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wrote a senior thesis at Princeton on doubling
and gender identity in Jane Eyre. He worries %
that Michael may be “going over to the dark side” '
this season. During his hiatus from the show, Mil
ler didn’t have any commitments. “I had two months
off; and I kept busy changing the oil in my car and
keeping doctor’s appointments.”
Q. I enjoy the Geico cave man commercials. What j
‘ do you think of the new TV series?
Joan Wessman, Durango. Cola I
I think it’s terrible. If ABC's Cavemen (which at I
press time was to premiere last Tuesday) gets a I
second outing, I’ll be surprised. The idea works I
for 30-second commercials but not for 30-minute 1
sitcoms. Don’t waste your time.
He got a personal party invitation from Fergie, opened *
for Beyonce (who's also a fan) and had arguably the
song of the summer. It has been a year to remember
for 17-year-old, baby-faced Jamaican pop star Sean
Kingston. Too bad he hasn't actually had the time to
celebrate it. "When I do have fun, I'm
k gonna do it big," Kingston says. His
jj‘ track Beautiful Girls topped the
Billboard Hot 100 for four weeks
straight Its appeal? A sample from
| Ben E. King's Stand by Me and a
definite old-school flavor. "I was a
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huge fan of the song, and I was
k a huge fan of Ben E. King, so I
I had to do that," says the teen,
I who joins Gwen Stefani on
R tour later this month in Las
KINGSTON
Contributing: B urr Mills, Naxcv Mills, Kathy Rowings,
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USA WEEKEND • Oct 5-7,2007
By LORRIE LYNCH
Q. Wentworth Miller is so
' handsome. Is it true that
he is of African heritage?
Mary Ann Morris, Las Cruces, KM
Yes. Miller, 35, says his black
white racial heritage is as much
a non-issue in his life as it
is in the life of his Prison
Break character: “For
me, being a mixture has
always been a normal
thing.” Miller is perfect
casting as the cerebral
Michael Scofield: He
Vegas. "But what really does
doo-wop for me is the beat
and the vibe. It's feel-good,
and that's the type of music
that I make: feel-good music."
To ask a question, e-mail whosnews@usaweekend.com or click on "Contact Columnists" at our website. Include name, city, state.
Evan Rachel Wood, who played
daughter Jessie in the ABC series Once
and Again, has played other anguished
teens so believably that she is the go-to
actress for, as she puts it "all troubled
Wood: Not
troubled
by troubled
; characters
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Q; When The Price Is
Right returns, will
"Barker's Beauties" be on deck,
or will there be a new cast with host
Drew Carey? Walter M. Gilday Stoughton. Mass.
The “Beauties” will be back. When The
Price Is Right returns for the start of
its 36th season, the only fresh face you’ll
see is that of the affable new host, Carey.
Fans of the game show always have re
ferred to the models as “Barker’s Beau
ties,” but they’re officially called “The
Price Is Right Models.” Fans will have
I to come up with a new nickname for
I them. “Carey’s Cuties,” perhaps?
To Paul Vogt, playing Hairspray hausfrau EdnaTurnblad on Broadway was just a matter of
time. "I always tell people that when you're a big guy in comedy, you're going to wear a
dress," he says, laughing. But the Mad TV alum is no stranger to his feminine side. He has
played a stepsister in Cinderella and perfected Mrs. Garrett, a character from The Facts of
Life, for NBC's The Rerun Show. Off stage, Vogt 42, gets to be a guy again in the comedy
Blonde Ambition, with Jessica Simpson. "I did do a couple of scenes with her, and they wanted
me to improvise a lot and she was just game for whatever," he says. "I had to literally, like,
puli her up off the couch and do all this goofy stuff with her, and she let me do whatever I
needed to. So she was very cool about that” E 3
girl scripts." And she says yes be
cause ‘most girls are troubled.
I wouldn't want to play some
one not troubled. I like doing
things nobody has seen be
fore pushing boundaries."
Wood, 20, lightens up a lit
tle in two new films. She is
Michael Douglas' daughter
in King of California. "We're
like father/daughter goonies.
He has a mental illness, and
I have to take care of him."
In the musical Across the
Universe, she sings nine
Beatles songs—four solo.
"This was the part I said
I’d fight to the death for,"
Wood says. ‘I never sweat,
and I had a layer of sweat
on my back by the time I
was done auditioning."
CELEBGOSSIP
onVOURCELLPHONE |Q) BUZZ
I Jenna and fiance Henry Hager
Q. What happened to first twins
’ Jenna and Barbara Bush?
We don't hear much about them.
Barbara Donaldson, Tallahassee, Fla
Jenna, 25, has a book out now, Ana ’s
Story, based on her experience as
a UNICEF intern in Latin Ameri
ca. She also is engaged to long
time boyfriend Henry Hager (yes,
he’s from good Republican stock).
Because Jenna’s engagement was
announced by the White House,
there’s speculation that she will
marry there. Barbara lives in NYC
and works at Cooper-Hewitt Na
tional Design Museum.
Qj What has Mikhail Baryshnikov
been doing? Where does
he live? Ann Bay'NER, Aurora Cola
He lives outside New York City,
but he runs his dance foundation
and the Baryshnikov Arts Cen
ter in the city. Last summer, he
toured with a dance ensemble. In
spring, he released a children’s
book, Because, about an eccen
tric grandmother who’s light on
her toes. This winter, Baryshni
kov, 59, returns to the stage in
four one-act plays. Alas, there’s
still no word on whether he’ll be
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BARYSHNIKOV
in the Sex and the City movie.
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