Guest Author - Sandy Mullins

Here is your chance to catch your favorite stars and celebrities on Biography for the weeks of October 8 - 21. This times offerings are only on the Biography Channel. So pick your favorite celebrity and see if you can learn anything new and exciting about them.

Antonio Banderas
Star of such hits as: Zorro and Desperado, and character voice in Shrek 2. This sultry Spanish actor has gotten the blood flowing of many a woman. He has been called “Today’s Valentino” and “World Sexiest Man”. Interviews with Banderas, his wife actress Melanie Griffith, Rod Steiger and Selma Hayek.

The Barrymores
Gary Sinise host this Biography this famous family of actors and actresses. They touched our lives for more than 150 years. The latest in the line of this great family is Drew Barrymore, star of such hit movies as: E.T. and Charlie’s Angels whose life has been equally turbulent. Take a look at this 2 hours special of this troubled and tortured family The Barrymores.

Patty Duke
A look at the life of a trouble teenage star of the Patty Duke Show and the classic movie, The Miracle Worker, who struggled with mental illness and controlling managers during her childhood. Mother of successful acting sons Sean Astin (Lord of the Rings) and Mackenzie Astin (sons of John Astin, of Addams Family

Buddy Ebsen
The classic actor, who starred in several movies, he danced with a very young Shirley Temple and was going to play the Tin Man in the Wizard of Oz but due to medical problems due to the paint was unable to continue. Most people know him as Jed Clampett from the Beverly Hillbillies and Barnaby Jones.

Melanie Griffith
Actress and beauty, Griffith has had the typical Hollywood life. She took up with Don Johnson at a young age. Won an Oscar nomination for Working Girl, then later married Antonio Banderas. Interviews with Griffith, Antonio Banderas, Paul Newman, Alec Baldwin and James Wood.

Rod Stewart
From his early days playing with Glasgow Celtic a football club, he started performing folk music around Europe. He then went on to play blues harp before heading to Rock and Roll and preforming with The Hoochie Coochie Men that later became Steampacket and the likes of the Rolling Stones. He later joined Shotgun Express, sung as a guest with Python Lee Jackson, then on to the Jeff Beck Group. Next was the American group Faces. In 1971, in the beginning of his solo career his b-side song “Maggie Mae” hit #1 in both the U.K. and American Charts. It was also named 1 of The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll. Stewart has gone a different direction with his music, some say for the worse some will argue it’s his best, when he went to singing classic ballads with the release of “American Songbook”.

Ivana Trump
Best known for her marriage to Donald Trump. She was a Czechoslovakian skier, a model and business woman. Ivana’s marriage fell apart when Trump left her for Marla Maples, his mistress and next wife.

James Van Praugh
One of the world most popular mediums and author of books and host of TV shows.

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