Ask Stacy: Measuring Up Tiger Woods & Wife Elin Nordegren; Julia Roberts Voice?
By Stacy Jenel Smith
Mar 16, 2009
DEAR STACY: Please tell me Tiger Woods' height and the same for his model wife, Elin. -- Raquel N., Brooklyn, N.Y. DEAR RAQUEL: Woods is 6'1", and Elin (nee Nordegren) is 5'10".
DEAR STACY: My husband and I would appreciate your help on a TV question. The program: "The Closer." Kindly tell us the actor's name who plays the father of the show's star. Also, what other shows has he appeared in through his career? -- Barbara B., Somerset, N.J.
Measuring Up Tiger Woods & Wife Elin Nordegren
DEAR BARBARA: That's 68-year-old Texas native Barry Corbin in the role of Brenda Johnson's (Kyra Sedgwick) father, Clay. He's a familiar face from dozens of film and TV roles, including that of retired astronaut Maurice Minnifield on "Northern Exposure," that of bumbling deputy Roscoe Brown in the "Lonesome Dove" miniseries, and that of basketball coach Whitey Durham on "One Tree Hill." On the big screen, he's remembered as John Travolta's uncle in "Urban Cowboy," as the general in "WarGames" and as Tommy Lee Jones' uncle in "No Country for Old Men."
DEAR STACY: A few years back there were some AOL commercials with a female voice over, and it sounded a lot like Julia Roberts, and I was just wondering if you could tell me who it was. -- Misty, Elyria, Ohio
DEAR MISTY: That was Julia Roberts. This decade has seen a growing number of A-list celebrities doing voiceovers on commercials on which they'd never actually show themselves. The list goes on and on, from George Clooney for Budweiser and Brad Pitt for Heinekin, to Antonio Banderas for Nasonex to Kevin Spacey for Honda. It's lucrative and easy for them, and companies love the star luster and sort-of endorsement
DEAR STACY: On TCM Feb. 6, "Dr. Strangelove: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb" was on. At the end, there was a song, "We'll meet again, don't know where, don't know when ... " A lady sang it. Where can I get this song? -- Elissa H., New York, N.Y.
DEAR ELISSA: The 1939 song "We'll Meet Again "(by Ross Parker and Hughie Charles) is a WWII favorite, and is featured in several collections of tunes -- including an album titled "We'll Meet Again" -- by British songstress Vera Lynn, a.k.a. "The Forces' Sweetheart." Lynn performed it in the 1943 musical movie "We'll Meet Again," and it's her version used in "Dr. Strangelove." You can find it on Amazon.com and other record outlets. The song was also covered by Johnny Cash, Pink Floyd, The Turtles and Barry Manilow. Dame Vera, 92, is expected to publish her memoirs soon, by the way, under the title "Some Sunny Day."
DEAR STACY: Can you tell me if Michael Jeter of "Evening Shade" fame was the bad guy in "Jurassic Park III"? I know he passed away a few years ago. Was it from AIDS, as I heard? -- M.C., Chesterfield, Mo.
DEAR M.C.: Playing the villain in "Jurassic Park III" was indeed on Jeter's long list of credits -- which also included a Tony win for "Grand Hotel," an Emmy win for his high school math teacher portrayal on "Evening Shade," Emmy nods for guest-star work on "Chicago Hope" and "Picket Fences," and memorable film work such as playing a cabaret crooner in Robin Williams' "The Fisher King." He was also known as Mr. Noodle's brother, Mr. Noodle, on "Sesame Street." He died at age 50 of complications from AIDS in March 2003.
DEAR STACY: What happened to Joyce DeWitt of the 1970s show, "Three's Company"? -- Patrick R., Staten Island, N.Y.
DEAR PATRICK: DeWitt turned her back on Hollywood for more than a decade after "Three's Company" ended, burned out on the heartlessness of the industry after all the turmoil behind the scenes on the sitcom -- which, for her, ended with not being told in advance that she was being written off since John Ritter was going to have his own spin-off series. She traveled extensively -- Egypt, Peru, Bali -- lived in Santa Fe, N.M., and focused on spirituality, meditating nine hours a day, she has said. She was a co-producer on the 2003 "Behind the Camera: The Unauthorized Story of Three's Company," which detailed the bitter off-camera feud caused by Suzanne Somers' mid-season salary negotiation ploy. (DeWitt remained good friends with Ritter until his death in 2003, but she and Somers have never been friends again.) She's done a lot of work in regional theater as a director as well as an actress. As a singer, she's performed in venues including Joe's Pub and the Oak Room at the Algonquin Hotel. Still great-looking at 59, the never-married performer's recent credits include the contemporary family action adventure movie "Call of the Wild 3D," an independent film completed in November of last year, starring Christopher Lloyd and juvenile actress Ariel Gade as a little girl who nurses an injured wolf cub back to health. Timothy Bottoms, Veronica Cartwright and Jaleel White are also in the cast.
DEAR STACY: Is there going to be a "Kennedy Center Honors" DVD available for this year's program? I would love a copy of the Barbra Streisand tribute. -- James M., Chattanooga, Tenn.
DEAR JAMES: No, those annual events are one-offs, so if you want to replay them, you'd better record them yourself. Producer George Stevens Jr. has told me that as much as he'd dearly love to put out a collection of the memorable shows, clearing all the rights to the music and performances is an impossible obstacle.
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