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Former Everwood star Emily
Van Camp, 21, is now shaking things
up on ABC's Brothers & Sisters. We
indulged in some family talk:
Q: In real life, you have three
sisters. How do you get along?
We had our arguments. ...
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on us in the schoolyard, we j
had each other’s backs.
Q: Patricia Wettig and Sally
Field are your TV “moms."
Have you asked for advice?
They are such spec
tacular women.... And
they’re both great moms.
I have endless amounts to
learn from them.
Q: You have managed to avoid
becoming tabloid fodder. How?
We shot [Everwood] in Utah, so
I was able to work in the busi-
ness and not live in LA. I got to
maintain a low-key, easy, small-town
lifestyle in Utah and in Montreal
[she is Canadian].
Q: Your show has touched on the
war in Iraq. Should TV be topical?
Utilizing a TV show as a vehicle to
inspire a conversation or debate? I
don’t see why not, as long as it’s
not biased.
Q. I thought 7th Heaven was to return.
Patricia Fetters, Indianola, lowa
7th Heaven will begin reruns on the
Hallmark Channel in January. 'Vou can
read how happy the WB was to get the
show and star Stephen Collins in the new
book Season Finale: The Un
expected Rise and Fall of the
WB and UPN. Finale, by Su
sanne Daniels, an ex-president
of the WB, and Variety’s Cyn
thia Littleton, has good insider
bits, such as how angry execu
tives were when Felicity’s Keri
Russell cut her hair short and
how Amy Sherman-Palladino
came up with a setting for Gil
more Girls. (Hint: She vacationed
in New England.)
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USA WEEKEND • Dec. 21-23,2007
By LORRIE LYNCH
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To ask a question, e-mail whosnews@usaweekend.com or click on "Contact Columnists’ at our website. Include name, city, state.
Q> When I see headlines touting
* the latest exploits of Paris
Hilton or Britney Spears, I wonder
who cares enough to make them
worth the attention they get. Are
the media reaching for stories?
Judith Kite, Marysville, Calif.
“A good story is a good
story,” says Harvey Levin,
the man behind the web
site TMZ.com and now its
1 companion, TMZ TV. A
lawyer and former inves
tigative reporter, Levin
says, “People who are in-
terested in the war in Iraq aren’t necessarily
i disinterested in celebrity news.” He swears
that TMZ won’t publish anything ill-gotten;
he claims he turned down “explosive docu
ments” regarding Michael Jackson that clearly
were stolen from his lawyer’s office.
Jennifer Flavin Stallone, 39, worries about money. Yes, the wife of
movie millionaire Sylvester Stallone, the former model and now
mother of three, wants to be self-supporting. She quotes her own
mother's good advice: "Never get used to a lifestyle you can't support
on your own.'That's why she started a skin-care line sold on HSN. Now
she has a second business, Seriesse (seriesse.com), also a skin-care
line, but this one sold direct We wondered what advice she gives her
own three daughters (11,9 and 5). She tells them to stay
away from acting and modeling: 'lt's a difficult world.
Realistically, there's only one Hannah Montana."
12.23.07
Estella Warren 29
Susan Luccl 61
12.24.07
Ryan Seacrest 33
Ricky Martin 36
12.25.07
Sissy Spacek 58
Jimmy Buffett 61
12.26.07
Jared Leto 36
12.27.07
Cokie Roberts 64
12.28.07
Sienna Miller 26
Denzel
Washington 53
12.29.07
Jude Law 35
Ted Danson 60
Contributing: Gayle Jo
Carter, Reyhaneh
Fathieh, Nancy Mills
For daily behind-the-scenes tidbits, check out Lome’s new Who’s News Blog at
@ blogs.usaweekend.com
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Q> Ali Larter is my favorite cast member
‘ from NBC's Heroes. Is she married?
Wade Carmen, Cleveland, Tenn.
She has neither a husband nor children,
but Larter, 31, is no
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commitment-phobe.
She reportedly told A
her longtime boy
friend, fellow ac
tor Hayes MacAr- ,
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thur, she’d marry
him “tomorrow”
after only three
weeks of dating.
And the actress
has said that
she looks for-
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ward to a time_
in her life when
she’s home with
her babies. I
Josh Brolirv now appearing
in No Country for (M Men and
American Gangster, enjoys j
defying expectations. "You
perceive my character in No
Country as a bit dim, but he
prevails," says Brolin, 39, “al
though he has no control over
fate. My Gangster guy walks around
with this feeling of invincl-
bility, and then he does ,
something incredibly cow- I
ardly. Those kinds of roles
keep me interested." To
keep himself busy when
the roles weren’t coming, Brolin wrote and directed a
play, and he wrote and shot a short film, X, starring his
teen daughter, Eden. "She was very effective," he says. *1
saw part of her that I didn't know existed."
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The Stallones, still
happy together
Got an adventuresome girl on your holiday list?
Miriam Peskowitz has the book for you. She
wants to encourage girls "to live really full lives."
She co-wrote The Daring Book for Girls to override
the mixed messages she sees aimed at them
repeatedly. So we couldn't help asking...
Q: What are those messages?
I As girls turn 6,7,8, they are told to “be careful;
J the world is a dangerous place.”... They get the
fa message to be more restrained.
Q: Do TV shows and movies contribute to that?
■ They don’t do a good job, [because] they show
I that to be a tween girl is to be a “mean girL”
Q: What advice would you give moms of girts?
Stand back and let your daughters develop
on their own. We put our girls under so much
pressure. They are now pushed to do better
at school, and be thinner and more beauti
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Brolin, son of James, could
get an Oscar nomination.
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