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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. □ YES! Please send me the Hometown Cookbook for only sl4 95 ♦ 54.95 ilh = 519.90 Name Address City State Zip Phone ( ) Send check/money order for 519.90 ($14.95 +54.95 s/h) to American Profile Cookbook, 341 Cool Springs Blvd., Suite 400, Franklin, TN 37067 or Call 1-800-851-5284 or Visit www.americanprofile.com/store EXPIRES 10/27/06 CA. 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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." U Heather ' « .9H. m y -?y Tesch and • : B V y.v - ,J, Seese ”‘-.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. 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