had aged, he still had the same passion, optimism and propensity to smile that allowed young Mark Templeton to ascend to the helm of one of the most successful software companies on the planet.

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You have to draw a smile from the listener, and at the same time deliver a very serious message.

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"Like Charlie Chaplain, I'm representing a black comedy so it makes you smile and it gives you grief at the same time, " Diab said of his work.

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And if he reveals a Reaganesque smile and shrug that dismiss the attacks as the same old nasty Washington politics, that won't hurt either.

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"Since my diagnosis, I have met a lot of other children going through the same thing and I have decided I want to make as many children as possible smile and stay as positive as me, " he said.

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