Category Archives: Reader Questions
Karlene Stephens, Bronx, N.Y. The 31-year-old Los Angeles native is enjoying a stint as a TV sleuth on the new NBC drama Deception, which stars Good as a detective fleshing out the mystery of her best friend’s death — and … Continue reading
Arline Flora, Reno The opinionated journalist, 54, hasn’t been on TV much lately, at least regularly —a year ago, the former ESPN Sports Center anchor and host of MSBNC’s Countdown With Keith Olbermann was canned from his gig as chief … Continue reading
Eve Hauser, Sun City West,Ariz. You bet! The new season of the Lifetime show begins next Sunday. Hewitt stars as Riley Parks, a mother who, after being put in financial straits when her husband leaves, gets a job at a … Continue reading
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Tagged Cybill Shepherd, Jennifer Love Hewitt, The Client List
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Dee Snider says All-Star Celebrity Apprentice (premiering Sunday) is “more Survivor than Jersey Shore.” So why two rounds in Donald Trump’s boardroom for the Twisted Sister singer? “People have a snapshot in their brain of every celebrity. It’s what they … Continue reading
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Tagged All-Star Celebrity Apprentice, Dee Snider, Keri Russell, The Americans
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Ken Sayre, Bloomville, Ohio Though you might not know it from her American roles in movies such as Mallrats and The Rock — or the Scottish accent she sports while sipping whisky in TV ads — Claire Forlani, 40, actually … Continue reading
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Tagged Claire Forlani, Dougray Scott
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Sharon Sathern, Grayslake, Ill. His show is still airing in syndication, although that’s just one project on his busy schedule. Probst, 51, who is in his 26th season hosting the CBS reality show Survivor, added author to his résumé with … Continue reading
Dottie Palmquist, Sun City, Ariz. Harry’s Law is definitely canceled, but Body of Proof just came back this past week for its third season. Nicholas Bishop’s character, Peter Dunlop, was killed off, but Delany returns as medical examiner Megan Hunt. … Continue reading
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Tagged Body of Proof, Dana Delany, Elyes Gabel, Harry's Law, mark valley
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Robert Fields, Northridge, Calif. Good eye! Cote de Pablo’s Ziva David is Jewish on the popular CBS drama. A former liaison officer with the Mossad, Israel’s national intelligence agency, Ziva now works as a special agent with Gibbs (Mark Harmon) … Continue reading
George Mills, Washington Court House, Ohio Nope, although you are not the only person who thinks the TV star looks like Tears for Fears singer Roland Orzabal— especially when Orzabal and Cryer both had some big hair in the 1980s. … Continue reading
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Tagged Jon Cryer, Roland Orzabal, Tears for Fears, Two and a Half Men
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Dave Walker, North Dartmouth, Mass. That’s New Zealand singer/songwriter Gin Wigmore, 26, who sings her hit song Man Like That. She appears with James Bond himself, Skyfall’s Daniel Craig, in the 007-inspired Heineken ad. (While you’d expect somebody named “Gin” … Continue reading
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Tagged Daniel Craig, Gin Wigmore
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Rick Johnston, Corinth, Miss. The Queens, N.Y., native, who plays Dr. Joan Watson to Jonny Lee Miller’s Sherlock Holmes on the CBS drama, has never been married, although the former big-screen Charlie’s Angel was engaged at one time to playwright … Continue reading
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Tagged Jonny Lee Miller, Lucy Liu
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Frank Rael, Albuquerque Damon fans shouldn’t take it too seriously — the actor’s feud with the ABC late-night host and comedian is a running joke. A while back, Kimmel started to say, “My apologies to Matt Damon. We ran out … Continue reading
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Tagged Jimmy Kimmel, Matt Damon, Sarah Silverman
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Audrey Doherty, Lake Orion, Mich. The opening theme of the TNT police drama is a snippet of the instrumental version of Canção Do Mar, a tune by Portuguese singer/songwriter and world-music artist Dulce Pontes. (The song also appeared on the … Continue reading
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Tagged Benjamin McKenzie, Michael Cudlitz, Regina King, Southland
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Margo Konopacke, Travelers Rest, S.C. Actually, O’Dell has been hitched for a while. The Entertainment Tonight co-anchor — who is from your neck of the woods, Margo, as a native of Sumter, S.C. — married her second husband, Conviva Networks … Continue reading
Arianna Chan, Fremont, Calif. The J.J. Abrams-helmed procedural about inmates from the infamous prison showing up in modern day found itself on death row all too quickly: Alcatraz was canceled after its first season of 13 episodes. All of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Alcatraz, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Dennis Quaid, J.J. Abrams, Jorge Garcia, Michael Chiklis, Sam Neill, Sarah Jones, Sylvester Stallone
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Nathaniel Summers, Plainfield, N.J. Sparkle, in which Houston played the mother of an aspiring Detroit singer in the 1960s, was released in August after the pop singer’s unexpected death last February at age 48, three months after filming ended on … Continue reading
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Tagged Whitney Houston
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Herb Stark, Massapequa, N.Y. The Australian actress, 44, is still around, although not much on the small screen, where she found most of her success. Griffiths, who had her first role co-starring with fellow Aussie Toni Collette in the 1994 … Continue reading
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Tagged Brothers & Sisters, Rachel Griffiths, Six Feet Under, Tom Hanks
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No; the spy series starring Ashley Judd as an ex-CIA agent was canned last May. A silver lining: Judd, 44, was nominated for an Emmy (Julianne Moore ended up winning in Game Change). Politics are more of an interest lately … Continue reading
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Tagged Aaron Eckhart, Ashley Judd, Dario Franchitti, Julianne Moore
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Neil Blumenfield, Brooklyn, N.Y. A film of the Broadway hit, tracing the origins of the ’60s pop group Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, was to begin production in New York this month with Jon Favreau (Iron Man) in the … Continue reading
Antony Starr, 37, who happens to be New Zealand’s Sexiest Man Alive, plays the ex-con sheriff of a Pennsylvania town on Cinemax’s Banshee. It’s the newcomer’s first action role. “I do most of my stunts, whether I want to or … Continue reading
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Tagged Antony Starr, Arrow, Banshee, Bryce Dallas Howard, Seth Gabel
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