RAPPER LL COOL J COOKIN' ON ALL BURNERS.Byline: Marilyn Beck & Stacy Jenel Smith Rap superstar LL Cool J will squeeze a book tour for his ``I Make My Own Rules'' autobiography into a week's production hiatus from his ``In the House'' sitcom next month - but that doesn't mean he'll neglect the 20-million-album-selling recording side of his career. Cool J tells us he'll not only be unveiling his eighth album, ``Phenomenon,'' in late September, ``I'll be touring on the weekends. I want to keep my music career alive on the live performance end. ``But before I do that, I have to revamp my concert show,'' adds the performer, who'll receive the Video Vanguard Award at the MTV MTV in full Music Television U.S. cable television network, established in 1980 to present videos of musicians and singers performing new rock music. MTV won a wide following among rock-music fans worldwide and greatly affected the popular-music business. Video Awards Sept. 4. ``That'll mean sitting down and figuring out what I want to accomplish on stage, structuring it properly, then rehearsing and getting it down.'' Cool J's upcoming book is already raising eyebrows in publishing circles for its graphic revelations about the wild sex life he used to carry on - and its depiction of his harrowing childhood. Ultimately he wound up as the married father of three who today has a youth camp among his community-minded activities - and who led the charge for an end to violence among East and West Coast rappers with a powerful statement at last spring's Essence Awards. ``I think it goes beyond the rap world,'' he says now. ``I think there's a growing consciousness that people want to raise their levels of positivity. ... The best thing you can do is promote that.'' Stretching his chops Comic Richard Lewis Richard Lewis may be:
abbr. 1. National Basketball Association 2. National Boxing Association NBA (US) n abbr (= National Basketball Association) → Basketball-Dachverband (= coach Pat Riley For the American guitarist, see . Patrick James "Pat" Riley (born March 20, 1945) is an American National Basketball Association head coach and team president of the Miami Heat. . ``I said I am going to mock Pat's hair and I did. I have more Vaseline in my hair than Pat Riley could ever dream of!'' The former ``Anything but Love'' series star has just started work on his new ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. sitcom, ``Hiller and Diller,'' created and produced by the prolific screenwriters Babaloo Mandel and Lowell Ganz Lowell Ganz (born August 31, 1948 in New York, New York) is an American screenwriter, television writer, and television producer. He is the long-time writing partner of Babaloo Mandel. Ganz grew up in Queens, New York. (``Splash,'' ``City Slickers,'' ``A League of Their Own''). ``This is really an exciting project for me,'' says Lewis. ``I've known so many people who've worked with or for Babaloo and Lowell. They're hilarious. And this is one of my secrets - I don't feel I would have made it in this town until I was hired by a man called Babaloo!'' One show's meat is another's poison Sounds like CBS' ``Murphy Brown'' will be making hay with that nasty bit of real-life business endured over at ABC involving the big legal war between ``Prime Time Live'' and the Food Lion Food Lion LLC is an American grocery store company headquartered in Salisbury, North Carolina that operates approximately 1,300 supermarkets in 11 Southeast and Mid-Atlantic states under the Food Lion, Harveys, Bloom, Bottom Dollar, and Reid's nameplates. market chain. Soon to shoot is an episode of the Candice Bergen Candice Patricia Bergen (born May 9, 1946) is an Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winning American actress and former fashion model, known primarily for her roles in sitcoms and television. starrer in which Murphy and cohorts - having been successfully sued over an expose by a supermarket company called ``Food King'' in 1992 - investigate the chain again. Along the way, we'll see a box boy who decides to cooperate with the TV team because he's been passed over for promotion to the 12-items-or-less line - and Lily Tomlin Lily Tomlin (born September 01, 1939) is an Academy Award-nominated American actress, comedian, writer and producer. Tomlin's body of work, which has spanned over 40 years, has garnered her several Tony Awards and Emmy Awards, as well as a Grammy Award. going undercover as ... Gretchen, the cheese hostess. Here 'n' there As Motown's hot teen pop group 98 Degrees has been traveling across the country and into Canada with its motor home, the members have picked up more than record sales. In Toronto, the group - Justin, Jeff and brothers Nick and Drew - had teen fans mobbing the vehicle, and after the motor home pulled away, the boys found two teen-age girls sprawled out in the bed. They perform at Six Flags in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of today - and, mothers, watch your daughters. The Literacy Benefit Concert at Harry's Restaurant in New York's Woolworth Building Sept. 13 is getting one heck of an assist from the Gooding family. Oscar winner (``Jerry Maguire'') Cuba Gooding Jr. and his brother Omar, the former ``Hangin' With Mr. Cooper'' co-star, will be there cheering on the performance of the Main Ingredient - with their pop, Cuba Gooding Sr., singing and other brother Thomas leading the band. The fund-raiser's being held on behalf of literacy projects at the Police Athletic League's Harlem office - projects that get major support from Cuba Sr.'s management company, People First Management. Little big screen Sony-TriStar has set a Sept. 29 production start date for a live-action feature film of the beloved children's book ``Madeline.'' CAPTION(S): 2 Photos Photo: (1) LL Cool J Racy rac·y adj. rac·i·er, rac·i·est 1. Having a distinctive and characteristic quality or taste. 2. Strong and sharp in flavor or odor; piquant or pungent. 3. Risqué; ribald. 4. autobiography (2) Richard Lewis Babaloo's boy |
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