Ask American Profile 10/19/2008

Deal or No Deal, Kristen Bell, Hector Elizondo

Q On Deal or No Deal, do all the briefcase girls wear the same size dress and shoes so they can be mass-produced? Or is each dress custom-made for the model?
—Jeanne Maersch, Cecil, Wis.

The costume designer for the hit TV game show shared the following information: The briefcase models wear dress sizes ranging from 2 to 6 and their shoe sizes vary from 51/2 to 10. While the outfits are not custom-made, they are all customized and fine-tuned for each model over the course of three fittings.

Q I am a big fan of Kristen Bell. I followed her from Veronica Mars to Heroes and I want to know if she will be back next season.
—Randy M. Boyer, Starkville, Miss.

As you probably know by now, Bell’s character, the sultry Elle Bishop, is back this fall in the third season of NBC’s Heroes. The 27-year-old actress recently starred as well in the movie Forgetting Sarah Marshall, and you can hear her every week as the narrator on the CW network’s hit series Gossip Girl. Before heading back to Heroes, the Detroit native trekked to Italy to film the comedy When in Rome, in which she plays a romantically unlucky American real estate agent who finds herself overwhelmed with suitors after she tosses a coin into the ancient city’s legendary “fountain of love.”

Q I’ve seen actor Hector Elizondo in dozens of TV shows and movies. What can you tell us about him?
—Sybil Sanderson, Arlington, Texas

Few inactive periods exist in the long and varied acting career of Elizondo, 71, who currently appears as a psychiatrist on the NBC series Monk. His resume includes more than 125 TV shows and movies, including Pretty Woman, Runaway Bride and The Princess Diaries. Off camera, the New York-born actor is a passionate spokesman for awareness of Alzheimer’s disease, which claimed his mother and her four sisters. “I got involved to help caregivers take better care of themselves by being informed,” he says. He’s been married for nearly 40 years to Carolee Campbell, an actress who appeared in the 1960s daytime drama The Doctors.

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