By PATRICIA SHERIDAN, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Best known as the Rev. Eric Camden on the TV series "7th Heaven" (1996-2007), actor Stephen Collins is also a novelist, director and musician. He has been married to actress Faye Grant for 23 years, and they have a teen-age daughter, Kate.

He was the brooding, bad boy on the 1990s TV series "Beverly Hills 90210." He left Fredericktown, Ohio, a small town in the heart of Amish country, and got bit parts in soap operas before landing in the right ZIP code. Perry, who has two children with his ex-wife, Rachel Minnie Sharp, talks about being a teen idol, raising beef and pointing his children in another direction.

Pop-culture staple, actor and singer David Hasselhoff has enjoyed and endured decades of the limelight. From the hit TV series "Knight Rider" and "Baywatch" to Broadway performances and a singing career in Europe, he never wants for work.

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Guru of green, actor and activist Ed Begley Jr. turned the cameras on his passion for eco-friendly living and his wife, Rachelle, with the award-winning HGTV reality show "Living With Ed." Before that, he was known for his film role in "Spinal Tap" and the TV hit "St.

Probably most recognized for his role as Clark Kent in the 1990s television series "Lois & Clark: the New Adventures of Superman," actor Dean Cain talks about the Japanese father who abandoned him, his freedom from routine, his son from a former relationship and dating.

The original ghost whisperer, James Van Praagh, is known as a psychic/medium who has made a career of talking to the dead and reassuring the living.He talks about what he claims happens to people after they die, about ghosts attached to Britney Spears and about his own Heath Ledger experience.

A rare disease stole his sight by the time he turned 14. His mother was killed in a car accident after his freshman year in high school. But Eric Weihenmayer, 39, never let adversity limit his ambition. He went on to make history as the first blind man to scale Mount Everest, in 2001. He wrote "Touch the Top of the World," which was made into a film for A&E.

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Jim Cramer, the wildly energetic host of CNBC's "Mad Money" and co-founder of TheStreet.com, is a bull in a bear market. He rushes from one topic to another -- his long-term picks, CEO compensation, averting a crash.