Issue Date: February 10, 2008
I told my husband that Halle Berry's
significant other, Gabriel Aubry, is the same actor who plays Sawyer in "Lost." My husband does not agree. Who's right?
Lory Maloney, Granby, Colo.
Sorry, Lory, but your husband is right. The blond on ABC's "Lost" is Josh Holloway. You're more likely to catch Aubry, 32, on the catwalk than the small screen. A supermodel from Canada, Aubry, currently under contract with Calvin Klein, has been featured in ads for such big-name designers as Hugo Boss and Donatella Versace. Holloway, 38, one of "People's" 50 most beautiful in 2005, had a pre-acting career as a model, which he will continue this year as the new face of Davidoff's Cool Water cologne.
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Meryl Streep played a mature Lila in the summer movie "Evening," now on DVD. The woman who played Lila as a young girl looked so much like Meryl that I wondered if she was her real daughter.
Maxine Alberts, Phoenix
You are talking about Mamie Gummer, who is Streep's oldest daughter, the second of her four children with her husband of 29 years, sculptor Don Gummer. Following her graduation from Northwestern University in 2005, Mamie, 24, began acting, but she has said that she really began acting at home at the age of 6. You can see the young actress in "Stop-Loss," starring Ryan Phillippe, which is due out next month, and she will appear along with Laura Linney in "Les Liaisons Dangereuses, coming to Broadway in April.
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I'm so glad Candice Bergen will reprise her "Vogue" editor role in "Sex and the City: The Movie." How did she get cast in that series to begin with?
L.S. Cohen, Chicago
Michael Patrick King, executive producer of "Sex and the City," was a favorite writer on Bergen's sitcom "Murphy Brown." When he called, she explains, "I said, 'Sure.' I hadn't read anything. My daughter, Chloe, and I adored the show. I thought how thrilled she'd be visiting the set (she was), and I wanted to work very much with Sarah Jessica (Parker), whom I absolutely love." Bergen, 61, tells us she worked a day on the film. "It was a terrific experience."
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Stephenie Meyer's success began with a dream, which the stay-at-home mom of three developed into her first young adult novel, "Twilight." It spawned two sequels, "New Moon" and "Eclipse." The latter dethroned "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" on the best-seller list. Meyer, 34, is now working on a new novel, "The Host." The story occurs on an Earth populated mostly by humans who have lost out to a body-snatchers type of invasion. Music inspired her: "I was listening to the last U2 album that came out, and I think of the song 'Original of the Species' as my theme song for 'The Host.'"
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Khaled Hosseini, author of the best-selling book "The Kite Runner," says he was astonished at its success -- more than 4 million copies sold worldwide -- because of its "anti-best-seller format." He didn't sell it to Hollywood until after it was published, to much acclaim, and he is happy with the film version, which he says is "very faithful to the book." His latest book, "A Thousand Splendid Suns," is, like "The Kite Runner," set in Afghanistan, and also is a best seller. Of Afghanistan today, Hosseini, 42, says: "It's an exasperating place where good things and bad things are happening, usually at the same time."
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I say that Sam Waterston is the original top assistant district attorney on "Law & Order," but my wife says there were at least two actors before him. Who's right?
John Sbarra, New York City
Neither of you is right. Michael Moriarty played executive A.D.A. Ben Stone during the show's first four seasons. Waterston took over as Jack McCoy at the beginning of Season 5 in 1994. Of course, this season Waterston's McCoy got a big promotion. He's now D.A., the part Fred Thompson left to campaign for president.
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It has been more than a year since Taylor Hicks claimed the "American Idol" title. Where is he?
K. El-Shohdy, Rochester, N.Y.
He's still singing, although he has been dropped by his record label, J Records, which is a unit of Sony BMG. The 31-year-old has "material" and plans to record "on his own," we're told, but we could get no further info.
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BIRTHDAYS
February 10: Emma Roberts, 17; Laura Dern, 41; George Stephanopoulos, 47
February 11: Brandy, 29; Jennifer Aniston, 39; Sheryl Crow 46; Burt Reynolds, 72
February 12: Christina Ricci, 28; Josh Brolin, 40
February 13: Mena Suvari, 29
February 14: Florence Henderson, 74
February 15: Jane Seymour, 57
February 16: Ice-T, 50
Contributing: Reyhaneh Fathieh, Bart Mills, Caren Oppenheim, Jon Tollestrup
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