Perrineau 'Lost' in 'Oz'

Answer: Yep. The fellow's name is Harold Perrineau, and he also played Link in two of the "Matrix" movies.

Question: Please settle a 15-year-old debate between a friend and me. On a random night in the early 1990s, my friend and I both separately watched a very short-lived sitcom on ABC that ran for only one or two episodes. The basic premise was two girls up to no good in New York City. I originally said the show was called "The Belles of Baker Street," while he claimed it was "The Belles of Bleecker Street." Since Bleecker Street is in Greenwich Village, I am only now years later ready to concede that he is right. But before I do, who is right? And did the girls in the show ever do anything else?

Answer: Why settle it now? Your debate will be able to get its driver's license next year! You guys have one of two things: (1) Amazing memories, or (2) No personal lives. "The Belles of Bleecker Street" aired just once, in the summer of 1991 on ABC. Only a pilot episode was filmed. The stars were Melissa Clayton and Barbara J. Gonzalez, who have gone on to a bit of TV and not much else.

Question: Sometime in the mid-1980s there was a TV movie on the lives of the Beatles. I can't remember much of the details except the character playing John Lennon kept calling Ringo by his given name of Ritchie. As I recall, it focused more on their lives, not so much their music. Any help?

Answer: Sounds like the 1979 TV movie "Birth of the Beatles," with Stephen MacKenna as John, Rod Culbertson as Paul, John Altman as George and Ray Ashcroft as Ritchie . . . er, Ringo.

Question: I'm not sure when this show aired, but it was about a woman with Parkinson's disease. Her husband was a writer or a politician and it took place around Washington, D.C. Can you tell me the title of this movie and if it's on video?

Answer: That's the TV movie "Saving Milly," which aired last year. Bruce Greenwood played D.C. pundit Morton Kondracke, and Madeleine Stowe played his wife. "Saving Milly" isn't on video yet.

Question: I can't believe how many questions are asked of you regarding certain songs, but now I'm one of those asking. At the end of the May 4 episode of "American Inventor" they played a version of "Somewhere Over the Rainbow." Can you give me the info on it?

Answer: That version was performed by Eva Cassidy on the CD "Songbird."