CELEBRITIES : VING RHAMES READY TO PUT THE GLOVES BACK ON.Byline: Marilyn Beck and Stacy Jenel Smith Ving Rhames Irving Rameses "Ving" Rhames (born May 12 1959) is a Golden Globe-winning American actor. Biography Early life Rhames was born in New York City, New York to African-American parents Reatha, a homemaker, and Ernest Rhames, an auto mechanic. , who recently wrapped his role as fight promoter Don King in HBO's ``Don King: Only in America Only in America is a children's television programme that originally aired in 2005 on the CBBC Channel. It is presented by Fearne Cotton and Reggie Yates. The show documents the pair going on a road trip across the United States. ,'' is laying plans for another fight saga. Ving expects to be back in the ring come March to film a feature on the life of the first African-American heavyweight champion, Jack Johnson Jack Johnson may refer to:
Dickering for the project is going on now between several studios, reports the super-hot actor of ``Pulp Fiction'' and ``Rosewood'' fame. But first, Ving is booked quite heavily with other projects. Come September, he may well begin filming the ensemble picture ``Duets'' with Gwyneth Paltrow - and simultaneously start shooting ``Out of Sight'' with George Clooney George Timothy Clooney (May 6, 1961) is an American actor, director, producer and screenwriter who gained fame as the lead doctor in the long-running television drama, ER and Jennifer Lopez. In the latter picture, Rhames will play ``Clooney's best friend. He and I escape prison together. ... It's a dramedy, actually. A lot of comedy in it.'' The Don King bio that airs in December also has a surprising amount of comedy, Ving makes clear. Rhames interviewed dozens of King's associates - plus King himself - insisting on building his own perception of the man, he says. ``When the script first came to me, I was hoping it wouldn't be the stereotypical media perception of Don King: con man as buffoon.'' Rhames says he insisted on some revisions of the piece. It now features scenes in which he, as Don King, appears in a boxing ring and gives his side of various incidents portrayed in the movie. Tick, tick, tick ... Lesley Stahl Lesley R. Stahl (born December 16, 1941, in Lynn, Massachusetts) is an American television journalist. As of 2007, she has reported for CBS on 60 Minutes for nearly 16 seasons. admits she and her ``60 Minutes'' cohorts were ``scared'' when they learned that ``Dateline'' would be offering a Sunday night Sunday Night, later named Michelob Presents Night Music, was an NBC late-night television show which aired for two seasons between 1988 and 1990 as a showcase for jazz and eclectic musical artists. edition. However, she now makes it sound as if she and Mike and Ed, et al., should be grateful to the latter show for providing competition this year. ``I think we needed a jolt of electricity - and `Dateline' provided that. We had been resting on our laurels, but with the competition we came roaring back, more interested than we had been in getting pieces on the air quickly. The show has gotten better and we're having a better time.'' Stahl, who is starting her seventh season with ``60 Minutes,'' says that, as it turned out, ``Dateline'' didn't provide damaging competition in the ratings. ``We were a top 10 show this year, but not one of the top five shows. However, that wasn't because of `Dateline.' It was because we were hurt by CBS (Cell Broadcast Service) See cell broadcast. losing football, which was our very valuable lead-in.'' Hello, again Timothy Bottoms Timothy James Bottoms (born August 30, 1951) is an American actor. He is known for his roles in Johnny Got His Gun (1971), The Last Picture Show (1971) and its sequel Texasville (1990), and The Paper Chase (1973). checks onto the set of the remake of ``The Man in the Iron Mask'' at the landmark Mission Inn in Riverside on Tuesday - replacing actor Patrick Bauchau Patrick Nicolas Jean Sixte Ghislain Bauchau (born December 6, 1938) is a Belgian actor. Bauchau was born in Brussels, the son of Mary (née Kozyrev), a Russian-born school administrator and publisher, and Henry Bauchau, a school administrator, publisher, writer, and , who canceled out of the project to stay by the side of his ill wife in France. This is the feature film that's being made on a $300,000 budget, with a three-week shooting schedule and a cast that includes Meg Foster Meg Foster (born May 10, 1948) is an American actress. Career Foster was born in Reading, Pennsylvania. Since the 1990s, she acted mainly in stage productions and B-movies. , Edward Albert, James Gammon, Dennis Hayden, Nick Richert and Rex Ryon. Obviously, they're all working for minimal up-front salaries. Sax in the jungle Fans of sax man Dave Koz can look forward to a large dose of his musicianship mid-August, when he becomes the latest artist to be showcased in a PBS PBS in full Public Broadcasting Service Private, nonprofit U.S. corporation of public television stations. PBS provides its member stations, which are supported by public funds and private contributions rather than by commercials, with educational, cultural, pledge drive concert special - his ``Dave Koz: Off the Beaten Path, Live From Trinidad.'' Koz confesses he did the special without the kind of budget Yanni or John Tesh had to work with. ``But from the moment we got there, it was as if everyone was trying to help us,'' says Koz. For instance, ``My keyboard player uses a Hammond B-3 organ, which is very large. It would have cost about $5,000 to transport one over, so we didn't. Then we heard there was no organ on the island. Well, someone put an announcement on the radio: `The Dave Koz concert needs an organ. Does anyone have an organ?' A church 300 miles away called and said, `Yes,' and they loaded this organ onto a truck and brought it down.'' Koz and his band had the assistance of local steel musicians, African and Indian drummers, plus dancers costumed and staged by Peter Minchell, whose credits include the Atlanta Olympic Games. And just after they finished the final number, ``a torrential downpour broke - the kind that sends you running for cover. We were very lucky.'' Very. CAPTION(S): 3 Photos PHOTO (1) Ving Rhames Back in the ring (2) Leslie Stahl ``Dateline'' provided push (3) Timothy Bottoms Finds an ``Iron Mask'' |
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