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When Betty Hutton was the No. 1 female star at Paramount Pictures in the 1940s, Bob Hope called her "a vitamin pill with legs." She still is. Hutton, 79, gave up show business years ago for a quieter life in Rhode Island. But several times during a rollicking interview on "Private Screenings" (8 p.m., Turner Classic Movies), she looks like she's going to fly out of her chair.

Hutton, an old friend of host Robert Osborne, carries on throughout the interview, sings bars from her more famous show tunes and tells tales on some of the greats she once worked for (working on a Preston Sturges film sounded like paid vacation). Following the program is a Hutton moviefest, starting aptly enough with "Incendiary Blonde."

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in 1997, "Days of Our Lives" recasts one of its more popular characters, Roman Brady, yet again. The character has already been brought back from the dead twice before, first with a different actor (Drake Hogestyn, an impostor named John Black who was thought to be Roman Brady, who fell to his death in 1984 after a tussle with Stefano DiMera), and then by the original actor returning to the same role. That would be Wayne Northrop, whose Roman Brady was held prisoner for years by Stefano. Finally, the role is played by Josh Taylor, who previously appeared on "Days of Our Lives" from 1977-1987 as a completely different character named Chris Kositchek. Seems this Roman Brady faked his death while on assignment for a secretive international government agency, so his family wouldn't know he was dying of a mystery illness. As often happens with actor changes, the switch is accomplished by having the character arrive in town with his face in bandages. -- Tom Heald

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