People and Celebs

Capt. Chesley Sullenberger is expected any moment at a Danville, Calif., Starbucks, and I wait there, half-expecting the American hero to zoom down from the heavens, like Superman.

TORONTO - After director Scott Hicks made "Hearts in Atlantis," which needed an 11-year-old boy to star opposite Anthony Hopkins, he vowed never again.

Thirty-five years into his role as host of "Prairie Home Companion" Garrison Keillor is a national emblem of Minnesota humor. He is also an extreme self-doubter.

"It's really dissatisfaction with my own work that keeps me going," he said in a recent interview, "and this profound sense of failure that I feel after almost every show I do."

It sounds like a cliche, but it's true -- at 45, Juliette Binoche is becoming rejuvenated by her hometown of Paris. The City of Light is once again her city of life.

A look at Ed Asner's resume turns up guest roles in a host of legendary television shows: "The Naked City," "Alfred Hitchcock Presents," "Route 66," "The Untouchables," "The Outer Limits," "Burke's Law," "Mission: Impossible," "The Wild Wild West," "Rich Man, Poor Man," "Roots."

Mary Travers, whose bell-clear alto defined songs of the folk era, stayed a true believer well into an age when true belief was enough to reduce many to the status of quaint oddity, like some lost soldier found on a South Pacific island, fighting on long past the truce.

Meat Loaf, the man not the meal, made a name for himself as a hard-rocking, larger-than-life musician, but Michael Lee Aday (born Marvin Lee Aday) began his career on stage doing Shakespeare in the Park. Now 61, he is probably best known for his "Bat Out of Hell" operatic rock album trilogy that stayed on the charts for nine years and has sold more than 35 million copies.

Stan Lee says he likes to keep busy, and luckily that's never been a problem for the 86-year-old comic-book legend.

The latest Juliette Lewis album came out Sept. 1. Scarlett Johansson's second record comes out this week. Lindsay Lohan appears to be on a musical hiatus, but there's bad news, as well: San Francisco Giants pitcher Barry Zito has reportedly been spending time in the studio ...

He's been on ABC's "Lost," playing an evil corporate type, and on HBO's "The Wire," as Cedric Daniels. Now actor Lance Reddick is playing FBI agent Phillip Broyles, who heads up a department that investigates paranormal incidents, on Fox's "Fringe." His character's stern persona is similar to others he has played, but the difference is in the details.