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Q Bruce Jenner, the
Olympic gold medalist,
always seemed like such a
decent, all-American guy.
What’s he doing nowadays?
— N. Sears. Magnolia. Ark. Bruce Jenner won big in 1976.
Jenner, 56, recently appeared on TV’s Skating with Celebrities
with TV ice-partner Tai Babalonia. “I'm proud of what I did
considering I had no experience and have an arthritic knee,"
says the 1976 Olympic decarhlon winner. These days the father
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Jenner today with wife Kris and
daughters Kendall, left, and Kylie
Q Whatever happened to Fess Parker, the guy
who played Davy Crockett?
—Liz McCormick. Las Vegas. Sec.
Parker portrayed the famous
frontiersman only a handful of
times, in several episodes of the
Walt Disney-produced 1950 s
Davy Crockett TV mini-series,
and later in a couple of mov
ies. But it was enough to ignite
a nationwide Crockett craze
of coonskin caps, toy muskets
and other spinoff merchandise.
Parker also portrayed that other
famous frontiersman, Daniel
Boone, on the TV series of the
same name from 1964 to 1970. Now 83 and retired from
show business for nearly 30 years, he owns and operates
the Fess Parker Winery and the Wine Country Inn and
Spa in Los Olivos, Calif.
CMT
“CMT Sure Thing Fridays*’
Start the Weekend in Style
Kick off the weekend with “CMT Sure Tiling Fridays”
featuring Trick My Truck, now in its second season, at 7 pan.
Central and Foxwortby’s Big Night Out, a new 12-episode
series scarring Jeff Faxworthy, at 7:30 p.m. Central. Let Truck’s
ookxful Chrome Shop Mafia customizers and Fbxworthy’s
parade of laughter and live music—from a variety of country
star guests —start your weekend in style!
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of 10 children travels
with his motivational
speaking presentation
called “Finding the
Champion Within,"
heads Bruce Jenner
Aviation, an aircraft
sales company, and
is a spokesman for
Euflexxa, a lubricant
for arthritic knees.
Retired actor Fess Parker
Q I’ve been watching the new Curious George
series with my children and noticed the narrator
1 is William H. Macy. His voice sounds familiar—has
he been in any movies or TV shows?
—Paige H., Corvallis, Ore.
Indeed, the talented Macy—who narrates the new daily
PBS adventures of the “curious little monkey” who’s
thrilled kids since the first Curious George book was
published in 1941 —has appeared in more than 100
movies and TV series, including the films Fargo, Sea
biscuit, The Cooler and Magnolia. The native Floridian is
married to actress Felicity Huffman, who stars on TV’s
Desperate Housewives.
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What can you tell me about TV Judge Maria
Lopez? I don’t know anything about her, but she
sure seems like she knows her stuff—and isn’t
afraid to say it!
—Sandy L., New Vim. Minn.
Lopez, the outspoken real-life star
of the new syndicated Judge Maria i
Lopez TV series, is a former Mas
sachusetts Superior Court judge
whose 14 years on the bench were
sometimes controversial. (She
resigned in 2003 after an
outcry over her handling
of a case in which she fIHH
gave probation—instead I
of a harsher sentence —to I
a confessed child molest
er.) Her husband, Stephen
Mindich, also is in the media
spotlight as publisher of the
Boston Phoenix, an alterna
tive newspaper.
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Jake Schoellkopf
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