Showing posts with label celebrity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label celebrity. Show all posts

Thursday, April 22, 2010

Tom Sizemore



We saw the very talented actor Tom Sizemore on Larry King.

Best Wishes. He is always the best thing about all his films.





Larry King - http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/larry.king.live/

April 21, 2010

Actor Tom Sizemore opens up on his battle with drug addiction and the fight to stay clean.


Sizemore Recited Shakespeare To Stay Sane In Prison

TOM SIZEMORE used his acting skills to help him cope with prison - he would recite Shakespearean plays to pass the time in his cell.

The Saving Private Ryan actor was jailed for 17 months in 2005 after failing drug tests while on probation for assaulting his then girlfriend, Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss, two years earlier (03).

And Sizemore reveals he endured life behind bars by focusing on his love of The Bard - writing down excerpts from his favourite plays and reciting them to keep his "brain working".

He tells U.S. newsman Larry King, "I didn't do drugs in prison. I focused on not losing myself. There wasn't a lot of fighting. I had to fight a few times and I can handle myself. I'll take a beating, I don't care.

"But in prison, it's different. Taking a beating could be your last beating. I know Shakespeare a lot. I know it well. I remember full plays almost. I've (a) really great memory. I wrote down as many of the plays I've been in that I can remember the lines that I had and other characters I had. I wrote down the movies I had been in.

"I wrote them out to make sure my brain was still working and to keep myself - I have a good imagination, I could disappear into (acting)... When I played Iago (in Othello), I still know what I did when I was 21."


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Thursday, April 15, 2010











This weekend the annual Grand Prix of Long Beach takes over the streets of downtown Long Beach, CA.

The three day event, which attracts world-class Indy 500 drivers, includes a Pro/Celeb race on Saturday, 4.17 where movie, TV and music stars battle it out on the race course.

Last year's winner, Keanu Reeves will back along with Adrien Brody, and newcomers, Christian Slater, Brian Austin Green, Anthony Anderson, Adam Carolla, Tony Hawk, Jesse McCartney, Patrick Warburton, Megyn Price, Tika Sumpter, and this year's Grand Marshal, Mark Wahlberg.


http://www.gplb.com/index.html

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Cal Worthington

I was listening to my car radio this morning (KFI AM 640 - Bill Handel) and Cal Worthington was being interviewed. Just this past weekend himself and I were watching TV and a Worthington Ford commercial played, which had us both asking, "How old IS Cal Worthington? We got our answer. Cal is 89 (in 2010).

I learned several other interesting things also, he was a decorated B-17 pilot over Germany during WWII and could not find work as a pilot after the war because he did not have a college degree. He went on to become one of the most famous car dealers in the US.


http://www.kfi640.com/pages/Bill_Handel.htm
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