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Q What’s Edd Hall doing
these days after leaving The
Tonight Show?
—Marguerite S., Virginia
The former late-night announcer, who
worked with Jay Leno from 1992 to
2004, has a few projects in the works,
including providing a voice in the
upcoming animated film, Gepetto’s
Secret. A native of Boston, Hall grew up
in Coming, N.Y. (pop. 10,842), where he got his first announcing
job at a radio station at age 14. In addition to announcing, Hall is
a comedy writer and a graphics designer—-he did logos for David
Letterman’s Woddwide Pants production company and Everybody
Loves Raymond. A devoted dad to three children from a prior
marriage, Hall, 46, spends his spare time in the kitchen. “I have a
passion for cooking and luckily my family has a passion for eating. I
especially enjoy cooking Japanese cuisine and ‘inventing’ gourmet
meals from scratch,” he says. “In fact, I plan on winning the
Pillsbury Bake-Off this year, so if you were considering
entering, don’t bother.”
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Lynn’s videos Portland, Oregon and I
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album. White Blood Cdls. to
Lynn and then invited her to
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—Claudia C., Oklahoma
Jack White, 29, is one half of the rock
duo called the White Stripes, with whom
Loretta Lynn, 70, recorded Van Lear Rose,
which recently won the Grammy for Best
Country- Album. Detroit-born White
arranged and produced the album, and
sang the duet Portland. Oregon. While it
seemed an unlikely pairing. White has
they talked about collaborating. She has said that White’s produc
tion method was very reminiscent of early producer Owen Bradley,
and she and White have suggested there will be two more pairings
in the future.
I would like to know what the Chi-Lites are
doing now. Where can I write Eugene Record of
the Chi-Lites?
—Brenda V., North Carolina
The Chi-Lites have been performing since the 19605, with various
members coming and going. Two founding members—Marshall
Thompson and Robert “Squirrel” Lester—are still with the group,
along with Tata Thompson and Frank Reed. Tour dates and a live
2004 CD and DVD are available at www.chi-lites.info. In 2000, the
Chi-Lites were inducted into the Rhythm & Blues Hall of Fame,
at which former leader and songwriter Eugene Record performed
with the group for the first time in 14 years. Record, 64, left the
Chi-Lites in the late 1980 s, citing business reasons. He lives in Chi-
cago with his wife, Jacki, with whom he has a daughter, Gena, 30.
He also has four other children from a previous marriage. Record has
not performed recendy due to illness, but his gospel CD (recorded in
2000) can be ordered through uwu.lethimin.com. You also can hear his
song Are You My Woman sampled as part of singer Beyonce Knowles’
music for Crazy in Lote, and recently his There Will Never Be Any Peace
tune was used to create Fantasia Barrino’s Baby Mama. You can write
to Record: do Evergreen Records, 1507 East 53rd Street, Suite 148,
Chicago, IL 60615. “He spends a lot of time with his grandchildren,”
his wife explains, “and being at home and being involved in church.”
Actor Josh Lucas
as Luke McGregor in the Family Channel series Snowy River: The
McGregor Saga in 1993. Bom Joshua Maurer in Arkansas on June
20, 1971, the 6-foot-l-inch actor moved around the South with his
politically active family before setding outside of Tacoma, Wash., and
bypassed college to pursue acting. The bachelor has three films sched
uled for release this year: An Unfinished Life with Jennifer Lopez and
Robert Redford, Stealth and Glory Road.
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—Helen L., New Mexico
Actor Josh Lucas, who has been called “a
young Paul Newman,” has an impressive
resume. Before being cast as Reese Wither
spoon’s husband in 2002’s Sweet Home Ala
bama and in films such as 2001 s A Beautiful
Mind and 2004’s Undertow, he appeared
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