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Q What is Lou Christie
doing these days and how can
I find out his tour schedule?
—Donna bare. Alliance, Ohio
Born Luigi Sacco in Glenwil-
lard, Pa., Christie, 64, con- Pop singer Lou Christie
tinues to perform the 1960 s pop hits that made him
famous, “Lighrnin’ Strikes” and “I’m Gonna Make You
Mine.” You can find his tour schedule on his website,
wuw.lou~christie.com. “The shows get better and better,”
says the singer, who adds that his trademark falsetto is
as strong as ever. “I still sing everything in the same key
I recorded it in." Christie's 1966 hit "Rhapsody in the
Rain” sparked a firestorm of radio controversy with its
steamy tale of a teenage romantic encounter punctuated
by the sound of a car’s windshield wipers that seemed to
whisper "together, together" and “never, never.”
Cash Cab is a clever idea for a TV show. Inter
ested to know if cab driver Ben Bailey was a cab
driver before this show? And did he create it?
—Gene Lachawicz. Dnnsrnuir. Calif.
It would be a great story if Ben Bailey had been a cabbie
and created the hit Discovery Channel game show, which
takes place inside the cab he drives around New York.
But he was—and still is—a standup comedian by trade.
He had to obtain a taxicab driver's license to get the
Cash Cab job. Several years ago, Bailey, 36, was answer
ing phones in the office of the famed Comedy Store in
Los Angeles when he decided to try his hand at making
people laugh. Since then, he has performed on all the
late-night TV talk shows and in clubs across the nation.
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Cash Cab.
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Q Who’s the lady who did the voice of Felix the
Cat? I understand that she was a pretty lady. I think
she should get more recognition.
—Genevieve Daniels. Shamokin. Pa.
Felix, one of the first cartoon
superstars, got his start in the
1920 s in a newspaper comic strip.
He later made the leap to short
silent theatrical movies, but
was eclipsed by another cartoon
character, Mickey Mouse, when
"talkies” took over in the 19305.
Felix was resurrected in the late ’sos
for television, where he finally got a voice—but it was
that of a man, Jack Mercer, who also supplied the voice
of Popeye the Sailor in many Popeye cartoons of the era.
You can see 31 episodes of vintage Felix from 1958
and ’59 on the just-released DVD Felix The Cat: Golden
Anniversary Edition.
CJ Was the actor who plays the detective on
Amazing Grace one of the police-
men on The Shield ?
—Frank Canton. Hagerstown. Md.
Kenneth Johnson, who now steams
up the screen as police Detective
Ham Dewey on the TNT series Sav
ing Grace, went out with a bang last
year on the FX cop drama Tlx Shield—
his character, corrupt Detective
“Lem” Lemansky, met his
untimely end when a gre
nade exploded in his
lap. A native of New
Haven, Conn., John- }
son, 44, is a former I
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Major League 3.
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