Issue Date: June 25, 2006
I've been watching for Dawna Stone, who won Martha Stewart's version of "The Apprentice." What happened to her?
Lois McKinney, Whittier, Calif.
Stone, who makes $250,000 working for Martha, has been on Stewart's daytime show, helping viewers achieve goals like losing weight or running a marathon. Plus, she's writing a column for one of Stewart's magazines and hosting a show on Sirius Satellite Radio. "Honestly, I wasn't sure how much time I would have with her," Stone, 38, says, "but she's taking me under her wing."
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Tracie Thoms has no scenes with Meryl Streep in "The Devil Wears Prada," but she's in awe of her work nonetheless. "She's ridiculous the way she can attack a script," she says. "It's breathtaking." Thoms, 30, who joined the cast of CBS' "Cold Case" last season and starred in the movie "Rent," tells us Alfre Woodard is a mentor: "We did Broadway together. That work [theater] is like digging ditches. Most people can't do it, and the financial rewards [aren't much]." Her career is going well, but Thoms confesses she was afraid to commit to acting. "The black women I saw become successful were overwhelmingly gorgeous," she says. "No one looked like me."
I went to high school with Madonna in Rochester Hills, Mich. It's about time for a 30th reunion, and I wonder if she'll attend.
Dave Sheehan, Las Vegas
She missed the 10th, 20th and won't be at a 30th, either, Dave. She hasn't kept up any high school friendships, and she's busy with an international tour. When in Michigan, Madonna heads "up north" (as we Michiganders call almost anything north of Lansing) to visit her dad, who owns a winery in Suttons Bay.
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Amanda Seyfried plays a believable dumb blonde. Her role in 2004's "Mean Girls" "was so like me," she says. "My Spanish teacher called me Astronauta because I was so spacey." Seyfried, 20, started acting in her Allentown, Pa., living room at 6 and began modeling at 11. "I wanted to be a meteorologist," she says, "but I don't have the smarts. Instead, I'd pretend I was Helen Hunt in 'Twister.'" Now Hunt's "Twister" co-star, Bill Paxton, plays her dad in HBO's "Big Love." Her character is "very passive. She has a strong resentment of polygamy and how it's ruining her family. She loves her father and feels she's losing him. "
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Brad and Angelina won't last, nor will Tom and Katie. These are among predictions psychic profiler Carla Baron makes for me while we talk about her new Court TV show, "Haunting Evidence," on Wednesdays at 10:30 p.m. ET. Time will determine the accuracy of those celeb predictions. (She sees lots of reasons for their splits.) On "Evidence," though, cases come together in a half-hour. Baron, 45, says she can sense, hear and see events that the rest of us do not, and "a lot of my most psychic moments ... happen when I get out of my own way, when I let it burst out on its own."
If Prince Charles and Princess Diana had not had Princes William and Harry, who would be in line for the throne after Charles?
Teddi Southworth, Pleasant Valley, N.Y.
It would be Charles' brother Andrew, the Duke of York, second son of Queen Elizabeth. Now it's William, then Harry, then Andrew.
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Robert Duvall is in yet another Western this Sunday and Monday: "Broken Trail" on AMC. "Lonesome Dove," the 1989 TV miniseries in which he starred, remains his favorite of the genre, but "Broken Trail" "is like a nephew," he says. "[It] is a tonic for the nation, with all the negative things going on around." When we spoke, Duvall, 75, had just finished a film in New York and was on a train to Warrenton, Va., where he lives "a nice, relaxed life." He's a tango dancer, so we ask if he'd do "Dancing with the Stars." No, but he did watch "out of curiosity," he says, "except when they did the tango [badly], I had to look away."
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BIRTHDAYS
June 25: Linda Cardellini 31; Carly Simon 61
June 26: Derek Jeter 32; Sean Hayes 36; Chris O'Donnell 36; Chris Isaak 50
June 27: Tobey Maguire 31
June 28: John Cusack 40; Kathy Bates 58; Mel Brooks 80
June 29: Richard Lewis 59
June 30: Mike Tyson 40; Vincent D'Onofrio 47
July 1: Liv Tyler 29; Pamela Anderson 39; Dan Aykroyd 54
Contributing: Gayle Jo Carter, Nancy Mills
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