ADVISORY/Bernie Mac At Barnes & Noble Rockefeller Center Thursday, May 1st; King of Comedy To Sign Copies Of New Memoir, Maybe You Never Cry Again.

Entertainment Editors

ADVISORY...for Thursday (May 1)

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Barnes & Noble:

    EVENT: Bernie Mac is the star and co-creator of The Bernie Mac
           Show. He has appeared in Russell Simmons's Def Comedy Jam,
           HBO's Midnight Mac, The Original Kings of Comedy, Mo'
           Money, Moesha, Ocean's Eleven, Head of State, and the
           upcoming Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle and Mr. 3000. In
           his memoir, Maybe You Never Cry Again (HarperCollins
           Publishers), Mac takes readers on a journey from his humble
           beginnings as "Beanie" on Chicago's South Side through his
           days as the opening act for numerous headliners such as
           Dionne Warwick and Natalie Cole to his breakthrough as one
           of the Original Kings of Comedy.

    WHERE: Barnes & Noble Rockefeller Center
           600 Fifth Avenue (at 48th Street)


    WHEN:  Thursday, May 1, 2003
           1:00p.m.
           Call time 12:30p.m.