Ask American Profile 8/26/2007

Q What is Treat Williams doing now that the TV series Everwood has been canceled?
—Carrie Temple, Fulton, Miss.

Williams, 55, who played Dr. Andrew Brown on Everwood, has worked nonstop since the series ended last year. He guest-starred on several episodes of ABC’s Brothers & Sisters as a love interest for Sally Field’s character. This summer, he’s put his white coat back on for TNT’s new series Heartland, on which he plays a pioneering organ-transplant surgeon who takes risks that other doctors won’t in order to save the lives of his patients.

Q I heard that there is going to be a series based on the GEICO cavemen commercials. Will it feature the actors from the commercials? And is that Rocky actress Talia Shire in the “therapist” spot?
—Arnold Craig, Valencia, Calif.

ABC-TV bought the rights from GEICO to create a half-hour comedy series featuring the cavemen that will premiere this fall. The commercials star Jeff Daniel Phillips, who won a film-festival award for directing and starring in the 2003 thriller Hide, and Ben Weber, who played Skipper Johnson on Sex and the City and Vic Faison in The West Wing, as the cavemen. But for the series, Bill English, Dash Mihok and Nick Kroll will portray the modern-day Cro-Magnons. And, yes, that is indeed actress Talia Shire as the psychiatrist in the commercial set in a therapist’s office.

Q What can you tell me about the person behind the name I’ve seen on so many different CDs and albums throughout the years: producer Phil Ramone?
—Mark Bennett, Elk City, Okla.

Ramone, 66, is the heralded super-producer behind a 40-year string of hits by a who’s who of artists, including Aretha Franklin, B.B. King, Sting, Elton John, Rod Stewart, Paul Simon, Madonna, Bruce Springsteen, James Taylor, Bob Dylan, Sheryl Crow and Tony Bennett. He was born in Cape Town, South Africa, but as a child came to New York, where he became a prodigy on violin, learned guitar and delved into the technical side of making music. His new memoir, Making Records: The Scenes Behind the Music, is a ringside seat to the makings of contemporary musical history.

Q Is the actress who played Toby Keith’s daughter in the movie Broken Bridges related to country singer Miranda Lambert? They sure look a lot alike.
—M. Davis, Linton, Ind.

They’re not related, but they’re both comfortable around a guitar. In May, Lambert, 23, went home with a trophy from the Academy of Country Music as the year’s top newcomer. Actress-singer Lindsey Haun, 22, who almost stole the show away from superstar headliner Toby Keith in Broken Bridges, is working on her debut CD. Both Lambert and Haun are performing this summer and fall with Keith on his “Big Dog Daddy” tour.

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