Issue Date: April 19, 2009
Does Jane Seymour, or any of the cast of her former drama "Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman," have a plan to bring it back? I still love that series.
N. Mackey, Madison, Ohio
"Their answer is no, no, no," Seymour, 58, tells us of her own unsuccessful attempts to bring the "Dr. Quinn" cast together. "I'm absolutely up for it. It's a joke in our house. I have an entire room full of Dr. Quinn costumes." She knows at least one castmate who feels the same way -- her love on the show, Joe Lando. Seymour and Lando already have made two Dr. Quinn TV movies together, which are available on DVD.
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It has been nearly two years since former "Dateline" anchor Stone Phillips left NBC. Will he return to TV?
E. McCuistion, Dallas
We may see Phillips, 54, back on TV in the fall. We're told that under terms of his disengagement with NBC, he can't be seen on the tube just yet.
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"Beverly Hills, 90210" star Tori Spelling's latest book, "Mommywood," starts with her first pregnancy and goes through the birth of second child Stella, now 10 months. "When you start having kids," says Spelling, 35, whose first book was a best seller, "the stories keep coming." She says her dad, TV producer Aaron Spelling, "was a great storyteller. The stories I loved hearing were about his upbringing … [and] the old Hollywood stories about the [actresses] he dated."
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Tracy Pollan could understand the horror that Beth Twitty felt when daughter Natalee Holloway vanished on a senior class trip to Aruba in 2005. So playing Beth in Sunday's Lifetime movie "Natalee Holloway" was emotionally hard, Pollan, 48, tells us. Still, raising her own four kids, ages 7 to 19, with husband Michael J. Fox in NYC doesn't worry her: "They can walk down the street to get a piece of pizza alone. I think that feeling of independence staves off the greater independence teenagers crave."
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He may play the psychologically distressed Dr. Owen Hunt on "Grey's Anatomy," but offscreen Kevin McKidd is a married dad of two who couldn't be more together. "I like to go to work, do my job, go home and walk my dogs," he says. McKidd, 35, got his big break in the 1996 film "Trainspotting," but before he discovered acting at age 8 in Elgin, Scotland, he was on his way to becoming a juvenile delinquent. "I got in with a bad crowd of older kids," he says. "We did stupid things." In the upcoming action film "Bunraku," McKidd gets to play bad. "I'm completely malevolent," he says. "I had a blast."
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Is Helen Hunt no longer making movies, or have I just missed them?
D. Stein, Beloit, Wis.
She makes movies but chooses carefully, and she directs as well as acts. "I've come to trust that when an acting job I really like comes up, I'm meant to go do that. And when it doesn't, I'm meant to think about what else I want [to be]," Hunt, 45, tells me. Most recent jobs "have been just the right amount of time for someone who likes to be home with her kid." Her daughter, Makena Lei Gordon Carnahan, 4, is the center of her life; "my true passion," Hunt says.
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What happens to the beautiful costumes after each season of "Dancing With the Stars?"
Carol Brown, Athens, Ga.
"If something can be recycled -- men's black pants, for example -- we will keep them in stock," says costume designer Randall Christensen, who, with his crew, designs and sews every costume and all accessories on every show. And "lots of the costumes have been used on the 'Dancing With the Stars' tour." But the show also has donated some to charity, and some are available for purchase. Says Christensen: "Many competitive ballroom dancers would love to have a costume from the show."
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BIRTHDAYS
April 19: Hayden Christensen, 28; Kate Hudson, 30; Ashley Judd, 41
April 20: Joey Lawrence, 33; Jessica Lange, 60
April 21: Tony Danza, 58
April 22: Jack Nicholson, 72
April 23: Melina Kanakaredes, 42; Valerie Bertinelli, 49
April 24: Kelly Clarkson, 27; Barbra Streisand, 67; Shirley MacLaine, 75
April 25: Renee Zellweger, 40; Al Pacino, 69
Contributing: Gayle Jo Carter, Reyhaneh Fathieh, Nancy Mills
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