Issue Date: September 9, 2001
Has Lauren Hutton recovered from her motorcycle accident last October? Has she worked since then?
Norma Lamb, Muncie, Ind.
No on both accounts. Doctors say she's three months from full recovery, but considering the severity of the accident, she's in pretty good shape. The former supermodel, 57, was going about 100 mph outside of Las Vegas when she lost control of her bike; fellow riders Jeremy Irons and Dennis Hopper thought she was dead. Her shattered right leg and arm, held together with metal rods, are healed, as are her broken ribs, fractured sternum and punctured lungs. She no longer needs a cane, and her forehead lacerations are gone. In fact, she plans to hop on her new BMW F650 Wednesday for another ride with her biking buddies.
I enjoy Adrian Pasdar on "Mysterious Ways". Did he act much before?
Lola Peake, Greensburg, Ind.
You may remember Pasdar, 36, from "Top Gun" and "Carlito's Way", among other film and TV roles. But his regular work on the Pax drama, which begins its second season Tuesday at 9 p.m. ET, certainly raised his profile. Now he's balancing work and his new family. He met Dixie Chicks lead singer Natalie Maines when both were attendants at bandmate Emily Robison's 1999 wedding. They wed a year later in Vegas and welcomed their first baby, Jackson Slade, in March. Pasdar is filming in Vancouver, Canada, and Maines is busy with her music, but the former Pennsylvanian and his Texas belle plan to have more kids. While awaiting the baby's arrival, Pasdar said, "This is merely the first of 10."
I recently saw the Grammy Award-winning Irish rock band U2 in Boston, and they were awesome. Please tell me about lead singer Bono and his interests outside of the band.
M.L. Altemese, Attleboro, Mass.
His main non-musical pursuit of late is Third World debt relief. Born Paul David Hewson in Dublin, Bono, 41, has joined forces with unlikely allies such as Sen. Jesse Helms and the pope (who tried on Bono's sunglasses when they met) for Jubilee 2000, the lobbying campaign to get Third World debt forgiven. "We have just got to stop asking starving people to give back the money our countries lent them ... plus interest. We have a once-in-a-millennium chance to change the world," he says. The outspoken musician and the group have made their voices heard: Of the $90 billion owed to the richest nations, the International Monetary Fund and World Bank have forgiven $34 billion. As for U2, they're hot on their "Elevation Tour 2001."
California Sen. Dianne Feinstein is often called feisty, but I've always thought of her as quite a lady. How much longer do you think she'll remain in the Senate?
Hazel Thompkins, Monterey County, Calif.
Re-elected to a second term just last year, Feinstein isn't going anywhere before 2006. Her name sometimes surfaces as presidential or VP material for the Democrats, but at 68 she may be too long in the tooth for that. I interviewed Feinstein several times when she was mayor of San Francisco and found her smart, direct and -- as you say, Hazel -- a real lady. Then, as now, she was tirelessly determined and results-oriented.
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Victor Garber is packing to leave his beloved New York, but that's about the only negative life is handing him right now. He's been part of a summer hit, "Legally Blonde"; he's up for two Emmys next week, including one for a guest role on "Frasier"; and he will play an undercover government agent in the new ABC drama "Alias", which premieres Sept. 30. "I feel embraced by L.A.," says the Canadian-born actor. But it wasn't always so. "Every pilot season, I would read things," Garber says, "and I sort of resisted doing a series. But I read the first scene [of Alias' pilot] and I thought: 'This is good. This is really good.' " Garber, 52, praises his "Legally Blonde" co-star Reese Witherspoon as well as "Alias" star Jennifer Garner, who plays his daughter. And he says he's "devoted" to "Alias"' creator-executive producer J.J. Abrams, who also created the WB's "Felicity". Garber says Abrams called him to discuss some of Garber's personal pursuits, to incorporate them into Alias storylines. "I told him: 'I don't DO anything. I go to lunch, and I talk on the phone.' " And he was worried about fitting into L.A.?
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BIRTHDAYS
September 9: Goran Visnjic 29; Adam Sandler 35
September 10: Ryan Phillippe 26; Colin Firth 41
September 11: Maria Bartiromo 34
September 12: Barry White 57
September 13: Jacqueline Bisset 57
September 14: Sam Neill 54
September 15: Prince Henry 17
Contributing: Tameka Hicks, Evelyn Poitevent, Frappa Stout
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