`ER'S' LASALLE REFUTES TABLOID TALES - STAT!Byline: Marilyn Beck & Stacy Jenel Smith Eriq LaSalle maintains that, despite tabloid reports to the contrary, he and his ``ER'' co-stars are ``relatively boring. ... We aren't necessarily causing scandals, we're not out drinking, we're not out screwing everything. ... The truth is most of us are actually in very healthy, productive relationships. ``People have got to realize that just five to eight years ago, the tabloids featured sightings of two-headed monsters, aliens and `I'm having the Loch Ness monster's baby' reports. So what kind of credibility can you give them?'' LaSalle is particularly upset at the weekly tabs because of reports that claim he is such an arrogant, demanding, unyielding pain on the ``ER'' set that producers hired new ``ER'' regular, Omar Epps Omar Hashim Epps (born July 23 1973) is an American actor and musician. Since 2004, he has played the role of Dr. Eric Foreman on the Fox medical drama series House. Biography Early life Epps was born in Brooklyn, New York to a single mother. , as the first move toward pushing Eriq off the show. ``I hate negativity for the sake of negativity,'' says LaSalle. ``I have no respect for anyone who promotes and advocates negativity. ``This woman comes up to me at church the other day and says she saw the article about `ER' writing me out. I said `Don't believe everything you read.' There's a mentality that if it's in print, there has to be some truth to it.'' He says that even his sister ``called me, asking, `What's this?' It really hurts when people in your circle - intelligent people - buy into that kind of stuff.'' Young at heart Tony Randall Tony Randall (February 26, 1920 – May 17, 2004) was an American comic actor. Early life He was born as Arthur Leonard Rosenberg to a Jewish family in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the son of Mogscha Rosenberg, an art and antiques dealer, and his wife, Julia Finston. has three words about the criticism he has met with for fathering a child at age 76: ``I don't care
"Don't Care" is a 1994 (see 1994 in music) single by American death metal band Obituary. .'' What's more, he volunteers that his bride Heather Harlan just celebrated her 26th birthday, and he adds cheekily, ``She's getting too old for me.'' But seriously ... Tony says he and Heather are more and more thrilled about the infant they're expecting in April as each day goes by. ``We've seen the little heart on a sonogram son·o·gram n. An image, as of an unborn fetus, produced by ultrasonography. Also called echogram, sonograph, ultrasonogram. . We don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. the sex yet. We don't want to know. ... We still have to get the room ready, buy a crib and a baby carriage. I never dreamed how expensive those things are!'' Right now, Randall's in final preparations to play Ebenezer Scrooge Ebenezer Scrooge is the main character in Charles Dickens' 1843 novel, A Christmas Carol. He is a very cold-hearted, selfish man, who has no love for Christmas, children, or anything that even provokes happiness. in the musical version of ``A Christmas Carol'' with Ben Vereen Ben Vereen (born October 10, 1946) in Miami, Florida, is a Tony Award-winning, Golden Globe ,and Emmy Award-nominated American actor, dancer, and singer who has appeared in numerous Broadway theatre shows. Vereen graduated from Manhattan's High School of Performing Arts. . Their 90-performance run at the Theater at Madison Square Garden Current arenas in the National Hockey League Western Conference Eastern Conference begins Nov. 22. Heather, he says, has been ``bringing me hot meals, as she did all last summer in London when Jack Klugman and I did `The Odd Couple' there. She cooks the meals herself and brings them over. She's just too good to be true.'' The big-screen scene Reports that Anthony Hopkins Noun 1. Anthony Hopkins - Welsh film actor (born in 1937) Sir Anthony Hopkins, Sir Anthony Philip Hopkins, Hopkins will be joining Pierce Brosnan to play the villain in the next James Bond feature are premature. At least. We hear that Sir Anthony is busy mulling several offers for 1997 projects - other than Bond. Wishing John Travolta is saying he'd love to star in a Broadway musical again. Lovely, but where he'd find the time is another matter. Travolta, who wings our way Thanksgiving as the eponymous archangel archangel, in religion archangel (ärk`ānjəl), chief angel. They are four to seven in number. Sometimes specific functions are ascribed to them. The four best known in Christian tradition are Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, and Uriel. ``Michael,'' is filming ``Face Off'' with Nicolas Cage, then he'll do ``Primary Colors those developed from the solar beam by the prism, viz., red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet, which are reduced by some authors to three, - red, green, and violet-blue. These three are sometimes called fundamental colors. See under Color. See also: Color Primary ,'' then ``Civil Disorder.'' Bringing out the heavy hitters After a dreary stretch at the box office, the season of blockbusters is upon us, with ``Ransom'' opening so spectacularly last weekend and ``Space Jam'' expected to do sky-high business when it's released Friday. ``Jam'' is a joy for all ages - and Michael Jordan, as director Ivan Reitman noted, truly has the stuff of a big-screen star. He's wonderful. The videoland view It'll be a tense time between Vondie Curtis-Hall's Dr. Hancock and Rocky Carroll's Dr. Wilkes in next Monday's episode of ``Chicago Hope.'' ``It's about the responsibility of successful black people to the inner city,'' says Carroll. ``Vondie's character decides to open a clinic in a poor neighborhood and assumes I want to be a part of it - but I have my reasons for not doing it.'' The former ``Roc'' star says it's the beginning of many conflicts between the two doctors. He feels, ``It's a healthy dose of confrontation. When I do interviews, I always get asked, `What do black people think about this?' But black people are not a uniformly thinking monolith. I don't know two black people who think the same thing about everything, so it's interesting to show the differences and the paradox in these characters.'' CAPTION(S): Photo Photo: Eriq LaSalle No gratuitous negativity |
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