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Q What can you tell me
about Lucy Lawless from
Xena: Warrior Princess, and
what she is doing now?
—Geri Brija. Mamso. 111.
Lawless grew up in New Zea
land, where childhood friends
good-naturedly called her *eno actress Lucy Lawless
Unco—for "uncoordinated." She admits her first starring role, as
TV's swashbuckling Xena in 1995, was an extreme physical chal
lenge. I was bruised for two years," she says. She's currently
appearing (as a beautiful humanoid robot masquerading as a
TV reporter) on the Sci Fi network series Battlestar Galactica.
and she ll play the lead in a new movie musical called Welcome
to tlx Pleasure Dome. Around home in Lis Angeles, her friends these
days call her Dot, a nickname she chose "because its easier to spell."
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Vincent D'Onofrio
resume is extensive, including roles in Mystic Pizza, Tlx Cell , Ed Wood
and, most recently, Tlx Break- lip. Regarded as an intense, hands-on
workhorse of an actor, he was hospitalized for exhaustion last year
during on-location filming ot TVs Criminal Intent in New York.
CMT j
Laughs and Musk on Foxworthy’s Big Night Out
Jeff Foxworthy becomes a CMT regular in his role as writer,
executive producer and star of Foxworthy's Big Night Out , the
new' weekly half-hour series premiering 7 :30 p.m. CT Fri
day, Sept. 1. Taped in front of a live audience in Atlanta, each
episode features a different country artist (like Kenny Rogers,
Hank Williams Jr., Trace Adkins and Sara Evans) who join
Fbxworthy in comedy skits and also perform their latest hits.
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Q Please tell me about Vincent
D’Onofrio from Low and Order:
Criminal Intent. He seems so intel
ligent and funny.
—-Joan Norman. Bloomfield. lowa
Bom in Bitxiklvn, N.Y., D'Onofrio (pro
nounced duh-NOFF-ree-o) got his start on
Broadway in 1984 and gained 70 pounds
for die role ot an overweight, bullied and
ultimately suicidal Vietnam-era Marine in
the movie Full Metal Jacket in 198 - . His film
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JUST RELEASED . . .
Country legends join
Billy Ray Cyrus on new CD
Billy Ray Cyrus captures the lives
and loves of the average guy on
Wanna Be Your Joe, a new CD of 12
songs all co-written by the singing
Hannah Montana TV star. Country
legends George Jones and Liretta
Lynn make guest appearances on “Country Music Has The
Blues,” “The Man” pays tribute to racing legend Dale Earn
hardt and the multi-million selling Cyrus playfully serenades
his once-signature hairstyle with "1 Want My Mullet Back."
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”‘-.j Are Marshall Seese and Heather Tesch on The
Weather Channel related? They always seem to be wear
ing coordinated colors. We feel they must be married to
dress like that every day!
—Dot and Jerry Autry. Burgaw. N.C.
The Your Weather Today co-hosts are not married to each
other, but they joke about being “work spouses" after spend
ing so much on-air time together since 1999- Tesch picks
out her outfits in advance and tells Seese, who then wears
a tie to match the next day. "1 really enjoy the challenge of
figuring out what might match (Tesch’s) color descriptions
like Pepto Bismol pink.' rust,' 'cooked salmon,' ‘pumpkin'
or robins egg blue,’” he says with a laugh.^
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