Mitzi Kapture Is Back After Family Time Off
Q: I'm interested in knowing about Mitzi Kapture of the TV show "Silk Stalkings." I saw Mitzi in a TV movie ("Perfect Crime") last summer but have never seen her in anything else. Is she still acting?
A: After five seasons of playing homicide detective Rita Lee Lance on USA's steamy "Silk Stalkings," Kapture left the show in 1996 to have a baby. After taking some family time, she returned to work last year in "Perfect Crime." Now her career is back in full swing. She just starred in the USA original movie "His Bodyguard" and, this fall, she's joining David Hasselhoff and the "Baywatch" cast as Alex Ryker. Kapture is married to singer/songwriter Bradley Kapture. Their daughter, Madison, is 2.
Q: I just love Chuck Norris. Has "Walker, Texas Ranger" been renewed?
A: The "Walker" cast and crew are in Utah this month working on the new season of the CBS show. They opted to get out of Dallas during August to escape the blistering 100-plus temperatures.
Q: After watching WCW Wrestling on TV, I would like to know the ages of Macho Man Randy Savage and Hulk Hogan.
A: According to their official biographies, NWO (New World Order) wrestling star Randy Savage is 45. Hulk Hogan turns 45 on Aug. 11.
Q: What happened to Jamie's sister Lisa on "Mad About You"?
A: Anne Ramsay, who left "Mad About You" after the 1997 season, co-starred with Danny Aiello in CBS' "Dellaventura" last season. The show was canceled.
Q: I noticed that one of the late River Phoenix's sisters had a small part as a paramedic on "ER." Which sister was it - Rain, Liberty or Summer?
A: Summer, the youngest of the acting Phoenix family, appeared in the 1997 "ER" episode "Ambush." Currently she's on the big screen in "Can't Hardly Wait." The Phoenix siblings, first names courtesy of their flower child-era parents, have been acting since they were children. River co-starred in the 1982 TV series version of "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers" with Richard Dean Anderson ("MacGyver") and Peter Horton ("thirtysomething"). Joaquin, then known as Leaf, starred in Earl ("The Waltons") Hamner's orphan drama "Morningstar/Eveningstar" in 1986.
Q: My friend and I have a bet on who played Gidget in the '80s sitcom where Gidget and Moondoggie are married and their niece (Sydney Penny) lives with them. Did Sally Field continue in the role of Gidget?
A: No way. By the time "The New Gidget" hit the airwaves in 1986, Sally Field had two Oscars ("Norma Rae," "Places in the Heart") to her name and was forever rid of the "Gidget" role she inherited from Sandra Dee in the 1965 TV series. The grown-up Gidget was played by Caryn Richman, who later starred in "The Bradys" as Greg's wife. She's currently pitching home exercise equipment in an infomercial. Field's latest TV role was as an astronaut's wife in Tom Hanks' multi-Emmy nominated miniseries "From the Earth to the Moon."