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K.T. Oslin, Adam LaVorgna, Survivor

For years we enjoyed country singer K.T. Oslin. But for the last few years, she has not released any songs. Can you tell us what she is doing now?
—Ray G., Pennsylvania

Since releasing the critically acclaimed Live Close By, Visit Often last year, co-produced with Raul Malo, Oslin has taken some time off, working in her Nashville, Tenn., garden and for charitable causes. Raised in Houston, she first performed as a folk singer with Guy Clark, later moved to New York and worked as a chorus girl in musicals. Ad jingle assignments led to appearances in television commercials, but it was songwriting that led her to Nashville. Oslin wrote for Dottie West, The Judds, and others—making it big herself on RCA Records in 1987. The next year, she became the first female to win the Country Music Association’s Song of the Year for ’80s Ladies, which also earned her Female Vocalist of the Year and the first of three Grammy Awards. She had a number of top 10 hits in the ’80s and ’90s and appeared in several television shows and movies, such as Evening Shade and The Thing Called Love. Triple-bypass heart surgery sidetracked Oslin in 1995, but she is doing well these days. She appeared on Oprah in June, along with Natalie Cole and Bonnie Raitt, in a segment celebrating “late-blooming” female artists.

I know I’ve seen Adam LaVorgna, who plays Robbie Palmer on 7th Heaven, before. Has he previously starred in anything?
—Jolene H., Illinois

Chances are you’ve seen Adam LaVorgna before. He co-starred in the critically acclaimed but little watched CBS series Brooklyn Bridge in the early ’90s, winning the Youth in Film Award for his work. The 21-year-old has been working steadily since he was 3, first appearing on the soap opera As the World Turns. His other credits include the miniseries Sinatra and Degree of Guilt. His movies include Blast, Milk Money, and I’ll Be Home for Christmas. The Connecticut native is the youngest of three children and makes his home in Los Angeles. He likes to play basketball in his spare time.

On the show Survivor, does everyone win money or just the runner-up and winner?
—Mary Jane H., Tennessee

Everyone who participates in the show goes home with some cash. The first contestant to get kicked off receives approximately $2,500, and the amount climbs to $100,000 for the runner-up. But if you break the rules, you go home with nothing. Survivors can’t conspire to share the million-dollar top prize, for example. They can’t break the law—neither U.S. law nor the law of the land where the game is set. They can’t damage the environment where they play. They can’t harm the other players, steal food, enter the production area—where the crew stays while filming the game—and they can’t miss a tribal council. The fourth round of Survivor was filmed in Thailand and is airing on CBS.

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