Ask American Profile 3/25/2007

Q Please tell me all you can about David Caruso.
—M. Jones, Ardmore, Okla.

The New York native became known in the series NYPD Blue but quit the hit TV show in 1994 to make his mark in movies—which didn’t work out as well as he’d hoped. In 2002, another series, CSI: Miami, put him back in the spotlight. “For somebody who fell to the place that I fell in terms of unemployment and a damaged reputation, the fact that this town was willing to give me another chance is incredible,” he says of Hollywood. Married and divorced three times, Caruso resides in Miami and Los Angeles.

Q What is actress Susan Blakely doing now? Where does she live?
—Agnes Brunetti, Shenandoah, La.

A former fashion model turned actress who came to stardom in the 1970s in the movie The Towering Inferno and the TV mini-series Rich Man, Poor Man, Blakely, 54, recently guest-starred on the TV series Cold Case. She appears in a new movie on the independent circuit, Grisly Park, designs her own line of jewelry and lives in Los Angeles.

Q The hosts on What Not to Wear have such great chemistry. Are they romantically connected? —Barbara M., Bowling Green, Ohio
“I get asked if Stacy and I are a couple all the time!” says Clinton Kelly, who co-hosts the popular TLC fashion makeover series with Stacy London. “We’re not romantically involved at all. It’s more like brother and sister. We adore each other but also irritate and pick on each other, too—like siblings in the backseat of a car during a family road trip.”

Q Tell me about the actress who plays Ducky’s mother on NCIS. She is wonderful. I remember her as a movie star. Is her name Nina?
—Betty J. Rector, Santa Fe, Texas

Your memory serves you correctly. The Holland-born actress who plays Victoria Mallard on NCIS is Nina Foch, who has been working in Hollywood since 1943. One of her earliest roles was one of the victims in Return of the Vampire; one of her best known was opposite Gene Kelly in An American in Paris. Now 82, Foch has continued to work steadily through the years with guest appearances on popular TV shows such as Dharma & Greg, L.A. Law, Hunter and Murder, She Wrote.

Q This one might be a bit tough. There used to be a show on TV called It’s a Man’s World starring four men, and one of them was Ted Bessell from That Girl. Who were the others?
—Melody Kinder, Spokane, Wash.

It’s a Man’s World was a short-lived 1962 TV series that starred a pre-That Girl Ted Bessell, plus Randy Boone (who would star in the 1967 series Cimarron Strip), Michael Burns (who would go on to play Barnaby West on Wagon Train) and Glenn Corbett (later Paul Morgan on Dallas).

Q Is Helen Reddy still performing?
—Mary Sutton, Alliance, Neb.

Reddy, 65, whose hit single “I Am Woman” became a pop anthem for the 1970s “women’s lib” movement, retired from performing in 2002. “Fans came from 13 different states for my final show in Canada,” says Reddy, who felt like it was finally time to hang up her singing career after having been in the spotlight since childhood. She now resides in her homeland of Australia, where she works as a licensed hypnotherapist.

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