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Ask American Profile i Q I think Rachel True on Half & Half is so cute. What can you tell me about her? —Tammy Harrison. Carthage. Texas "My father was white, of German and Eastern European background, and my grandmother was a gypsy. My mother is black with some American Indian. I am the melting pot,” laughs the native New Yorker, who says her personality is very much like the character of Mona Tliome site played on the UPN sitcom Half & Half from 2002 until its recent cancellation. She’s 39 and has always looked young—six- was almost 30 when six played a teenager in the 1996 horror movie Tlx Craft. ■ tf/k 9 Loni Anderson plays Tori Spelling's mother on the VHI series So Notorious. Her first acting role, as an endangered beauty queen on a 1975 episode of S.W.A.T.. wasn’t much of a stretch for this one-time Miss Minnesota runner-up. CMT Behind the scenes with Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders It started as a two-hour special last fall, and now Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders: Making the Team is a new eight-episode CMT series that takes you behind the scenes of tryouts for pro football’s most prestigious cheerleading squad, where the women must prove they've got what it takes or leave the field. Watch the pre miere Friday, Sept. 29, at 8 p.m. Central. '* \ \ I \ \ I V t KStIN P Half & Halfs Rachel True Q Whatever happened to actress Loni Anderson? I know she divorced Burt Reynolds many years ago, but is she still acting? — C. Tielert. Selrring, Fla. Since her 1993 divorce from Reynolds, Anderson, 61, has appeared on various TV shows, including Melrose Place , Nurses and Sabrina, the Teenage Witch. She currently I lie new allium from ALAN JACKSONw«I* E.IIs i 1 |\P<l I)I i \ I Produced by \l ISOI I Kl’UUSsf Available September 26"' Q I would like to know about Michael Shanks, who plays Dr. Daniel Jackson on Stargate SG-I. —D. Vardeinan. Waco. Texas Canadian-born Shanks, 35, attended the Uni versity of British Columbia and was inspired to become an actor after seeing the early-1990s TV series MacGyver. starring Richard Dean Anderson—who, years later, would become Shanks' co-star in the futuristic space drama Stargate SG-I. Shanks, who also has appeared in episodes of The Commish , Highlander and NYPD Blue, lives in Vancouver, -ifSjjto) 8.C., with his wife, actress Lexa Doig, who starred in the sci-fi series Andromeda. Q Please tell me whatever happened to Ray Combs, who hosted Family Feud. —Mary Jane O'Bryan. Bullhead City. Am. Combs, who began his career in stand-up comedy in the early 1980 s, was hired in 1988 to host the popular J TV game show, previously I hosted by Richard Daw- I son. But by 1993, ratings m had dropped, Combs’ I contract was cancelled fl and Dawson returned 9 to replace him. This 9 contributed to Combs' ■ depression and subsequent I suicide in 1996. MP» ' Actor Michael Shanks I V -.how ho%( I »i« K l v«■ (( ..... <• wui Kc<| .* '• .1 11 I.tv It I .til JUST RELEASED . . . Kenny Chesney Connects With Fans In Concert Superstar Kenny Chesney's new CD, Live Those Songs Again , is a collection of some of his big gest hits—including “How Forever Feels,” “I Go Back" and “When the Sun Goes Down”— recorded live in concert in four different cities. “I’m not all that dif ferent from the kids who see our shows,” Chesney says. “I sing the songs that feel right to me, and I think those songs feel right for every one who comes out to our shows.’’ d Dick Cavett was always one of my favorite TV talk show hosts. My husband tells me he got his start as a magician. Is that true, and does he have any plans to return to television? —Mary U.. Steubenville. Ohio Cavett, 69, the witty and intelligent host of various talk shows bearing . his name from 1969 to 1996, did L indeed perform as a magician 9 as a young man, even win -9 ning a “Best New Performer” 9 trophy in 1952 at an Intema §9 tional Bn>tlxrh<x)d of Magi ;p9 oans convention. ()n Thurs jjn day evenings through Nov. 99 2, you can see him back HB on the air on tlx TCM ||9 network, hosting "encore” ||9 telecasts of some of his cl.cs §9 sic TV interviews from tlx 9? Bette Davis, Alfred Hitch -9 cock and Katharine Hep ■ bum. A new four-disc DVD. B The Did- Cavett Show: Holly -9 it nod Cliu/tf, repackages more of Cavetts revealing celebrity conversations. ' Cover photo courtesy of CBS | Paramount Domestic Television ♦ 2 f l ff — KEKNY CHESNEJ *:IiVE * *• - - mart ALWAYS LOW PRICES tPgSd "SSST awiita BONY4BMG S A s m v i ««IIC ■■niTAIMMMY