Question:Every year at holiday time I remember an animated Christmas special with a character called Heat Miser. What is the name of the show? Is it on video? I think I'd like to see it again.
Answer: That's "The Year Without a Santa Claus," which first aired in 1974. Voices include Shirley Booth as Mrs. Santa, Mickey Rooney as Santa, Dick Shawn as Snow Miser and George S. Irving as Heat Miser. Ho, ho! It's on video and DVD!
Question:I know that Kristen Stewart, who's in the movie "Zathura," is the same actress who played Jodie Foster's daughter in "Panic Room." Prove me right!
Answer: Proven! Stewart played both roles.
Question:Did T.J. Thyne of the series "Bones" play a guy named Neil on the Showtime series "Huff"?
Answer: Yes.
Question:Can you tell me if Kyra Sedgwick of "The Closer" is the same actress who played the hooker on "The John Larroquette Show"?
Answer: Close but no cigar. Gigi Rice, who resembles Sedgwick, played the hooker on that series, which ran on NBC from 1993 until 1996.
Question:My friend has been looking for a movie about two convicts who kidnap a little girl. The little girl called one of the convicts "Bootsy." Can you help?
Answer: That's the 1982 film "Savannah Smiles," with Bridgette Andersen, Donovan Scott and Mark Miller. Miller, who played the father on "Please Don't Eat the Daisies" (NBC, 1965-67), also wrote the screenplay. The movie is on video and DVD.
Question:When I was a kid I remember watching a TV series about two young women who were reporters for a TV news show. I don't think it lasted very long. Any ideas?
Answer: "The American Girls," perhaps? It ran on CBS in 1978 and concerned the adventures of Rebecca Tomkins (Priscilla Barnes) and Amy Waddell (Debra Clinger), who worked for the TV newsmagazine "The American Report." Imagine "60 Minutes" but with people under 80. David Spielberg played their boss.
Question:Please settle a bet! We were watching "The Story of Three Loves" on Turner Classic Movies. There is a boy in one segment who grows up to be the character played by Farley Granger. My friend says the boy was played by Rick Nelson, but I say no way. There's a $100 bet on this!
Answer: As Snoop Dogg would say, that was Rick Nelson, fo' shizzle. You lose.
Question:What is the name of the song played at the very beginning of the Nov. 7 episode of "CSI: Miami"?
Answer: It's "Hung Up," by Madonna, from the CD single of the same name.
Question:In the 1980s, there was a made-for-TV movie with Treat Williams as a mentally handicapped man who fell in love with a woman named Rose. Can you tell me the title of this movie? Is it on video?
Answer: That's the 1993 TV movie "Bonds of Love," with Kelly McGillis and Hal Holbrook.
It's not yet on video.