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Ford of Court
TV the son of former
President Gerald Ford?
—Marian Peek, Casper. Wyo.
Court TV’s Jack Ford, host
of the cable network’s series
Banfield & Ford: Court side, is
not related to the late presi-
dent. The confusion may stem from the fact that President
Ford’s son John Gardner Ford, known as Jack, briefly pur
sued journalism before switching to a career behind the
scenes in politics. But the two men are close in age: Court
TV's Ford is 56; the president's son is 55.
Q As a teenager in the
19505, I grew up with the sing
ing group The Ventures. Are
they still around?
—A l Losado. Vallejo. Calif.
Don Wilson, 74, one of the found
ing fathers of the instrumental
rock band that gave the world
the hit song “Walk Don’t Run”
and the theme to the TV series Hauwi Five-0, continues per
forming live. The lineup sometimes includes another original
member, Nokie Edwards, and Leon Taylor, son of Mel Taylor,
the band’s original drummer, who died in 1996. Wilson's
founding partner. Bob Bogle, recently retired, but he plans to
return to the band for its upcoming 50th anniversary. Wilson
remembers the moment his life changed: “Bob and I bought
two guitars in a pawn shop in 1958." Two years later, they had
the No. 2 hit in the nation with "Walk Don't Run.”
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Emma Watson plays Hermione in the Harry Potter movies.
Q What did actress Emma Watson do before the
Harry Potter movies? What can you tell me about her?
—-Jennifer Knight. Adamsville. Term.
Watson, who most recently starred in Harry Potter and the Order
of the Phoenix , now on DVD, was a student before landing the
recurring Potter role of Hermione Granger. Now 17, she was born
in France, then moved to England and starred in several school
plays, always hoping to become an actress. A teacher recom
mended her to casting agents, and at 10 she was on the big screen
as Harry' Potters sorceress schoolmate. She’s a natural blonde (she
dyed her hair brown for the Potter movies), plays hockey and once
dressed up for Halloween as a witch, little dreaming that she
would one day soon become world-famous tor portraying one!
C 5 Can you give me some information on a TV
movie starring Patty Duke and made at the light
house on Bolivar Peninsula near Galveston, Texas?
— DanielCoghlan. Porterville. Calif.
That was Aly Sweet Charlie, which aired in 1970. Duke played a
pregnant young white woman, and A 1 Freeman Jr. was a black
New York lawyer who’d killed a white man in self-defense. Both
w'ere on the run in Texas, where fate brought them together to
hide out in an unused cottage at the base of the Bolivar Penin
sula lighthouse, a real-life structure that guided mariners
'f- for more than 60 years before it was retired in 1953-
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