DEAR STACY: How could they leave us hanging on "Kyle XY"? When is the show coming back? What's up? — D.L., Astoria, N.Y.

DEAR D.L.: ABC Family renewed "Kyle" for a third season of at least 10 episodes last fall. No third-season premiere date has been set as yet. However, the producers and cast chatted about the show at an event held at The Paley Center for Media in Beverly Hills, Calif., last month and slightly pierced the veil of secrecy about what's ahead. For one thing, the mysterious teenager Kyle will come face to face with the scientists who created him, including his biological father. Jaimie Alexander, who plays Kyle's female counterpart, Jessi XX, will be back. The producers also indicated they'd love to take "Kyle" through four years of his college life.

DEAR STACY: Is "Knots Landing: Back to the Cul-de-Sac" available on DVD? What is Michele Lee up to these days? — Larry D., Cleveland

DEAR LARRY: No, the reunion telepic is not available on DVD, and there are no plans for its release. Still looking great at 65, the former "Knots Landing" lead says she's enjoying going around the country doing her one-woman musical act at performing arts centers these days.

DEAR STACY: Whatever happened to Henry Cele, the actor who played "Shaka Zulu"? — Gabriel S., Bronx, N.Y.

DEAR GABRIEL: Cele, whose dynamic portrayal of the founder of the Zulu nation caused a sensation around the globe, died last November in Durban, South Africa, nearly two weeks after being admitted to the hospital with a chest infection. He'd done South African television roles and appeared in movies including "The Last Samurai" and "The Ghost and the Darkness," but his career had taken a downward turn, as his last major production had been 2001's "Shaka Zulu: The Citadel." The one-time soccer pro was 58 years old.

DEAR STACY: I get a kick out of watching "The Beverly Hillbillies" reruns on cable. Is Donna Douglas still performing? — W.S., Cleveland

DEAR W.S.: Her last acting credits of note were in the '80s, but at 74, the Baton Rouge, La.-based Douglas still does speaking engagements before youth and church groups and public appearances at conventions, fairs, trade shows and such. She recorded a gospel album in 1982 and published a kids' book called "Donna's Critters & Kids: Children's Stories With a Bible Touch."

DEAR STACY: Where can I find the tune used in the Nature's Own whole-wheat bread commercial that goes, "I don't love you too much …"? — George F., Brooklyn, N.Y.

DEAR GEORGE: You can find the song "I Don't Love You Much Do I" on Guy Clark's 1992 album, "Boats To Build," on which the singer-songwriter performs it with Emmylou Harris.

Or you can find it, remastered, on Harris' 2007 album, "Songbird: Rare Tracks & Forgotten Gems." Or you can find the duet video on YouTube. The version used in the bread commercial is performed by studio musicians.

DEAR STACY: I was sorry to hear that "Girlfriends" has been canceled, but the show really lost something when Jill Marie Jones left. Was she let go, and what is she doing lately? — Shawna S., Brooklyn, N.Y.

DEAR SHAWNA.: Jones and Mara Brock Akil, the show's creator, each has stated that it was Jones' decision not to continue her role as Toni Childs on the series when her contract was up for renewal in '06, the same time it moved to The CW. She told Essence magazine: "I didn't leave 'Girlfriends' because I was upset or wanted more money. … I wanted to dream bigger or experience something new. … I really just wanted to do movies." Since then, she's played a housewife turned serial killer in the direct-to-DVD indie comedy "Redrum," appeared in "The Perfect Holiday" with Gabrielle Union and Morris Chestnut, and made the upcoming "The Longshots" and "Major Movie Star." Directed by Limp Bizkit's Fred Durst and with a cast including Keke Palmer and Ice Cube, "The Longshots," due in July, is about the first girl to play Pop Warner football. The latter feature is Jessica Simpson's forthcoming comedy about a Hollywood actress who winds up enlisting in the military.

DEAR STACY: Whatever became of the plans for William Hung of "American Idol" infamy to make a movie? Or was that just another case of a lot of ballyhoo over nothing? — Pat M., Casper, Wyo.

DEAR PAT: Actually, Hung did make a film, called "My Crazy Mother," in which he played a kid who sold Chinese pancakes to pay his mom's medical bills. It came out very briefly in 2005 and flopped. He's also in the yet-to-be released Western "Chinaman's Chance," which boasts a super-eclectic cast, including Jason Connery, Timothy Bottoms, Ernest Borgnine, Coolio, Christopher Atkins, Bo Svenson, Tommy Chong, Lorenzo Lamas, Danny Trejo and Olivia Hussey.

With reports by Stephanie DuBois and Emily Feimster.

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