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Is Lindsay Lohan really singing in the new movie A Prairie Home Companion, or is she lip-synching, like actors often do?
—H. Hailey, Burlington, Iowa

She's really singing, as are all the cast members in the movie, a fictional comedy-drama built around the long-running radio show. Her co-stars—and fellow singers—include Lily Tomlin, Meryl Streep and Woody Harrelson. Lohan, whose other movies include Freaky Friday, Herbie Fully Loaded and Mean Girls, actually has been singing since she was a tot and has released four CDs, including last year's A Little More Personal (Raw).

Whatever happened to George Peppard?
—Carolyn Shult, Sunbury, Pa.

Actor George Peppard, who appeared in dozens of movies and television shows, died of pneumonia two months after his last TV appearance, in an episode of Matlock, in 1994. He was 65.

What's become of illusionist-magician David Copperfield? He just seems to have . . . disappeared!
—A.D. Clark, Sioux Falls, S.D.

The illusionist keeps busy touring more than 300 days a year. He recently put his hocus-pocus to practical use by foiling a would-be robber in West Palm Beach, Fla., making his wallet, cell phone and passport "disappear" rather than handing them over at gunpoint. Copperfield's Project Magic is a rehabilitative program established in 1982 that provides therapy to disabled patients through sleight-of-hand magic.

I like watching The Closer with Kyra Sedgwick. Has she been in any other shows or movies?
—Dennis F., Casper, Wyo.

Sedgwick, who's been nominated for Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild awards for her role as Deputy Chief Brenda Johnson on TNT's hit series The Closer, also appeared in the short-lived 2003 TV series Queens Supreme. She's been in a host of movies, including Phenomenon, Born on the Fourth of July, Secondhand Lions and The Woodsman, in which she starred alongside her husband of 17 years, actor Kevin Bacon.

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