Issue Date: December 7, 2003
I'd like to know more about the personal life of the handsome George Stephanopoulos, anchor of ABC's Sunday talk show, "This Week".
Michelle Dukich, Washington, D.C.
The former Clinton adviser, 42, no doubt still spends a lot of time doing damage control. But it's not Clinton who's making headlines these days; it's Stephanopoulos' tactless wife of two years, Alexandra Wentworth, 37, a D.C.-society-girl-turned-gadabout who loves talking to the press about all things sexual. The co-host (with ex-"20/20" anchor Jack Ford) of the syndicated morning show "Living It Up! With Ali & Jack" told The Washington Post, in response to reports of marital strains, that she and her hubby have sex twice daily. The couple, who have a 15-month-old daughter, commute between an apartment in New York and a home in the Georgetown section of Washington.
My husband says Tyler Florence, the star of "Food 911" on the Food Network, is a "chick magnet." I agree. Please tell us more about the chef.
Janey Price, Pensacola, Fla.
Florence, 32, says he is flattered by such compliments, but they seem to make him uncomfortable: "I'm all about the food. I refuse to have a shtick." Or maybe he's just plain smitten with the woman he's dating, New York PR exec Evyn Block. (He has a 7-year-old son, Miles, from a past marriage.) Florence has a new product line, the Real Kitchen, and a cookbook, "Tyler Florence's Real Kitchen," in stores. Once head chef at two Manhattan eateries, he plans to open his own, with a "sexy farmhouse" theme, in 2005.
Is Adam Brody, one of the cute stars of Fox's "The O.C.," related to Academy Award-winning actor Adrien Brody?
Adrienne Calotta, Dover, N.J.
No. The newbie star, 23, is no relation to Adrien Brody, 30. The younger Brody, who was born in San Diego and moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting in 1999, was mostly unknown before landing the part of Seth Cohen on the Wednesday hit. Besides bit parts in commercials and daytime dramas, he had played Barry Williams ("The Brady Bunch"'s Greg Brady) in the 2000 TV movie "Growing Up Brady." Some critics actually thought he was too good-looking to play the nerdy son in "The O.C.," but Brody's talent outshone even his handsome face.
Is Anthony LaPaglia, who plays just-the-facts FBI agent Jack Malone in CBS' Thursday hit "Without a Trace," the same actor who played Daphne's rowdy, alcoholic brother on NBC's Frasier last year?
Jane McKay, Lake Placid, Fla.
You bet. LaPaglia (La-PALL-ya) seems a natural to play the straight-arrow seeker of missing persons in his current show. But the Aussie actor was so believable as Daphne's sexist, word-slurring brother Simon Moon on "Frasier" that he won a 2002 Emmy for the guest role. LaPaglia, 44, appeared in seven episodes of "Frasier" -- five in 2000 and two more in '02.
What has happened to Julia Roberts? Isn't she making movies anymore?
Edward Eugene Ziegler, Dacula, Ga.
You'll see Roberts, 36, later this month in "Mona Lisa Smile," about a headstrong art history professor who leads a women's rights movement at prestigious, all-female Wellesley College in the '50s. She'll return with much of the "Ocean's Eleven" cast in next year's "Ocean's Twelve," and this month she begins work on a drama, "Closer," with Natalie Portman and Jude Law. Roberts also has been busy with her marriage: She and cameraman Danny Moder spent time in Italy last summer for their first anniversary.
Paula Zahn, 47, a reader favorite since her days as a CBS morning show anchor, is settling into her newest job, hosting CNN's nightly news show Paula Zahn Now. She relishes the luxury of "sleeping in" until 6:30 a.m.; her wakeup time for American Morning was at 4. Plus, "I like living on the edge," says the mother of three. And with news, "no two days are the same." The trade-off, she tells us, is missing dinner with her husband, developer Richard Cohen, and the kids. Zahn, who used to run 30 miles a week and ski semi-professionally, blew out her knee on a Colorado mountain a year ago. Even after six months of intensive physical therapy, "I'm not allowed to run anymore," she says. But she stays positive. And she'll keep striving to get better physically -- as well as professionally.
Is it my imagination, or has Tracy Morgan from "Saturday Night Live" lost some weight?
Vanecia McFarland, Dorchester, Mass.
It must be your imagination, Vanecia, because we're told he hasn't lost a pound. But you will be seeing more of him: After seven seasons playing Astronaut Jones and other silly characters on "Saturday Night Live," Morgan, 35, left that gig last May to make his own sitcom for NBC. The Tracy Morgan Show, which premiered last Tuesday, is based on Morgan's real life as a hardworking Brooklyn family man. It even prompted the comic, a lifelong New Yorker, to move with his wife and three sons to Los Angeles, where the show is taped.
Contributing: Tameka L. Hicks, Evelyn Poitevent, Andrew Smith, Paul Tokarz, Jennifer Vishnevsky
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BIRTHDAYS
December 7: Aaron Carter, 16
December 8: Kim Basinger, 50
December 9: John Malkovich, 50; Beau Bridges, 62
December 10: Raven, 18; Kenneth Branagh, 43
December 11: Teri Garr, 54
December 12: Mekhi Phifer, 29; Jennifer Connelly, 33; Bob Barker, 80
December 13: Jamie Foxx, 36; Steve Buscemi, 46; Ted Nugent, 54; Dick Van Dyke, 78
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