Issue Date: January 14, 2007
Please answer some questions on the opera group Il Divo. Are any of them married? Where are they from? Will they tour the United States?
Mary Sheppard, Keizer, Ore.
Carlos Marin of Spain became the first of the group to tie the knot when he married Geraldine Larrosa at the Disneyland Adventure Park last year. The group toured in the fall with Barbra Streisand, but no other U.S. dates have been announced. Il Divo, Italian for divine performer, was created by pop music magnate and "American Idol" judge Simon Cowell. After combing the world's opera houses for two years, Cowell signed tenors Urs Bühler, 35, of Switzerland; David Miller, 33, of Denver; French pop singer Sebastien Izambard, 33; and baritone Marin, 38, to form the popular group that's making opera hip.
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Answer to last week's Golden Globes question: Jennifer Aniston, dressed in a John Galliano dress and walking with a cane because of an injured toe, barely had time to sit before her category was called. She won Best Actress in a TV Comedy.
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The SAG Awards
The Screen Actors Guild Awards follow the Golden Globes by just two weeks, and this year the SAG Awards' big moment goes to Julie Andrews. She will get the Life Achievement Award, causing her to look back and ask, "Am I worthy of this? Did I really do that much?" Of course, she is and she did. Still, she tells me, the honor is "humbling." It comes at a time when she's directing and publishing. She runs her own imprint and writes children's books at Harper Collins. Botched throat surgery in 1998 ruined her voice. But daughter Emma Walton Hamilton, who works with her, tells her, "Mum, you've just found a different way to use your voice."
Tell us about Eddie Cahill, the handsome detective on "CSI: NY."
Ruth Jennings, Red Hook, N.Y.
A native New Yorker, Cahill tells us he feels right at home on the CBS show. "I always wanted to be a cop," he says. "A lot of guys I looked up to were cops, including my grandfather. It's still something I think about." For now, he likes just playing one: "The only thing that would be somewhat better is if we shot in New York." Off set, he has a steady girlfriend and a hankering for the blues, which led him to take up guitar. "I have a good time with it. It's one area in my life I try not to be so hard on myself." Cahill is a year shy of 30. Does it feel significant? So far, he says, what he has noticed is when he hurts his hamstring muscle, "pain doesn't go away."
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With his lip rings and tattoos, Jay Bakker -- son of fallen '80s televangelists Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker -- has gone from black sheep to feeding the sheep of his Revolution church, which he leads in a bar in Brooklyn. "I'm trying to be a pastor who loves people," says Bakker, 31, who looks more like he should be touring with a heavy-metal band. "I feel like I've been successful in helping people understand that God loves them the way they are." He's now appearing on the Sundance Channel in a six-part series, "One Punk Under God," chronicling the challenge of running an alternative ministry. "It seems like the media wants to say, 'You're a punk-rock preacher.' [But] if I pull anything from punk, it's loyalty and friendship," Bakker says. "I might seem like a punk because I may cuss every now and then, but I wouldn't seem like a punk to most punks." Amen.
I watch "Cold Case" every Sunday, and I think Kathryn Morris needs a new hairstyle that complements her pretty face. Can anyone help her out?
Clara Lewis, Newbury Park, Calif.
Poor Morris. Viewers just won't let up about the hair. During the show's first season, all we (and they) heard was how awful it looked pulled up or in her face. In response, she went to wearing it down, long. Viewers still don't like it. No wonder the folks at the show have decided they're finished talking about the subject.
The new season of CW's "Reba" has a thin Melissa Peterman (Barbra Jean), who was pregnant last season. How did she make the amazing transformation?
B.M. Comley, Lawrenceburg, Ind.
She's grateful you noticed and says she got "serious" about diet and exercise. "For the first time in my life, I hired a personal trainer because no one checks if you don't go to the gym." Peterman, 36, tells us her diet is heavy on protein and light on carbs, sugar and fat. There wasn't any pressure from the TV show, Peterman says. "I really did it for Riley [who's 14 months old]. I love having the energy to chase my son."
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BIRTHDAYS
January 14: Kristin Cavallari, 20; Jason Bateman, 38; LL Cool J, 39; Emily Watson, 40; Faye Dunaway, 66
January 15: Chad Lowe, 39
January 16: Kate Moss, 33; Debbie Allen, 57
January 17: Freddy Rodriguez, 32; Kid Rock, 36; Naveen Andrews, 38; Jim Carrey, 45; Muhammad Ali, 65
January 18: Jesse Martin, 38; Kevin Costner, 52
January 19: Dolly Parton, 61
January 20: Skeet Ulrich, 37; James Denton, 44; David Lynch, 61
Contributing: Gayle Jo Carter, Jon Tollestrup
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