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I c?> E i MILLER I 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 4 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, Jon Tollestrue Brlan Trltit 2 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 J 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 j-uftuißi BARYSHNIKOV in the Sex and the City movie. THIS WEEK'S BIRTHDAYS 10.7.07 Simon Cowell 48 John Meilencamp 56 10.8.07 Matt Damon 37 Emily Procter 39 Sigourney Weaver 58 Jesse Jackson 66 10.9.07 Sean Lennon 32 TonyShalhoub 54 10.10.07 Dale Earnhardt Jr. 33 Mario Lopez 34 Brett Favre 38 10.11.07 Joan Cusack 45 David Morse 54 10.12.07 Marion Jones 32 Kirk Cameron 37 Hugh Jackman 39 10.13.07 Ashanti 27 Kate Walsh 40 Kelly Preston 45 ||. - m VOGT MMER JEN LOWERY, STARTRAXSPHOTO. WOOD: ALLSTAR-GLOBE PHOTOS; BUSH AND HAGER: EfE/ZUMA PRESS, WNGSTON JOHN BARRETT, GLOBE PHOTOS. BARYSHNIKOV: JOE KOHEN. WIRE IMAGE; VOGT: BOBBY BANK. WIRE IMAGE