Dear Ken: What can you tell us about Nolan Gould, who plays Luke on “Modern Family”?

Gould, 13, turned pro at the ripe old age of 3 making TV commercials. His film credits include “Montana,” “Space Buddies,” “Monster Heroes” and “Friends With Benefits.” He also co-starred in the Hallmark TV movie “Sweet Nothings in My Ear” and will star in the upcoming TV movie “Ghoul.” The native of Columbus, Ga., also co-stars in the 2013 flick “The To Do List.”

Dear Ken: Please share some information on Melissa McCarthy, the star of “Mike & Molly.”

McCarthy, 41, was born in Plainfield, Ill., and grew up on a farm in a large, Irish-Catholic family. Before her current role, which won her an Emmy Award last year, she played Sookie St. James on “Gilmore Girls” and was in the movies “Bridesmaids,” “Life as We Know It,” “The Nines” and “The Back-up Plan.” She and her husband, actor Ben Falcone, have two daughters, ages 4 and 1. She will star later this year in the film “This Is Forty” and is slated to make two more movies, “ID Theft” and “Tammy.” The actress, who plays a schoolteacher on the show, says she often hears from fans about how the show seems to be about real people: “I get a lot of comments that they love, that, you know, that ‘I’m a teacher’ or ‘I have a sister that is a teacher. You look like a teacher. You dress like a teacher.’ I’ve always had a thing where I hate where somebody is talking about, ‘I can’t pay the rent.‘ I’m like, ‘You have a $3,000 handbag.’ We try to just stay real to the characters. They do such a great job . . . writing this kind of great little story and luckily we get to stay true to it.”

Dear Ken: What’s the latest on pop-country star Glen Campbell?

You probably know that last June he announced that he had been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. Campbell, 75, whose career began more than 60 years ago as a 15-year-old guitar picker, has sold millions of records including such songs as “Gentle on My Mind,” “By the Time I Get to Phoenix,” “Wichita Lineman,” “Galveston” and “Rhinestone Cowboy.” He is currently on his farewell tour which will go at least through the end of June. The Delight, Ark., native will receive a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award on this year’s show on Feb. 12. He says, “I have been blessed, I really have. I really have, I figured it out that I’m not that bright, but God gave me a break.” Last fall he released his final studio album, “Ghost on the Canvas,” which is loosely based on his life. On the video of the album’s title track, Campbell can be seen performing with three of his children: Ashley, Shannon and Cal. To watch, go to www.glencampbellmusic.com.

Dear Ken: Actor Cuba Gooding Jr., who spoke that great line, “Show me the money!” to Tom Cruise in “Jerry Maguire,” what’s he been doing lately?

Gooding, 44, who was born in The Bronx, N.Y., stars as pipe-smoking Major Emanuelle Stance in the current movie “Red Tails.” Coincidentally, he starred in the 1995 TV movie “The Tuskegee Airmen,” the exact subject of “Red Tails.” Last year, the actor starred in “Ticking Clock,” “The Hit List” and “Sacrifice.” He stars this summer in the thriller “One in the Chamber.” Of his current war film, on which filmmaker George Lucas spent $58 million of his own money to produce, Gooding says, “Visually, you really feel you’re in these cockpits. Some of the dog fights in this movie really feel like the same thing that we had in ‘Star Wars.’ I think the only difference is that all of the actors in the cockpits are black, except for the Nazis, the Germans trying to shoot them out of the sky.”

Jerry Lewis hopes to go ‘Nutty’ on Broadway

Dear Ken: We heard that “The Nutty Professor” is going to Broadway. If so, when will it premiere?

Jerry Lewis, who wrote, directed and starred in the original “Nutty Professor” in 1963, has been working on a Broadway musical version for a couple of years (with a score by Marvin Hamlisch). He would love to have it on the Great White Way before the end of this year. Born Joseph Levitch in Newark, N.J., Lewis, 85, has five sons, a daughter and a son that is deceased. As for remakes, John Travolta is interested in updating Lewis’s 1965  film “The Family Jewels.”