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1 WMs News To ask a question, e-mail whosnewsusaweekerKlxom or dick on "Contact Columnists" at our Web site. BY LORRIE LYNCH Q. How did I ever miss Neal McDonoogh before NBCs Boomtowrii He's so attractive. D. Bonacum, Phoenix As McDonough, 37, teEs it, Td been doing tons of stuff; most of it small stuff no one saw." Then, just when he was thinking of throwing in the towel, Steven Spielberg called with Band of Brothers.

That project changed McDonough's life in more ways than one. He met fiancee Ruv6 Robertson (with him, left) the first night he was in London for filming. "She's 6-f oot-3, and I used the lamest pickup line of all time: 'Gee, you're talL' McDonough probably will use his coming hiatus to make a movie with Boomtoum exec producer Jon Avnet But there's another matter to take care a wed-ding. He and Robertson are thinking Ireland in September Rocker Ann Wilson, who led Heart to 30 million in record sales, is ready for her dose-up. Sixty-some pounds lighter than she was a year ago, Wilson, 52, no longer fears making the videos necessary to sell new albums like the one she, sister Nancy and the rest of the band are working on right now.

To be released this summer, it's Heart's first new record in more than a decade. Wilson decided that before she went to work on an album, she had to deal with her morbid obesity. 'I tried every diet that ever alt came out," she tells me. 1 had given up, but then I looked at my kids ages 5 and 121 and thought, 1 cant give up. I have to be here for decision led A.

What's the real reason my favorite actress, Kim Delaney, left CBS' hit CSfc Miami after just 1 0 episodes? Marjuxe Iooss, Bmmd, To some, her departure was as shocking as the gruesome demise of various her to lap-band surgery, a laparoscopic procedure that's less invasive than stomach stapling; it shrinks the stomach so one feels full on less food. If not without risks, but Wilson says, the health risks of obesity were greater. Miami victims. Delaney, 41, wont talk, but tabloids were quick to claim co-star David Caruso was jealous. Truth is, her character just didn't geL Miami already was in production when Delaney was added, but the investigator she played, a woman haunted by her husband's death, was too dour hear Harrison Ford and Calista Flockhart are about to i married.

True? Jake Symcox. Coventry. England even for a show about corpses. All told, 2002 was no banner year for Delaney. She was arrested for drunken driving, and then Pk Uly, her law drama, 1 1 rK At press time, marriage wasn't even a possibility; Ford's divorce from screenwriter Melissa Mathison, with whom he has two children, wasn't finaL But the got the ABC ax.

She's reading scripts and hoping for a better 2003. Why did longtime Republican strategist 60-year-old actor's 14-month relationship withg Flockhart, 22 years his junior, is very tight The llllf1 Mary Matalin leave her Mara 4 couple celebrated their first anniversary together at the Golden Globes (they met at I the award ceremony in 2002), but they're so press-shy they slipped in a back door to avoid paparazzi on the red carpet. i position as a dose adviser to Vice President Dick Cheney? Joan Stevens, Kartu Ctf Pa. Like many mothers with demanding jobs, Tata1in wasn't seeing enough of her kids, Matty, 7, and Emma, A. bTom Hanks the voice behind i Geoffrey the Giraffe in the Toys Us commercials? He sure laughs like it Paul and Joanne Tscherse, Euclid.

Ohio 1 3.16.03 Lauren Graham 36 Jerry Lewis 77 3.17.03 Rob Lowe 39 3.18.03 Queen Latifah 33 Vanessa Williams 40 3.19.03 Bruce Willis 48 Glenn Close 56 3.20.03 Holly Hunter 45 Spike Lee 46 3.21.03 Matthew Broderick 41 RosieOTJonneR 41 3.22.03 Reese Witherspoon 27 William Shatner 72 No, but it's Tom's younger brother, Jim, 41. Toys Us tells us its headquarters is flooded 4 "It's just that I want to have more of them," she tells us. 1 don't like not combing their hair in the morning. I dont like not knowing they've grown out of their clothes." After two years as the VPs adviser, the Washington player, 49, now cooks dinner, helps with homework and gets the girls to activities like ballet Shell still counsel Cheney unofficially, but "it all has to fit in with the kids." No more of the other way around. With FRAPPA Srorr.

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