CLOONEY DOES SOME LIGHTENING UP DURING SPRING BREAK.Byline: Marilyn Beck & Stacy Jenel Smith Do blonds have more fun? Ask 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 . He's taking advantage of the fact that he won't be starting his last season of ``ER'' for months, and isn't slated to make a movie this summer, by having his hair dyed yellow. How does he look? How could George Clooney look bad? Wearing many hats Alfre Woodard Alfre Ette Woodard (born November 8, 1952) is an American actress. She has been nominated for an Academy Award and has won four Emmy Awards, three SAG Awards and one Golden Globe Award. has lined up the next film to add to her executive-producer credits. It's ``Brown Sugar,'' which she describes as ``a real romantic comedy with grown-ups.'' The actress, who co-exec produced and starred in ``Down in the Delta'' with Wesley Snipes Snipes (Diminutive for Snipers) is a text-mode networked computer game that was created in 1983 by SuperSet software. Snipes is officially credited as being the original inspiration for Novell NetWare. , which Miramax has slated for Thanksgiving release, hopes to start ``Sugar'' this summer with Alan Rickman as co-star. She says ``Brown Sugar'' is ``funny, sexy and smart. I am the brown sugar.'' Woodard is currently shooting Larry Kasdan's ``Mumford'' with Ted Danson This biographical article or section needs additional references for verification. Please help [ to improve this article] by adding additional sources. Unverifiable material about living persons must be removed immediately, especially if potentially libelous or harmful. , Martin Short and Loren Dean This biographical article or section needs additional references for verification. Please help [ to improve this article] by adding additional sources. Unverifiable material about living persons must be removed immediately, especially if potentially libelous or harmful. . She took time out from filming to beat the drums for ``Africa's Elephant Kingdom,'' the first large-format film by Discovery Channel Pictures. The remarkable feature, which opens May 1 in L.A. at the California Science Center's new IMAX IMAX Noun a film projection process that produces an image ten times larger than standard Theatre, offers audiences a never-before-seen intimate look into the lives of elephants. ``The film shows an intelligence and emotionality in the animals that will change the way people look at elephants,'' says Woodard. ``Certainly, all of it will help in terms of our protecting them.'' The celebrity circuit Diana Ross was one surprised, thrilled star when Nelson Mandela Noun 1. Nelson Mandela - South African statesman who was released from prison to become the nation's first democratically elected president in 1994 (born in 1918) Mandela, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela walked on stage during her performance at the new Sundome in Johannesburg and extolled her virtues to some 15,000 cheering fans. What made it even more special: President Mandela told her he never goes to concerts. As he departed, a tearful Ross urged the audience, ``Please take care of him.'' John Goodman is in Manhattan starting rehearsals for ``The Skin of Our Teeth,'' the 1943 Thornton Wilder play that will be presented at the Delacorte Theatre in June as part of the Shakespearean Festival. Goodman turned down the chance to star in the sequel to ``The Flintstones'' and - after having had four films in release during the last few months - is taking a breather from the cameras. He does hope to star in the planned follow-up to one of those films, the charming children's picture ``The Borrowers.'' The handsome Blair Underwood has just finished playing a psychotic stalker (as opposed to your average, nice-guy stalker) in the big-screen ``Asunder a·sun·der adv. 1. Into separate parts or pieces: broken asunder. 2. Apart from each other either in position or in direction: The curtains had been drawn asunder. .'' The one-time ``L.A. Law'' co-star can be seen soon in ``Deep Impact,'' which is expected to be one of the summer's biggies. Money matters Della Reese's husband and manager Franklin Lett lets us know that she did not receive a ``Touched by an Angel'' raise to between $50,000 and $55,000, as we reported. She is, he says, making $42,500 per week - an automatic contractual bump of 5 percent from the $40,000 she had been making. The raise she was offered, he says, was so small she refused it on principle. The videoland view Fans of ``Buffy the Vampire Slayer'' know that a love triangle has developed between those pesky and testy tes·ty adj. tes·ti·er, tes·ti·est Irritated, impatient, or exasperated; peevish: a testy cab driver; a testy refusal to help. vampires Drusilla, Spike and Angel on the WB thriller. Now, Juliet Landau, who plays Drusilla, says that the love triangle will come to a head in the two-part season finale. She doesn't want to give away any details - ``If I say too much, I think I'll become the dead instead of the undead un·dead adj. No longer living but supernaturally animated, as a zombie. !'' - but adds that ``Buffy'' followers will also get a chance to see what their characters were like before they became blood-sucking fiends. ``We're going into the characters' back stories. I get to go back to England in 1860, and Angel goes back to the 1700s in Ireland.'' Foreign affairs Carlos Gardel, Argentina's most celebrated singer of tango tunes, who was killed in a plane crash 60 years ago, is being lionized with a four-CD set of his greatest songs - and with a big-screen biopic bi·o·pic n. A film or television biography, often with fictionalized episodes. biopic Noun Informal a film based on the life of a famous person [bio(graphical) + pic(ture)] . Producer Manny Manny may refer to: In nobility:
With reports by Stephanie DuBois. CAPTION(S): 3 Photos Photo: (1) George Clooney A different look (2) Diana Ross Quite a compliment (3) Blair Underwood Plays a stalker |
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