Show "jiggwt C 'c ' ’ ctdioppiii ' ' ' “ l K ’? r h a - ' QWhat he left v d - T is Steven Ford doing the soap The Young and the Restless? — Lonie Thresher Rhinelander Wis He plays an Army captain A in Shooter an NBC pilot filmed in Bangkok and airing this summer Ford 32 has a ranch in San Luis Obispo Calif runs a thoroughbred racing business (siblings Mike Jack and Susan take part) and sees his folks Jerry and Betty every few months “We were always a close family” he says “But the White House years and my mother’s mastectomy and drug and alcohol problem brought us even closer” SmV tc£' Vxa 3 rzyi T - v ar a 'xerd' v '" s r Svr-n- f -- - i f A What’s up with Tim Rice the Evita lyricist? — David Thomas Apalachin NY Despite weak reviews his latest Broadway musi- A cal Chess is up for two Tony awards Sunday — while former partner Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Phantom of the Opera is up for 10 “It’s really what the audiences think that counts” says Rice 43 who hints of a reunion with creator Webber of five books on Britain’s pop charts Rice plays on a cricket team near his Oxfordshire England home Q Co-auth- My husband says the little girl from Poltergeist died Where does that leave Poltergeist III? — Barbara Cutright Deer Trail Colo Filming was completed by A last summer Heather QWas O’Rourke 12 died of complications in surgery for an intestinal infection Feb 1 Poltergeist III due next Friday will have a dedication to her in the final credits Three other Poltergeist actors have died: Dominique Dunne strangled in 1982 Will Sampson after a O’ROURKE: Famous heart-lun- g for “They’re here!" QWho is the transplant and Julian Beck from cancer highest-pai- d calling the shots this weekend as the Dodgers meet the Cincinnati Reds in LA “I know I can handle anything The pressure is on the young umpires” CALL US! hotline Sunday only 9 a m to 9 pm Leave your question name and daytime phone number Space keeps us from answenng all that come in We regret we cannot give personal responses by mail or phone USA WEEKEND'S Published by Gannett Co Inc fr Editorial Offices: P O USA Copyright 198 USA WEEKEND Allen H Neuharth Chairman John J Curley President & CEO Sines 1953 your Family Weekly 0 WEEKENDJUNE Box 500W Washington DC 20044 (703) 1988 Keeps title baseball umpire? — Randall Buie Irving Texas Nine of the 56 major league umpires calling A sssteeriiikes this season get the maximum base salary of $105000 (Starting pay is $40000) The playing field is “my own world” says the National League’s Doug Harvey an ump for 26 years He’s 9 BRADY: $83500 salary 5 HAPPY James Brady the romance novelist Kathleen working on any more books? — Doris Whitman Collegeville Pa ll You and 25 million other fans can expect H another steamy epic in 1989 The author of 1984’s Come Love a Stranger keeps busy riding and breeding 35 Morgan horses in Princeton Minn QIs press secretary able to work after he was shot? — Judy Livingston Waterloo Iowa Brady 47 works two to three hours a week meeting with the press and White House staff (Marlin Fitzwater runs the daily operations) Shot during a 1981 attempt to assassinate President Reagan Brady has four hours of physical therapy daily best-selli- was Jerry Mathers called Beaver? — Dan Gilzo Rosemont IlL Because a Leave It to Beaver creator had a Navy A buddy called that “I’ve had a lot worse names” quips Mathers now 40 star of TBS’ Still the Beaver QWhy BIRTHDAY TO And June 5 Maurice Sendak 60 Like any kid the author of the children’s classic Where The Wild Things Are wants a “grand surprise” for his birthday But Sendak bom June 10 1928 wouldn’t want to be a child again “God no You’re learning about life you’re reprimanded you’re frightened Sure there are a few happy moments but the trials and tribulations it ain’t worth it” He’ll help bring more happmess with three new kids’ books due this fall f: John C Guinn Senior Editor John Walter Managing Editor Marcia Bullard Assistant Managing Editors: Amy Eisman Janice Naylor Uoyd Art Director Ron Salerno Photo Editor Dixie Vereen President Ray Gaulke Publisher Patnaa Haegeie Adverbsing Headquarters: 535 Madison Avenue New York NY 10022 Advertsing Sales Operation EAST: Joan McCraw Vice PresidentAssociate AdvDirector ert-sing (404) 6 (212) 7 Atlanta Office June 6 June 7 June 8 June 9 June 10 June 11 Chad Allen 14 Bill Moyers 54 Bjorn Borg 32 Pnnce 30 Jessica Tandy 79 Nancy Sinatra 48 Joan Rivers 55 Johnny Depp 25 Michael J Fox 27 Prince Philip 67 Jacques Cousteau 78 Correction Jack Paar was 70 May 1 MIDWEST: Larry Mortimer Vice PresidentAsso0 Detroit Ofciate Advertising Director (31 2) 467-05- 1 0 fice (313) Los Angeles Office (213) 444-21San Franasco Office (415) 956-48Circulation Offices: (212) 6 Product! onVice President John S Garvey Production Offices (703) 284-62- |