Ask American Profile 11/19/2006

Ask American Profile 11/19/2006

Q What has Noah Wyle been doing since leaving the TV series ER?
—Jon Elliott, Johnstown, Pa.

Since hanging up his TV scrubs, Wyle, 35, has been spending downtime at his ranch in the Santa Ynez Valley, Calif., with wife Tracy and their two children. TNT lured him away to star in The Librarian: Return to King Solomon’s Mines, a new TV movie airing Dec. 3. “There is a scarcity of this type of movie on the air right now—movies that are just fun, old-fashioned popcorn flicks that you’d watch on a Saturday afternoon when you were a kid,” he says.

Q Whatever happened to Charles Nelson Reilly and Brett Somers from The Match Game?
—Donna Coons, Deadwood, S.D.

Somers, 82, just completed work on a Match Game video game, and she occasionally performs a club act in New York. TV’s Game Show Network will air a Match Game special Nov. 26, featuring highlights from the show and guests. But Charles Nelson Reilly, 75, did not participate for health reasons, says a GSN spokesman. Earlier this year, Reilly’s touring autobiographical stage show was made into a movie, The Life of Reilly, now being shown at film festivals.

Q Zain Verjee on CNN’s The Situation Room comes across as friendly and fun to watch. How did she get to CNN and what’s her background?
—Gene H. McIntyre, Keizer, Ore.

While finishing her master’s thesis in Kenya, Nairobi-born Verjee (whose ethnicity is East Indian) volunteered at the local radio station. “I ended up enjoying it so much, I stayed for four years,” says Verjee, 32, who evolved from the radio entertainment beat to news after the 1998 embassy bombings in Nairobi. She came to the United States in 2000 and joined CNN as a correspondent for The Situation Room and other network newscasts. She also has published a children’s book, Live and On The Air, about the experiences of a young girl who moves from rural Kenya to Nairobi to work as a broadcaster. Sound familiar?

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