Ponch And Jon Roll Back Into TV Land
For all those “CHiPs” fans wondering how Ponch and Jon would have adapted in the ‘90s, you’re in luck - they’re coming back just before the millennium.
Larry Wilcox and Erik Estrada have just finished work on “CHiPs ‘99,” a cable television movie that has the pair once again playing California Highway Patrol officers Jon Baker and “Ponch” Poncherella. The original series ran from 1977 to 1982.
Even though he hasn’t donned his “CHiPs” uniform in 16 years, Wilcox says he still gets plenty of attention.
“I got off the plane in Brazil once and there were 40,000 people waiting for me,” Wilcox said. “I went to a graduation of a friend’s son from Annapolis and it was like I was a VIP.”
Loose talk
Former au pair Louise Woodward is being deluged by suitors, receiving about 50 marriage proposals along with cards, flowers and candy since her return to England. “I tend to get a lot of gifts from them: Valentine things like flowers and chocolates. You always get people who see a picture or your face on TV and fall in love with it. They tend to keep my photograph by their bed.”
Will he manage a wedding before his funeral?
Hugh Grant turns 38 today.
The spicy side of morning sickness
Scary Spice says being pregnant has made her live up to her nickname. Melanie Brown, who is expecting along with group mate Posh Spice (Victoria Adams), says both battled to remain cheerful when morning sickness hit. “We both turned into dragons, it was quite funny,” she told BBC radio in her first comments about her pregnancy. “It is nice having a close friend going through the same things you are.”
Spicing up teen pregnancy
The Spice Girls, who gave Girl Power to a generation of teens, may be unwittingly encouraging teen pregnancy, a British educator says. Judith Mullen, president of the Secondary Heads Association, said that the pregnancies of Posh Spice Victoria Adams and Scary Spice Melanie Brown could trigger “a generation of Spice babies born to teenage mothers.” But Mullen stressed she is not criticizing the two Spice Girls, noting that they are in their 20s and “in loving, caring relationships.”
Don’t be silly, she’d never do that
Oprah Winfrey told the Chicago Sun-Times that the BBC’s report on her appearing nude in “Beloved” was wrong. “Anybody who knows me and what I stand for realizes how preposterous is such a report,” she said.
She’s going home again
The grind of doing a sitcom for 10 years didn’t fatigue Faith Ford. The “Murphy Brown” co-star, who played perky newswoman Corkie Sherwood until the show’s demise last season, is back working the same long sitcom hours on her own show, “Maggie Winters.” “You’d think I was an eager beaver,” Ford says in the Sept. 11 Entertainment Weekly. “But actually I’m a creature of habit. I found a medium I love, and I didn’t want to leave it behind.” Ford plays a woman returning home to live with her mother after leaving an unfaithful husband.