READERS ASK CLOSER

Q Is it true Debby Boone didn’t sing the title tune for the movie You Light Up My Life?

A It doesn’t feel so right. But it was the voice of singer Kasey Cisyk that actress Didi Conn lip-synced to when the pic opened on Aug. 31, 1977. Debby’s version of the hit tune was released a few weeks earlier.

Q Did zombie maestro George A. Romero really once work for Mr. Rogers?

A That’s dead-on. With George just out of college, the neighborly Fred let him shoot short films for his show. “Mr. Rogers Gets a Tonsillectomy is the scariest film I’ve ever made,” the late director once joked. “What I really mean is that I was scared s---less [trying] to pull it off.”