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Q i loved The Wonder
Yean. Whatever happened
to the actress who played
Winnie Cooper?
—Barbara Melvoy. Seattle. Wash.
Danica McKellar, who starred
in The Wonder Years from 1988
to 1993, has the title role in
Inspector Mom, a just-launched series of Lifetime Television mov
ies about a crime-solving suburban parent. She also has just
released Daily Dose of Dharma, a DVD of yoga and meditation
exercises. And this UCLA-schooled math
ematics whiz, now 31, is writing a book jj
designed to help teenage girls master the *
tough concepts of middle-school algebra. ■<
Sometimes she even tackles math ques
tions that fans e-mail her through her web
site, dankamckdlar.com. “1 can't resist a math
problem!” she says.
Q Who does the voice for
the GEICO’s gecko? I love him!
—Delores Carey. Shippensburg. Pa.
As for who provides the voice of the auto
insurer's adorable little lizard, nobody's
talking. A spokesperson for the ad agency
that created the GEICO campaign says
secrecy is part of the mystique—and suc
cess—of the gecko, much like puppeteer
Jim Henson kept the identities of the Mup
pet voices a secret The GEICO gecko:
during his lifetime, mum’s the
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Q What can you tell me about William Petersen on
CSI? Has he been in any movies?
—Debbie Hendrick. Corbin. N.Y.
Bom in Evanston, 111., Petersen, 53,
pursued a football scholarship at Idaho
State University before catching the
acting bug. His movies include To lave
and Die in L.A., Manhunter, Cousins,
Skulls, Young Guns II and Tlx Con
tender. On television, he played John F.
Kennedy in HBO's Tlx Rat Pack and
starred in Return to Lonesome Dine and
Long Gone. If you watch closely, you can
see Petersen wearing his old football )ersey (from Bishop Kelly High
School in Boise, Idaho) in several of his movie roles.
Q Can you help with the words to the Chevrolet
song Dinah Shore used to sing on her TV show?
—Sherman Benson. Kenyon. Minn.
Shore, who died of ovarian cancer in 1994, helped Chevrolet become
the best-selling car in America during the years she hosted The
Dinah Shore Chevy Show, from 1956 to 1963, literally singing the car
company's praises in the TV' show's theme song: "See the U.S.A. in
a Chevrolet / America's the greatest land of all / So make a date
today to see the U.S.A. / And see it in your Chevrolet!"
JUST RELEASED...
Alan Jackson teams
with Alison Krauss
Alan Jackson’s 16th album,
Like Red on a Rose, is his
first produced by bluegrass
icon Alison Krauss. “I real
ly have to give her credit
for this whole concept and
sound,” he says. The 13-
song collection. Jackson says, is "an album that you put on
in the evening when you and your spouse are having a glass
of wine and you can just sit back and listen.”
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