Question: My boyfriend and I are wondering if the girl who plays the cheerleader on "Heroes" is the same actress who played the daughter of the first coach, then assistant coach in "Return of the Titans"?
Answer: You mean "Remember the Titans," right? And you mean Hayden Panettiere, who plays Claire Bennet on "Heroes," right? She was in that 2000 movie, all right, as the daughter of Bill Yoast (Will Patton).
Question: I am trying desperately to remember the name of the TV series that Kevin Spacey starred in before he became a star. He was a criminal hooked on drugs, and he had a sister. Nothing is riding on this answer, just my sanity.
Answer: Oh — no pressure then. Spacey was a regular on "Wiseguy," a crime drama that ran on CBS from 1987 until 1990. The title role was played by Ken Wahl as undercover agent Vinnie Terranova. Spacey played warped bad guy Mel Profitt in 1988. Joan Severance played his just-as-warped sister, Susan.
Question: I have a question. Recently I heard that the guy who plays Turtle on HBO's "Entourage" died. Is it true?
Answer: Jerry Ferrara, who plays Turtle, is alive and well.
Question: Yesterday I was watching "That '70s Show." It was an episode about Kelso joining the police. Kelso, Eric and Hyde break into the police academy to remove something from Kelso's file. They are caught by an older cop. This older cop looked like Uncle Phil Banks from "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air." Was it? What's happened to him?
Answer: Yep. James Avery, by name. And hey, a guy's gotta eat, right? Avery has been working in such films as "Raise Your Voice" and appearing on episodes of "All of Us," "NYPD Blue," "The Closer," and has two films coming out next year.
Question: I'm really going to test your memory. I would say that in the 1960s there was a movie (I think on PBS) about a poor kid who finds a cat. He hides it and feeds it because the cat's family can't afford to care for it. Does it ring any bells?
Answer: That's a film called "J.T.," which originally aired on CBS in 1969. It was written by Jane Wagner, who went on to become Lily Tomlin's longtime collaborator. The film starred Kevin Hooks (now one of the executive producers on "Prison Break") and Holland Taylor, among others. It won a Peabody Award.
Question: There was a version of "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" that featured former football great Dick Butkus as Brom Bones. I've been looking for this high and low. Is it on video?
Answer: That's a 1980 TV version of the story, with Jeff Goldblum as Ichabod Crane and Meg Foster as Katrina Van Tassel. It was on video, but is now out of print.
Question: Is "The Apprentice" coming back? When? I haven't seen any advertisements!
Answer: Well, you know how media-shy Donald Trump is. "The Apprentice" will be back in January.
Question: I watched CBS' "Cold Case" on Oct. 29, and I need to know the name of the actor who played DJ Hawk (sorry — don't remember his character's full name). He looks so familiar. I can almost picture him being an evil person on another show.
Answer: The character of John "The Hawk" Hawkins was played by Charles "Chip" Esten. You may remember him as a semi-regular participant on ABC's "Whose Line Is It, Anyway?" from 1999 to 2005; or as Josh Porter on the NBC sitcom "The Office"; or as Luke on the Fox series "Party of Five" in 2000.