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Q I would like to know if Ray Price is still touring and
recording. I really love to hear him sing.
—Berne D., Tennessee
Price. 77, is considered one of the greatest country singers ever and is
known for hits such as Crazy Anns. Danny Boy and For Tlx Good 'Times.
However, he's not content to rest on his laurels. He recently released two
new CDs. a solo record called Twit and a duet album with Willie Nel
son tided Run That By Ale One .More Time. "Willie and I have been friends
for so long that it was like sitting down with a brother and feeling com-
fortable in whatever you say or do," he says of the recording ses
sions. Price will perform nearly 1 (K) shows this year, most to sell
out crowds. "I always wanted to be the older peoples singer
anyway." he says. "I wasn't going for the younger people. When
things got so bad in the record industry that only the younger
people would get to play, the older people were ignored. We've
gone back to doing straight old country-type songs.” He may
begin work on a new album soon. “I'm an older person but I'm
still real active and entertainment is my life.” he says. "I want to
continue singing for the older people, the old songs they liked
so much." Price, who has one son, lives on a horse farm in Mount
Pleasant. Texas (pop. 13,965), with Janie Mae, his wile of 35
years. When he's not singing, he's raising thoroughbred horses.
“I love all horses, but the thoroughbred to me is a great creature. "
Q Someone told me Robert Redford refuses to
salute the American flag. He is my all-American
hero. Please tell me this isn’t true.
—Ruth 8.. California
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Absolutely false. “He loves this
country tremendously and that's
why he's working so hard to pro
tect the environment for future
generations of Americans." a
spokesman for Redford says. Redford, 66,
known for his acting talents in films such
as Butch Cassidy and tlx Sundance Kid. also is
a successful director who won an Academy
Award in 1981 for his direction of Ordinar)
People and received a 1994 nomina
tion as director of Tlx Quiz
Shou. More recent
projects include
An Unfinished
Life, a family
drama co-star-
Robert Redford
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Ray Price performs 100 concerts a year and recently released two CDs.
ring Jennifer Lopez scheduled for release next year, and Tlx Clearing, a
kidnapping thriller with I lelen Mirren and Willem Dafoe that will be
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TV host Gene Rayburn.
He hosted a number of game shows, but Tlx .Match Game, which began
in 1962 and—aside from a three-year break—ran for nearly 20 years,
was the one that stuck. And here's an interesting fact: the ultra-slim, long
microphone that Rayburn used on the show—lie invented it.
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out later this year. Redford, a divorced father of
four who lives in Utah, also founded the Sundance
Institute, which holds an annual film festival that
has become one of the world’s most influential
showcases for new movies.
Q I would like to know about Gene
Rayburn, the host of Match Game. Let
me know if he is alive and if he is mar
ried and has children.
Leona W, Florida
Sadly, Gene Rayburn passed away in 1999 at the
age of 81. His wife. Helen, died three years before
he did and they have one daughter. Lynne. You can
still catch reruns of his most popular game show.
Tlx Match Game, on the Game Show Network.
Rayburn was bom in Christopher, 111., (pop. 2.836)
and moved to New York City to pursue a career is
an opera singer. When that didn't work out, he
attended an announcer s school, and after serving
in World War 11, got a job as a page for NBC.
Eventually he worked his way up in television, get
ting his first big break when he was hired to be the
announcer for Tlx Tonight Show with Steve Allen.
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