You have questions. I have some answers.
Q: I was just wondering if there will be a season 2 for the TV show "Star"? The season finale had a lot of unanswered things going on.
A: Fox has ordered a second season of the drama. It is set for Wednesday nights following "Empire."
Q: I was so saddened to hear about the temporary shutdown of "The Last Ship," my favorite summer series, due to Eric Dane's depression. Please let him know that this fan is holding him in my thoughts and prayers.
A: The TNT drama did indeed stop production for several weeks because of Dane's struggles with depression. But you will get a chance to see recent work by the former "Grey's Anatomy" star when "The Last Ship" begins its fourth season on Aug. 20. According to Variety, the fourth season is all done, and the fifth � due in the summer of 2018 � was being made when Dane asked for a break.
Q: I am wondering if you could tell me what is going on with Niall Horan's "This Town" CD. I have looked on Amazon (they have only a piano version), at record stores, Walmart, Target and can find nothing. I would really like to purchase this CD.
A: The heartthrob from One Direction has issued two single songs, "This Town" and "Slow Hands," but only for streaming and download. Malcolm X Abram, pop music writer for the Akron Beacon Journal, says there is no CD yet "because it's 2017 ... and nobody makes CD singles anymore. That's what iTunes is for." A CD release will apparently have to wait until Horan puts together a full album.
Q: Some years back there was a TV show where this man picked a bride from a group of women and married her on the show. It didn't work out and the marriage was annulled. What happened to this couple?
A: While marriage and disappointment have been part of many reality shows, I think you are remembering "Who Wants To Marry a Multi-Millionaire," a Fox special in which comedian (and presumably rich guy) Rick Rockwell chose emergency-room nurse Darva Conger as his wife from a group of contestants without having met; they then married on the special in 2000.
But the marriage collapsed almost immediately, with Conger telling Diane Sawyer that Rockwell was "just not a person that I would ordinarily have even a friendly relationship with." Fox, meanwhile, reeled when news broke that a former girlfriend had had a restraining order against him. Both made appearances on various talk shows, and Conger posed for Playboy. Rockwell also wrote a book about his experiences, "What Was I Thinking? The Truth About Reality TV and Modern Media." I have not found much about either in recent years; Conger did later marry and have a son, although the marriage ended in divorce. As for her brief burst of fame, she told People magazine in 2010 that "it was fun at the time. I wasn't working and it was ridiculously easy money for what seemed like very little."
Q: I have been waiting for a movie of the book "The Second Son" but it never came. Did it ever get made? I also never found another book by the author, Charles Sailor. What happened?
A: The 1979 bestseller about a possible messiah was sold to the movies � and remains available in print and as an e-book. In April, Sailor said on a Beautiful Writers podcast with Linda Sivertsen that Sylvester Stallone was interested in starring in a "Second Son" movie in his heyday (but Sailor thought he was wrong for the part) and David Lean had wanted to direct a movie version (but the studio nixed that over concerns about Lean's health). Financial complications in the rights to the film have been an even bigger, long-term problem in getting the movie made, Sailor said on the podcast; still, he said, there has been some recent movement on a movie and possibly a series. And Sailor, who is also an actor and screenwriter, did write a second novel, "The Man Who Rode the Tiger," which is in paperback and an e-book.
