Ray Liotta, 37, is rich, famous and ready to settle down. Not that he has found anyone to settle down with yet. "There are always prospects," says Liotta, currently starring in Article 99, "but no one on the horizon who floats my boat. I've been saving my money. It's there in the bank, so when I get married and have kids, I can treat them in the right way." Liotta, who was adopted, says he was treated in the right way by his parents. "I knew right off the bat that I was adopted. I did a report on it in show-and-tell in kindergarten," he says. When he was 3, his parents adopted a second child, a daughter, and brought little Ray along to help pick her out. "I remember coming home, being so proud, thinking that's how it was done. I just picked out a sister! She was my little trophy."
COMING BACK
Patricia Wettig, who played Nancy Ziegenmeyer, the Iowa rape victim who went public, in Taking Back My Life, the recent made-for-TV movie, knows firsthand about taking back one's life. When she was 17, one of her feet was severely burned in an accident. "For six weeks, my foot eroded. They took me to have my foot amputated, but luckily the doctor couldn't do it that day. It began to heal, but I had skin grafts for two years," says Wettig, now 40. "I wouldn't accept the fact that I couldn't walk or dance [again]. That wasn't my destiny." Wettig was determined not to lose her place as head majorette. "I said, 'I'm going to march in one of the football games,' and I did—the last game. Since then my modus operandi on life has been: 'What can we learn from this?' "
IT HAD TO BE YOU ON THE STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN
Jimmy Page, Led Zeppelin's legendary in-your-face guitarist, is just wild about crooner Harry Connick Jr., and even jammed with him at a Connick concert in Miami recently. "I'd been listening to his music, and I was keen to see what his concert would be like," says Page, 48, who was in Miami working on a new album. "We met before the concert, and Harry said, 'You should come up and play,' and I laughed. But I was sitting in the audience, and he suddenly said, 'We've got a really good friend here.... C'mon, Jimmy, come up and play with us.' I went up, and he put a guitar in my hands and said, 'Go ahead, it's your band.' So I did an improvised blues in B flat. I was so nervous! And he went over to the brass section and started singing these licks and cued them in." Would Page consider an encore? "Oh, yes, but I'll bring my own guitar the next time."
NOT BRINGING UP BABY
As Alex Halsey on NBC's Sisters, Swoosie Kurtz manages the lives of her ex-husband and their rebellious daughter. But in real life Kurtz has never been married and attributes her solo status to workaholism. "I'll admit it," says Kurtz, 47. "I'm obsessed about my work. I would always put that first. I may be one of those women like Katharine Hepburn. Children were never a part of the picture for me. Patricia Kalember [who plays Georgie on the series] is married and has two children. I'm in awe. I'm on my knees. I don't know how she does it. If I had been a man, I would have had a baby years ago. But the primal connection is between mother and child. For me, it was the right choice."
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