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member of the ’6os band The Lovin' Spoonful, he also was the
creative force behind the groups hits “Do You Believe in Magic,"
“Summer in the City.” “Make Up Your Mind” and “Nashville
Cats.” Now 64, Sebastian continues to write, record and perform.
He lives in upstate New York with his wife and two children.
Q What happened to the actors who played Spin
and Marty, the series within the old Mickey Mouse
Club TV show?
—David Liggin, El Centro, Calif.
Tim Considine and David Stollery. now both 67,
played die respective title characters in a Spin and
Marty movie and three serialized TV offshoots in
the 19505. Considine went on to play Mike, the
oldest sibling on My Three Sons , but then turned
mostly to writing and directing for television, later
becoming a photographer, journalist and auto
racing expert. Stollery left Hollywood at the end
of the series and became an automotive designer.
Today he owns an engineering firm that makes
patented fiberglass lifeguard towers.
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—-Joy Schriewer, New Braunfels. Texas
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Q What can you tell me about Jen Carfagno from
The Weather Channel?
—-Jessie Young. Fishertown. Pa. Meteorologist
Jen Carfagno
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analyst for The Weather Channel's First
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Mayo died in 2001 of a heart attack in Atlanta’s
Grady Memorial Hospital, a facility that happened to share the
name of the character that became his trademark.
Q Fred Travalena is such a good
impressionist. What is he doing now?
—Betty Mechem. Union. Mo.
Travalena, 65, performs several weeks each
year on Royal Caribbean causes and makes
other appearances around die country’. At
age 6, his father taught him how to imitate
"tough-guy” actors Edward G. Robinson
and Jimmy Cagney for a church show, but
it wasn't until lie was 19 and saw' his idol.
Frank Sinatra, that Travelena decided to make impressionism a
career. He still laughs about die time his father brought him on
stage and he threw up. “My dad stood there and said, ‘Ya know,
that’s a tough act to follow,’" recalls Travalena. who lives in the Los
Angeles area w'ith Lois, his wife of 37 years.
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0 What was the name of the actor
who played Grady on Sanford and Son,
and what other acting work has he done?
—-Jery Lewis, Kannapolis. N.C.
Although he went on to make guest appearances
in numerous other television shows and the movies
Boyz in the Hnoii\ Waterproof and April Grace, actor
Whitman Mayo will be forever remembered as the
Sanford's scatterbrained neighbor, Grady Wilson.
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