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After creating a buzz on local radio, the group hit the big time when they were asked by Bing Crosby to sing on his hit single “Swinging on a Star." Williams later went solo, hosted his own hugely popular TV variety series (The Best of The Andy Williams Show has i just been released on DVD) and gave the world the song "Moon River" from the soundtrack of the 1961 movie Breakfast at Tiffany's. Now 79, he works and performs regularly in Branson, Mo., at the showplace theater named for his signature song. %, Is Gregory Peck dead or alive, and how many movies did he make? —Billie Mayfield. Dos Palo. Calif. Peck, who died in 2003 at the age of 87, ap peared in 54 theatrically released films, includ ing Moby Dick, Twelve O'clock High, Cape k Tear, The Guns of Navarone and The Omen. 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