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Q I’m just curious: What’s the biggest-selling
commemorative U.S. postage stamp of all time?
—As. Marcus. New Haven. Conn.
When ic comes to the post office. Elvis is still the king.
The 29-cent Presley stamp issued in 1993 has sold more
than 517 million copies; if you put all of them together
side by side, they'd stretch from New York to Tokyo. Pre
sley, of course, never lived to see his U.S. Postal Service
honor. He died 30 years ago this Aug. 16.
Q Is journalist Chris Wallace
related to Mike Wallace of 60
Minutes?
— L. Helms. Ponca City. Okla.
Yes, Mike Wallace is Chris' father,
although the hard-charging 60
Minutes correspondent and his wife
divorced when their son was 1;
Chris grew up with his stepfa
ther, Bill Leonard, who eventu
ally became president of CBS News.
Since 2003, Chris, 59, has hosted
the Fox-TV weekly Fox News Sunday
series, which followed his previ
ous longtime positions with the
NBC and ABC networks. Mike, 89,
retired from 60 Minutes last year,
but returns occasionally for special
assignments.
What happened to Charlotte Church, the
young singer from Wales? She had the most beauti
ful voice I’d ever heard.
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Q Has the actor who
plays Don Draper on the
new TV series Mad Men
made any movies? He
reminds me of someone
in the movie We Were
Soldiers.
— B. Smalley . Maser lathe. W 'ash.
Jon Hamm, one of the stars
of the new AMC-TV series
Mad Mm. appeared as Capt.
Matt Dillon in VtC U '/ere Sol
diers. A Missouri native who
taught acting in St. Louis
before coming to Hollywood in the late 19905, Hamm, 36,
also had recurring TV roles in Providence. The Division and
What About Brian. Single but attached and now living in Los
Angeles, he says the acting bug first bit when he landed his
earliest role: Winnie the Pooh in a first-grade play.
Q What is “Boston Rob” Mariano doing these
days? I loved him on Survivor and The Amazing Race.
—Cindy S.. Palo Alto. Calif.
Boston-born Mariano, 31, didn't win either one of those TV
showdowns. But he learned a lot, and he’s now putting his
experience to work as the host of a new in-the-works TV com
petition called Tontine. He’s traveling city-to-city to audition
gung-ho, willing-to-do-anything contestants for a scheming
100-day race that will visit every continent on Earth before
awarding one final winner a cool SlO million. What makes the
former reality-show competitor the perfect reality-show host?
“I know all the tricks of the trade,” he says with a grin. Tontine
will tape later this year and air next spring.
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“Boston Rob” Mariano is looking for contestants for a new
TV competition called Tontine, scheduled to air next spring.
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