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Tell me about the actress who plays Brooke Logan Forrester on The Bold and the Beautiful.
—Ruth G., Texas

Katherine Kelly Lang is the ultimate “California girl”—at least for the Beach Boys—and has appeared as such in several of the group’s music videos. Her life resembles that image. Lang, who turns 41 July 25, graduated from Beverly Hills High School and got into acting by chance. On the set of Skate Town USA, the producers saw her and cast her as the lead’s girlfriend. She got an agent and soon was appearing on shows such as Happy Days, Masquerade, and Magnum P.I. Lang first broke into daytime television as Gretchen on The Young and the Restless. The actress is an athlete who loves the outdoors. She enjoys playing tennis, wind surfing, mountain biking, horseback riding, and competes in 25- and 50-mile cross-country endurance races. In 1996, she placed third in the International Desert Marathon. She competes throughout Southern California in races sponsored by the American Federation of Endurance Racing. Acting and athletics are in her genes. Her father is Keith Wegeman, an Olympic long-jump skier who went on to play television’s Jolly Green Giant. Her mother, Judith Lang, is also an actress. Lang lives in California with her husband and three children.

What is Bob Saget, the former host of America’s Funniest Home Videos, doing now? We think he’s a funny and entertaining performer.
—Marian W., California

You can find Bob Saget every week on The WB’s Raising Dad, where he plays a widowed high school English teacher raising two daughters. The weekly series has the same gentle, family-friendly humor as his past hit series, Full House, which ran for eight years. The 46-year-old comic actor was born in Philadelphia and was a creative child who played guitar, wrote songs, made films, and wrote humorous sketches to amuse his friends. It was the perfect lead-in to pursue a career as a standup comic after graduating from Temple University. He moved to California and was the winning bachelor when he appeared on The Dating Game in 1979. He soon found steady work on television and in clubs. In 1987, he landed the dad role in Full House. Two years later, he took on hosting duties of America’s Funniest Home Videos. His interest in filmmaking remained constant through his career. He directed and produced the television movie, For Hope, based on the life of his sister, Gay, who died from scleroderma, an immune system disease, in 1994. His other directorial projects include the Norm McDonald movie Dirty Work and Jitters for Lifetime Television.

What’s the name of the lead singer of The Mavericks? I’d like to know a little bit about him. How did the group start singing together?
—Elizabeth P., Nebraska

Raul Malo, the lead singer and songwriter for The Mavericks, was born in Miami, Fla., of Cuban descent. Miami isn’t a hotbed of country music, but Malo’s parents had records by Johnny Cash, Patsy Cline, and Roy Orbison. The music appealed to Malo, who found a fellow rockabilly fan in Robert Reynolds, whose best friend was Paul Deakin. The three of them formed a band and soon began writing their own songs, which held the influence of those older artists without copying them outright. They added a guitarist, called themselves the Mavericks, and eventually made their way to Nashville, Tenn. They won CMA Awards in 1995 and 1996 and released their last album, Trampoline, in 1998. The band is not working together right now, and Malo went on to explore other musical genres. Last year, he appeared on Los Super Seven’s album, Canto. Malo has released his own solo album, Today, which covers all types of music, while maintaining a definite Latin tone. Malo and his wife, Betty, live in Nashville with their children.

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