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Keri Russell, Sawyer Brown, Roger Hazard, Fabian

What can you tell me about Keri Russell?
—Connie Sullivan, Twain Harte, Calif.

Singer, dancer and actress Keri Russell was born in Mesa, Ariz., in 1976 and started her career on TV’s The Mickey Mouse Club in 1991. She played Felicity Porter in the WB network’s Felicity and won a Golden Globe award for the role in 1999. She starred with Mel Gibson in the movie We Were Soldiers and made her Broadway debut in Fat Pig with Andrew McCarthy and Jeremy Piven in 2004. She lives in New York City, is single and can be seen in the upcoming movie Mission Impossible 3, scheduled for release in May.

I loved the country group Sawyer Brown in the 1990s. What are they doing today?
—Shelly Churchill, Ellinwood, Kan.

The band launched by the TV show Star Search is in its 25th year playing music—and remarkably, with only two personnel changes. Sawyer Brown’s 20th album, Mission Temple Fireworks Stand, was released in 2005. "We’re still touring 12 months out of the year," says the band’s drummer, Joe Smyth. "It’s interesting to go from being the new kids on the block to the elder statesmen." He adds, "It means more to us today to go out and play for an appreciative audience than it did 20 years ago."

Please tell me about Roger Hazard on Sell This House. Is he married to his co-star Tanya Memme?
—Paula Bauer, Carlsbad, N.M.

Hazard was born in Freeport, Texas, and raised in Houston. After graduating from Texas A&M University, he owned and operated a plant leasing and landscaping business. "In the 1990s I began purchasing, renovating and ‘flipping’ homes in Atlanta, Ga.," he recalls. "In the mid ‘90s, I moved to New York City, and by combining landscape design, home renovation and interior design, was able to travel the country. My reputation eventually led to my career in television." Hazard hosts the A&E network’s Sell This House and Move This House with Memme, but they’re not a real-life couple. He’s single with no kids and lives in Seattle.

What is my favorite entertainer, Fabian, doing now?
—Andy Boneff, Angola, Ind.

Beginning in April, 62-year-old Fabian will host and perform in a show called The Original Stars of American Bandstand, one week a month at the new Dick Clark’s American Bandstand Theater in Branson, Mo., along with Bobby Vee, the Chiffons, Brian Hyland and Chris Montez. He also tours with Frankie Avalon and Bobby Rydell, which he has been doing off and on for the last 20 years. Fabian lives on 20 acres in southwestern Pennsylvania with his wife of seven years, Andrea, and fishes in the pond on their estate every chance he gets.

 

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