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Q, One of my family's favorite
* shows in recent years was
What About Brian. Now we see
Barry Watson, who played the
title role, on Samantha Who? Is
Brian over? Also, which one of
the ladies on Extreme Makeover:
Home Edition is Watson's wife?
Nicki Parks, Farmington, N.M.
Brian is long gone, Nicki, and
there’s no chance it will resur
face. So tune into Samantha
Who?, which will return with three new episodes before the
end of this writers’ strike-truncated
season and survive into next season,
too. The real-life wife
are asking about
is Tracy Hutson, a
designer on that
ABC reality show.
THIS WEEK'S
BIRTHDAYS
3.16.08
Brooke Bums 30
Lauren Graham 41
3.17.08
Rob Lowe 44
Gary Sinise 53
3.18.08
Vanessa Williams 45
3.19.08
Jake Weber 45 i
Bruce WHits 53 I
Glenn Close 61 1
3.20.08
Holly Hunter 50
Spike Lee 51
3.21.08
Kevin Federtine 30
3.22.08
Reese
Witherspoon 32
William
Shatner 77 I
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with." Her Med Money co-star Diane Keaton is one.
So is Will Smith. “Some celebrities act like they
don't see you. He's the guy who will speak to every
jP body.” So how does Latifah, who turns 38 on Tues-
J. V day, become approachable? "I tend to pick up on
rap local ways, just to be comfortable," she says. 'When we
were filming Mad Money in Shreveport, i joined
I the gym down the block. I did a little shopping. I
M hit the Super Target and got a Fatburger." Lati
-4 fah has a CD out. Trailin' Light, and a role in
the film What Happens in Vegas, due out May 9.
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USA WEEKEND • March 14-16,2008
By LORRIE LYNCH To ask a question, e-mail whosnews@usaweekend.com or click on “Contact Columnists” at our website. Include name, city, state.
Janine Turner has been a single
mom since daughter Juliette was
bom 10 years ago. Now, Turner has
written Holding Her Head High, about
single moms from the first through
18th centuries. It inspired her, she
tells us, to leave Texas, and family,
for New York City. Before, *1 didn't
feel Kke I could g 0... because maybe
it wasn't the right thing for my
child." Turner, 45, has her eye on
Broadway and a TV talk show and
would love to appear on 30 Rock.
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Watson with actress
Kiele Sanchez on
Samantha Who?
Queen Latifah stalking about celebrities she
would describe as approachable, people'you
could walk up and have a conversation *-
Q. I think Amanda Bynes
* is one of the funniest
comedians ever. I loved her TV
show What I Like About You
and movies like She's the Man.
Where has she been lately?
April Gallagher, Oak Grave, Ky.
On the red carpet,
for one. I had a * 111
chance to see Bynes,
21, up close and per- AM
sonal at the Screen
Actors Guild Awards,
and two things about
her impressed me: First,
she’s normal in size, not
a “lollipop head,” like so
many young actresses who
get too thin, and second,
she’s playful and fun. She
was on the Access Holly
wood, platform to talk ,
with anchor Nancy
O’Dell, and before we
knew it, Bynes had
pulled her Hairspray
co-star Elijah Kelley
up with her, joking
about how she wasn’t
going to give him the
jeweled compact she’d
just received after be
ing named among the
best-dressed.
For daily behind-the-scenes tidbits, check out Lome’s Who’s News Blog at
©blogs.usaweekend.com
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BYNES
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DUCHOVNY
Q. Tell me more about Nathan
* Fillion, who played a doctor
in Waitress: Where is he from?
When might I see him again?
Mary Kinnaird, Baltimore
You should watch Desperate
Housewives, Mary; he took
up residency this season
on Wisteria Lane. He
is from Canada and
started out in high
\ school musicals in
* Edmonton to beat
I shyness. “I remem
/ ber being on stage
/ and that stage fright,
t that excitement—l get a real high off of that,”
says Fillion, 36, who’s set to film Chilled in Mi
-4 ami this month with Renee Zellweger and Harry
A Connick Jr. He recently finished Trucker, about
■ a female truck driver with an estranged son.
Now here's some diet advice I like: "Make food
fun again.'7hat's the strategy Jodi Upper and
Cerina Vincent put forth in How to Eat Like a
Hot Chick, which is getting good shelf display in
bookstores around the country. It's really more
. of an anti-diet book. Upper explains: 'We tell
L women how to eat the foods they love and cut
comers elsewhere so they can look and feel
k their best' Sure, they're not diet experts, but
I that's part of the authors' charm. "We're two
L regular girts who had to figure this all out by
B trial and error, like everyone does," Vincent
says. They confess that they tried ev
ery kind of diet but finally gave
V up on "dieting" because it just
wasn't any fun.
Q, What's going on with my favorite
* hunk, David Duchovny?
Judy Weimer, Indianapolis
He’s a busy man and not just as
the father of two active children
with wife Iba Leoni. Duchovny, 47,
has The X-Files movie sequel com
ing in July. But more important to
those of us who like Califomica
tion, he’ll begin shooting a second
season of that Showtime TV series
next month, d
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Fillion plays doctor
on Housewives, too.
TURNER- LARRY TRAVIS; WATSON, SANCHEZ: ABC/RANOY HOLMES; FILLION: LISA OCONNOR. ZUMA PRESS; BYNES: SARA DE BOER RETNA; LATIFAH W6OOSYAAD/STARMAXINC; DUCHOVNY MICHAEL GERMANA. STARMAXINC