Question: Is the actor who plays Michael on the series "Lost" the same person who played the paraplegic inmate on the HBO series "Oz"?
Answer: Yep. The fellow's name is Harold Perrineau, and he also played Link in two of the "Matrix" movies.
Question:Please settle a 15-year-old debate between a friend and me. On a random night in the early 1990s, my friend and I both separately watched a very short-lived sitcom on ABC that ran for only one or two episodes. The basic premise was two girls up to no good in New York City. I originally said the show was called "The Belles of Baker Street," while he claimed it was "The Belles of Bleecker Street." Since Bleecker Street is in Greenwich Village, I am only now years later ready to concede that he is right. But before I do, who is right? And did the girls in the show ever do anything else?
Answer: Why settle it now? Your debate will be able to get its driver's license next year! You guys have one of two things: (1) Amazing memories, or (2) No personal lives. "The Belles of Bleecker Street" aired just once, in the summer of 1991 on ABC. Only a pilot episode was filmed. The stars were Melissa Clayton and Barbara J. Gonzalez, who have gone on to a bit of TV and not much else.
Question:Sometime in the mid-1980s there was a TV movie on the lives of the Beatles. I can't remember much of the details except the character playing John Lennon kept calling Ringo by his given name of Ritchie. As I recall, it focused more on their lives, not so much their music. Any help?
Answer: Sounds like the 1979 TV movie "Birth of the Beatles," with Stephen MacKenna as John, Rod Culbertson as Paul, John Altman as George and Ray Ashcroft as Ritchie . . . er, Ringo.
Question:I'm not sure when this show aired, but it was about a woman with Parkinson's disease. Her husband was a writer or a politician and it took place around Washington, D.C. Can you tell me the title of this movie and if it's on video?
Answer: That's the TV movie "Saving Milly," which aired last year. Bruce Greenwood played D.C. pundit Morton Kondracke, and Madeleine Stowe played his wife. "Saving Milly" isn't on video yet.
Question:I can't believe how many questions are asked of you regarding certain songs, but now I'm one of those asking. At the end of the May 4 episode of "American Inventor" they played a version of "Somewhere Over the Rainbow." Can you give me the info on it?
Answer: That version was performed by Eva Cassidy on the CD "Songbird."
Question:Someone recently gave me a copy of the book "The Five People You Meet in Heaven." I have seen this on TV, but I can't remember where. Was it on TV? Is it on video?
Answer: The book became a TV movie in 2004 with Jon Voight, Ellen Burstyn and Jeff Daniels. It's on DVD.
Question:Who does the voice of the gecko on the Geico commercials? It sounds like the actor who played Bob on the WB series "Related."
Answer: The voice is provided by English actor Jake Wood.
Question: During a "Martin" marathon on cable, I saw an episode in which Gina and Pamela were hiding from two bank robbers. My husband thinks that the smaller of the two bandits is Eugene Byrd from "Anaconda: Hunt for the Blood Orchid." I say no way. Is he right?Answer: No way. Larry B. Scott and Christopher J. Williams played the bad guys in that 1996 episode of "Martin."
Question:Can you tell me about the actor who occasionally appears as the chain-smoking priest on "The Bernie Mac Show"? His character is very funny.
Answer: Wade Williams plays Father Cronin. He also plays Capt. Brad Bellick on "Prison Break" and has appeared on episodes of "Las Vegas" and "CSI: Miami."