Ask American Profile 2/17/2008

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“These days, I am enjoying sitting on my duff, just relaxing,” says Robert Guillaume, 80. His retirement is well earned after a career of nearly 100 movie, television and stage parts. Most recently, the St. Louis native taped a video introduction for the season-one DVD release of Benson, the hit TV comedy that spun off the ABC-TV primetime series Soap and aired from 1979 to 1986.

Q Was Ronn Moss of The Bold and The Beautiful ever a member of a soft rock band called Player? I’m sure it was him I saw in a Time-Life paid-programming ad.
—Vanessa Holiday, Richmond, Va.

Moss, 55, who has portrayed fashion magnate Ridge Forrester on the daytime TV drama The Bold and The Beautiful since 1987, was a founding member of the band Player, which had hit singles in the late ’70s with “Baby Come Back” and “This Time I’m In It for Love.” He reteamed with another of the band’s original members, Peter Beckett, in 2006 to relaunch Player and tour select U.S. cities.

Q I loved Jessica Lange as Patsy Cline in Sweet Dreams. Was that her first role?
—Pam Wade, Titusville, Fla.

No, Lange had been active onscreen for almost a decade when Sweet Dreams was released in 1985. A native of Cloquet, Minn., she made her debut as the female lead in King Kong (1978), and received critical raves in Tootsie, Frances (both 1982) and Country (1984), in which she played the wife of a struggling farmer. Her new film, Bonneville, set for release Feb. 29, tells the story of three friends who make a life-changing trip in the 1966 convertible of the title. Lange, 58, has two grown children with her longtime companion, writer-actor Sam Shepard, plus another daughter from a previous relationship with dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov.

Q Is my favorite member of The Grand Ole Opry, Hank Locklin, still active?
—Harold Shamblin, Shade, Ohio

Locklin recently released his 65th album, By the Grace of God, a collection of gospel songs, and was inducted into the Florida Artists Hall of Fame, taking a spot alongside past honorees Jimmy Buffett, Ray Charles and Ernest Hemingway. At 90, he’s the oldest living member of the Grand Ole Opry, which he joined 47 years ago after his hit single “Please Help Me, I’m Falling,” spent a remarkable 14 weeks at No. 1 on the charts.

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