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QMy sister says that Dennis
Hopper is the son of
Hollywood gossip Hedda
Hopper. I disagree. Who's right?
Ardith G. Liercke, Santa Barbara, Calif
You are. Hedda Hopper’s only
son died in 1970. Dennis Hop
per, 72, is alive, well and playing
a record producer in Crash, an
edgy new drama on Starz. Hop
per’s own TV viewing habits are
less edgy. He watches the news,
sports and, “with the wife, Des
perate Housewives.”
QWill Survivor ever take place
in the USA? There must be a
place that's remote enough.
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It’s not just about being remote.
It’s also about being ex
otic, Survivor host and
i producer Jeff Probst
tells us. “We promise
I the viewer an adventure
to somewhere that they
will probably never go,”
he says. “That’s tough
to pull off if you go to
Detroit or Montana.”
I I don't remember
I hearing when
Giada De Laurentiis
had her baby. Girl or
boy? How old now?
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Susan Kawano, MilUani, Hawaii
De Laurentiis’ daughter. Jade
Marie De Laurentiis Thomp
. son, was bom March 29 in
■ Los Angeles; she turns
8 months this weekend.
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Hopper on
his new Crash:
"There are
no barriers."
Gene Flakes, Laurence. Kan.
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Q Stephen Moyer is delicious as the
vampire in True Blood. Tell us about
him. He and Anna Paquin have great
chemistry in this new HBO series.
Dawn Ordway, Palm Desert, Calif
Moyer, who is British, single and a fa
ther of two, describes it as "alchemy.” H|
He tells us his kids know he’s an actor
and have been on set “when the ac-
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fact.” HBO gave the series an early fl ' j
second-sous, .n renewal: when we fl
talked. Moyer. 39. was feeling as if
‘The pressure is off.” Still, playing |VJj
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always the one on the night shoots.” m
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saying these bitter things.'
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just. It's not just a little bit
wrong. It's very, very
pft wrong. I get up. and I'm
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For da»ly behind-the-scenes tidbits. check out Lome’s Who’s News Blog at
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Qls Grey's Anatomy's
Dr. Hahn the same
actress who played the 1
victim who survived in i
Silence of the Lambs? ■
Lori Nuckles
k Lynchburg, Va.
■ Yes she is
■ Brooke Smith,
B 41. and. unfor
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9 run on Grey's
9 is over. The
9 daughter of a
fl|f powerful Hollywood publicist. Smith,
married and a mom of two, grew up
fl around actors. Did it influence her ca
reer choice? “Dr. Freud would probably
have a lot to say about it,” Smith says. “My
mom was always off with actors. Those were
the really important people.”
QWhy is Boston Legal
in its last season? It
has the best actors and
writers of all shows on TV.
Tom and Sandi Catencamp
Tomahawk, Wis.
It almost didn’t come back
isl at all: ABC and creator
David E. Kelley couldn’t
■ come to an agreement. The
" short 13-episode season is a
compromise. But you can see
plenty of Legal s William Shatner, 77, on Raw Nerve,
a talk show on A&E’s Bio Channel starting TUesday.
Host Shatner says he gets celebs to lower their guard.
“[They] know I’m not going to hurt them,” he tells us.
He credits his own experiences “We’re kindred
spirits”—in landing interview subjects like Jimmy
Kimmel, Valerie Bertinelli and Leonard Nimoy. a
Contributing: Gayle Jo Carter, Nancy Mills
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Smith's Grey s days
ended abruptly
earlier this month.
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