Ask American Profile 1/14/2007

Ask American Profile 1/14/2007

Q I’m a big fan of The District with Craig T. Nelson. Each episode ends with a notation: “For Jack Maple, who lived it.” Who was he?
—Maxine McNeese, Madison, Ind.

Maple, a crusading, crime-busting New York City deputy police commissioner, was the inspiration behind Nelson’s character on The District. He also was co-creator of the show and technical adviser until his death in 2001 of colon cancer.

Q I’d like to know more about the family of Pat Sajak from Wheel of Fortune. —Doris Bermingham, Gordon, Neb.

The Wheel of Fortune host and his wife of 16 years, Lesly, have two children. “My daughter, Maggie, is 11 and my son, Patrick, is 15,” Sajak says. “When they were little, they didn’t quite know that I even worked because I would say, ‘I’m going taping,’ and they probably thought I worked at the Scotch Company or something. Now they know, but we don’t sit around watching the show on a regular basis, because they’re doing their homework and things people do in their real life.”

Q I have been a fan of Clint Walker for years. He was in the TV series Cheyenne and made many movies. I heard someone was going to bring back many of his movies in a DVD collection. Can you give me any information?
—Al Dameron, Tehachapi, Calif.

Break out the popcorn and get ready for a Clint Walker marathon. While his many movies haven’t been released as a collection (the rights to them are owned by a variety of studios, making that difficult), several are available separately on DVD, including The Dirty Dozen, The White Buffalo, Deadly Harvest, Baker’s Hawk, More Dead Than Alive and Pancho Villa. Additionally, Warner Home Video released the first season of Cheyenne in 2005.

Q Whatever happened to the beautiful and talented Sheena Easton?
—R. Lane, Burlington, N.C.

The Scotland-born singer of the hits “Morning Train” and “For Your Eyes Only” still performs, but scaled back her schedule to raise her two adopted children, now 10 and 12. “When I decided to be a mom, I got off the make-a-record, go-on-tour schedule,” says Easton, who lives in Las Vegas and now hits the road for one or two weekends a month. Married and divorced four times, she’s “happily single” but notes “I wouldn’t be upset if George Clooney happened to get a flat tire in front of my house and needed to come in and make a phone call.”

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