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It's been a year since
Jordana Spiro, the
star of TBS' series
My Boys, has been
on the set with her
boys that is, her
co-stars. In the sit-
com, which returned for a second
season this month, Spiro, 31, is a
Chicago sportswriter with mostly
men for best friends. So is it the
same with them offscreen? "The
guys are amazing," she tells us.
"They're so smart and funny, but
they also know how to have real,
genuine conversations.'But being
the only girt around that many
guys can be tough. Do they pick
on her? "Oh, they make a lot of fun
of me. They're like my brothers.
Everybody picks on everybody."
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k Pete Sampras is a tennis legend. Still, he was nervous M
I about telling his story in A Champion's Mind: Lessons |
f] from a Life in Tennis. Why open up now? “This is my turn K
/ to speak," Sampras, 36, tells us.'l wanted to share how I V
felt about things. There were certain moments when the 1
press blamed my wife for some of my defeats, and I wanted
to set the record straight. It's an honest candid look at
my career through my eyes." It is, indeed, touching
on some moments never revealed before, in-
M eluding his struggle with a genetic blood disor
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USA WEEKEND • June 20-22, 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.
Q, How is legendary actress Doris Day these days?
James Brown, Donnelly, Idaho
At 86, Day is in good health and devotes her time to animal rights.
Fans will want a copy of New York theater critic David Kaufman’s
just-out bio, Doris Day: The Untold Story of the Girl Next Door.
Kaufman tells us he wrote about Day because he “felt her talents
had been neglected. Unfortunately, her manager/husband subjected
her to so much schlock at the end of her career that [those films]
are what she’s remembered for.” Among the surprises Kaufman
says he found: “She would not see her own movies,
She’d show up at a premiere to mtmduee it, but she
would sneak out the door when the film began.''
Read more of our interview at usaweekend.com.
Q. What has former JAG star
* Catherine Bell been working on?
H.K. Dawson, Warn ego, Kan.
Lifetime’s Army Wives, now
in Season 2. “I’m trying to §T
make Denise [her character] ft
more like me,” says Bell, h||
who rides motorcycles and !
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hopes to continue flying
lessons, with Lifetime’s I
permission. Bell, 39, says
her mom encouraged her
rebellious side. “She broke
all the rules,” says the i
London-born actress. “She
is a Persian woman from
Iran who ran off and mar- J
ried an Englishman.” J
Now, Bell and her hus- «
band, screenwriter Adam 1
Beason, w r ant daughter
Gemma, 5, to get the “live
life to the fullest” spirit.
der and a two-year battle with a
stomach ulcer.
Sampras scores
with a new bio.
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* the Stars contestant
If Mayweather Jr. married? Any fHn
I children? Will he join a summer
W DWTS tour? C. Micheyl, Brooklyn ; N.Y.
At press time, there were no plans for
U/ a summer Dancing tour. The boxing i
champ, 31, probably will spend the jj
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■ ber rematch with Oscar De La Hoya.
(Mayweather won their last fight in May 2007
in a split decision.) He has four children and
a significant other but isn’t married.
Q, I would like to know more about Fox News
* Channel reporter Shepard Smith.
Maxine Verhoefk, Hickman. Neb.
The Holly Springs, Miss., native says his
“middle of the country” mind-set sets him
apart from the Eastern media elite: “When
I was a kid, my parents used to say that what
we see on TV isn’t about us.” A standout for
his Katrina coverage, Smith, 44, says he just
“plays it straight” in telling the news, a
Contributing: Gayle Jo Carter, Nancy Mills. Kathy Rowings, Jon Tollestrup
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Perhaps you no
ticed Olivia Thirl
by, 21, as Ellen
Page's best friend
in Juno. Now the
actress has multi
ple films coming,
including The Wack
ness, which won
THIRLBY
this year's Audience Award at the
Sundance Film Festival and is to
open in NYC and LA. on July 3. "I led
a normal life until I was 18," says
Thirlby, who grew up in New York
and still lives there. She made her
film debut in United P 3 as a passen
ger. Thirlby relates to independent
minded girls because she is one. "Ail
through high school, I had a peculiar
way of dressing,” she says. "My
goal was to wear as many dis-
IB ferent colors and patterns
at once as possible."
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Mayweather:
No dance plans