Ask American Profile 7/1/2007

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Florida native Daniel Lee Martin gave up a career in marketing—he owned his own advertising agency—to pursue his dream of becoming a country singer. Now the host of Backstage & Backroads with Daniel Lee Martin on The Sportsman Channel, he invites his celebrity friends along for a unique combination of huntin’, fishin’ and singin’. Martin promoted the release of his debut album in 2004 with some 300 appearances at Wal-Mart stores across the nation, and his latest CD, On My Way to You, has just been released.

Q Whatever became of the twin girls in the movie The Shining?
—Terry Olney, Lincoln, Neb.

Lisa and Louise Burns were 12 when they appeared in the 1980 movie adaptation of Stephen King’s best-selling novel about a haunted hotel. Cast as a pair of identically dressed British tykes—who happened to be dead—their onscreen time was brief, and they only had one haunting line (“Come play with us, Danny . . . forever and ever and ever.”) But their scene has an enduring creepiness that has lasted for nearly three decades. They never made another movie and grew up outside the spotlight in their hometown of London, where Lisa earned a college degree in literature and Louise works as a microbiologist.

Q Where was Little House on the Prairie filmed?
—Elaine Barton, Peach Bottom, Pa.

The beloved 1974-1983 TV series was set in frontier Minnesota, but was shot entirely in California, primarily in the Simi Valley. The production used various “rugged” locations also seen as backdrops in dozens of other TV shows and movies, including Bonanza, Rawhide, Death Valley Days, Bat Masterson, Gunsmoke, Back to the Future, Batman, Dallas and The Dukes of Hazzard.

Q Why did Richard Dean Anderson leave Stargate SG-1?
—Karli Walker, Taft, Calif.

The popular Sci-Fi network series was filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia, and Los Angeles resident Anderson, 57, didn’t like working so far from home. He left the show to spend more time with his 8-year-old daughter, Wylie Quinn Annarose. Anderson returned for a couple of guest appearances for the final season, the second half of which began airing in April.

Q I really liked Star Jones on The View. What is she doing now?
—Alice Stark, Pellston, Mich.

A slimmed-down Star Jones Reynolds, 45, is sporting a new hairdo, wearing glasses and preparing to return to television in August with her own talk show on Court TV. A former lawyer herself, she began her career on the network in 1991 as a legal commentator. Her duties on The View ended in a blowup; told her contract wasn’t being renewed, she beat host Barbara Walters to the punch in making the announcement and was—as they say in show business—promptly shown the door.

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