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Show naSm, Celebrating Hometotin Life PUBLISHER L Dante! Hammond VICE PM3R)NT?EXECUTTVf HMTOR fear Food VICE I saw PftESIDBroCREAnve 4 PRODUCTION Chart Cm Erftw: Ctfd Dam Ntffa the movie The Princess Diaries, Repond Edtoors Saart Englert. Mdwesc Julie Andrews. She's always been a favorite performer of mine. What can you tell me about her? bun $! Southeast Richard Manhavi Northeast Centra; Atari Rocs, West Vida Browm, ffwimti Edksr Prc Ruth N., Tennessee o Joyce twlr Gnxhen Srygtey Art Ofncnn Brcmn Sharp It's hard to know where to start. The Dktccor p Phottfnphy; Randy Janoski actress and PubSodoe Dedyer JessfQ Fotions OmrGmrnr. Cheme Eeachouc Pm cluld and performed with her parents at England's music halls. Her first solo performance came at age 11, when she sang for the Queen Mother Elizabeth and Princess Margaret. Before she turned 20, she came to America and starred on Broadway, first with an incredible their time between homes in California and British Columbia. vocal range. Sadly, in 1997 she underwent throat surgery that Married to film director Blake Edwards, she has raised five children and has wntten children's books. She and Edwards live in New York. Andrews received the prestigious Kennedy Center Honors last year for lifetime achievement as an actress. p plMRp in Id like to know about the man who played the lead In t i the show AlocGyver. Nancy A., Iowa r r Hes Richard Dean Anderson, and you can catch him on the Showtime sci-- fi series StargateSG-i- , for which he is also executive producer. The scries also began airing on the Sci-- 17 He's on Showtime and Sci-F- i. Channel this year. On the show, Anderson plays Col. Jack ONeill, head of a military team that travels through space via a stargate. Its based on the 1994 film of the same name. Anderson was bom in Minneapolis and set out The a as a professional hotkey player. I le broke both career carve to arms while playing the sport, so he turned toward other career options. With a musician father and an artist mother, it was natural that he chose the arts and studied drama while attending St. Cloud State College and Ohio University. After graduating, he moved to Los Angeles and made a living as a street mime, juggler, jester, and from various other jobs. Eventually, he played Dr. Jeff Webber on General Hospital, staying there for series followed, all of them shortfive years. A few prime-tim- e lived until MaiGyver. That show lasted seven years, and the character's ingenious use of everyday objects as handy tools to Page 2 American Profile f Printing Manager get him out of fixes led to a new slang term. (To A LuGyter some- left her unable to sing afterward. p. f Internet Cmcnc Man Johnston ProductmAafcanc in The Boyfriend and most famously in My Fan Lady opposite Rex Harrison. Her first mttvie was Mary Popptns, followed by The Sound of Music, and America fell in love with the young, vibrant star. She continually impressed and surprised her fans, ably handling comedy, drama, and always singing beautifully, fi)ur-octa- Minr Sam Py Product singer has had such an illustrious career and interesting life. Born in England, she showed a talent for singing as a young Kds Holman DtrtfffiutioK Krooc Anderson ADVERTISING SALES VWoPiiihm No i Otago Detrtat NaatwRe Abner and Alley Li AdvwtiWy Tracey Altman to UaArgda thing means using it in an unexpected way.) Anderson has a daughter, Wylie. They and Wylie's mother divide Q Are the comic strips O op still in of OACULAHON production? SAIS hfadwRa Phil P., Texas CORPORATE AMO EDTTORUU. OFFICES Reprints of the original Li'l Abner comic strip appear in some newspapers today, but it ceased production in 1977. Created by cartoonist A1 Capp, the comic strip about the daily doings of Dogpatch, USA, started publication in 1934. 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