Q&A

Q: Did the Monty Python guys do any other TV shows before "Flying Circus"?

They all worked together on a couple of different shows before forming the Monty Python troupe. However, interestingly enough, though their faces are all quite famous now, they were writers first, and actors only later. The most notable one is "The Frost Report," a short-lived comedy series hosted by already-famous TV personality ...

Q: What are the parents from "Everybody Loves Raymond" up to now?

The answer to that is half sad and half rather nice.The sad half is that Peter Boyle, who played Ray's uproariously cantankerous dad Frank, died in 2006, just a year after "Everybody Loves Raymond" signed off. Boyle was a highly respected stage-and-screen man who, prior to "Raymond," appeared in such classic fare as the ...

On the TV show "The Closer," Det. Sanchez (Raymond Cruz) wears a wedding band on his left hand. However, I thought his character was single. His wife is never mentioned, and he acts like quite the ladies' man.

It certainly isn't mentioned often. It wasn't even revealed until the finale of the show's fourth season, but in fact Det. Julio Sanchez is a widower. The brusque, frequently belligerent and occasionally chauvinistic detective lets his softer side show in the episode, in which Brenda (the show's main character, played by Kyra Sedgwick) gets...