Ask American Profile November 12, 2006

Ask American Profile November 12, 2006

What has Catherine Bach been doing since The Dukes of Hazzard TV show?
—Rebecca Musick, Raven, Va.

Since playing Daisy Duke in the 1980s series, Bach, 52, has remained out of the spotlight. She spent most of the ’90s raising her two young daughters, and in 1998, she and her husband, Peter Lopez, became founding members of C.O.A.C.H. For Kids, which provides free medical services via mobile clinics for children and their families in low-income areas of Los Angeles County. Bach made many of the outfits she wore on The Dukes of Hazzard, including the cut-off short-shorts that came to be referred to as “Daisy Dukes” in reference to her character’s signature look.

Q I always enjoyed Mr. T in The A Team. What’s he up to these days?
—B. Hopwood, Artesia, N.M.

Mr. T, 54, is back on TV this fall as a self-help guru, traveling the country to dispense his brand of tough love to those in need on the new TV Land series I Pity the Fool, which premiered in October. “I inspire, motivate and get people started,” says the newly slimmed-down star, who doesn’t have a doctorate but claims a “street degree” in helping the less fortunate.

Q There was a TV movie about John Denver starring Gerald McRaney as his father. But who played John?
—Harold Morris, Van Buren, Ark.

Chad Lowe, the younger brother of actor Rob Lowe, played the folk/pop singer in Take Me Home: The John Denver Story, which aired in 2000. Denver, whose hit songs included “Take Me Home, Country Roads,” “Rocky Mountain High” and “Thank God I’m a Country Boy,” died in 1997 when the airplane he was piloting crashed off the coast of California.

Q Can you please tell me the whereabouts of the actor who played the boy in Shane?
—Mary Lou Wright, Olney, Ill.

Brandon De Wilde, the actor who memorably portrayed young Joey in the 1953 movie Shane, received an Oscar nomination for that role and went on to star in his own short-lived TV series, Jamie, later that year. De Wilde, who also appeared in the films All Fall Down and Hud, was in Denver on the way to perform in the play Butterflies are Free when he was killed in a car accident in 1972 at the age of 30.

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