NEW YORK - Oscar-winning actor Denzel Washington, who is playing Brutus in the Broadway revival of "Julius Caesar," has come up with a new defense against pesky ringing cell phones during live performances: iambic pentameter.
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Actor James Caan has filed for divorce from his wife Linda. They have been married more than nine years.
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Washington told CBS' "60 Minutes Wednesday" that "one of these days I'm going to respond in iambic pentameter: 'Answereth that, my lord. My lord, it is for you.'"
The CBS show said Washington is making $1,700 a week to appear onstage - a pittance compared with the millions of dollars he makes per movie. But Washington said acting isn't work.
"Acting is a privilege, and it's a craft and all of those things, but it's not work," he told the newsmagazine for its Wednesday night show, according to a transcript released Tuesday.
Washington, 50, won a best-actor Oscar for his performance as a crooked detective in 2001's "Training Day." He also won an Oscar for best supporting actor for 1989's "Glory." He has appeared in dozens of other films, including "The Manchurian Candidate," "John Q," "Philadelphia" and "Malcolm X."
The "Julius Caesar" revival, directed by Daniel Sullivan, opened at the Belasco Theatre on April 3.
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NEW YORK (AP) - Michael Imperioli is a turncoat.
The "Sopranos" star plays a homicide detective on four episodes on NBC's "Law & Order." Going from mobster to police officer, though, wasn't a dramatic leap for the actor.
"I find a lot of similarities just in the basic genetic makeup of these guys, of Christopher Moltisanti (his character on the HBO show) and Nick Falco (his role on "Law & Order")," Imperioli told The Associated Press in a recent interview.
"Geographically, economically and culturally, they grew up kind of similar."
A New Yorker, the 39-year-old Imperioli can now check off two of the city's signature metro-area dramas - and would like to add another Big Apple tradition.
"I've always wanted to work with Woody Allen in one of his movies," he said. "I actually got a role in 'Celebrity' but it conflicted with the pilot episode of 'The Sopranos.'"
"The Sopranos" will begin shooting its sixth season April 29, but Imperioli said he hasn't yet seen a script. Creator and producer David Chase has said this will be the show's last season, but Imperioli hopes otherwise.
"I think we're all hoping for it," he said. "I think everyone's a little reluctant for it to end. I also have faith that if there's not (another season), it's David Chase making the right decision for the show."
On "Law & Order," Imperioli teams up with his character's uncle, Detective Joe Fontana (Dennis Farina). His first appearance on the police drama was set to air Wednesday night.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) - "Las Vegas" star James Caan has filed for divorce from his wife of more than nine years.
His publicist, Paul Bloch, said Tuesday he didn't have details about the divorce but issued a statement from Caan.
"I love and respect my wife as a friend and as a mother," Caan said. "Our goal in life is to continue to be great parents and great friends. Our children are our entire lives and they will remain as such."
Caan and his wife, Linda, were married Oct. 7, 1995, according to the divorce petition filed Monday in Superior Court.
The couple have two children - Jacob, 6, and James Jr., 9, the petition said.
Caan, 65, stars in NBC's "Las Vegas" as Big Ed Deline, security boss of the fictional Montecito Resort & Casino.
He's best known for his role as Sonny Corleone in 1972's "The Godfather," which earned him an Oscar nomination.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - Kirstie Alley and Kelly Preston pleaded with lawmakers to prohibit schools from denying services to students who won't take mood-altering drugs to treat mental disorders.
Alley sobbed as she told members of the House Education Council the stories of children who committed suicide or died after taking psychotropic drugs.
"Here's an example of parents who didn't know what could happen, who just blindly went along with referrals and information," Alley said before holding up blown-up, color photos of children she said died after being prescribed medicines such as Zoloft and Ritalin.
"None of these children were psychotic before they took these drugs - none of these children were suicidal before they took these drugs."
Both actresses, who have children, are members of the Church of Scientology. Alley stars on the Showtime reality series "Fat Actress." Preston's screen credits include "What a Girl Wants" and "Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat."
They said after Tuesday's meeting that they were opposed to any child taking psychotropic medication.
"There's always another solution," Alley said. "Vitamins, nutrition, allergy testing, chemical sensitivity.... Find what's really, really going on."
She added that she was proud that it's an issue taken up by Scientologists.
"You would be hard-pressed, of these 8 million children on these drugs, to ever find one that's the child of a Scientologist," Alley said. "Because we have real information, alternative information about what can you do."
Preston added: "It's not a religious issue.... It is an issue about parents and parents' rights."
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CHOTEAU, Mont. (AP) - A state judge has set a tentative trial date for the man accused of plotting to kidnap the toddler son of "Late Show" host David Letterman.
Kelly Frank is scheduled to go on trial July 18 on charges of soliciting to kidnap, theft and obstruction. He has pleaded not guilty to all the charges.
Frank, a painter who had been hired to do work on Letterman's ranch in north-central Montana, was arrested in March after an acquaintance told investigators he had planned to kidnap the talk-show host's son, Harry Joseph, and the child's nanny and hold them for $5 million ransom.
On Tuesday, he entered an additional not guilty plea to a second charge of soliciting to kidnap - this charge involving the nanny.
Frank remains jailed on $650,000 bail.
Harry Joseph is the son of Letterman and his girlfriend, Regina Lasko. They were not at their Montana ranch at the time authorities said they uncovered the plot.
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NEW YORK (AP) - For his next stunt, David Blaine says he'll perform an "easy and fun" high-wire act in Manhattan on Halloween.
"Basically, it's something that's been done in the circuses, based on the old high-wire acts," Blaine told The Associated Press on Tuesday. "It's like family entertainment, this one."
For his last stunt, in the fall of 2003, Blaine dangled in a plastic cubicle near the River Thames in London for 44 days with only small amounts of water for nourishment. He emerged 50 pounds lighter.
The New York magician expects this next stunt will be less demanding.
"It's my easiest one," he said, adding that the logistics aren't completed. "I want it to be simplistic and reachable for everybody. I was even going to call this one 'Easy and Fun.'"
Blaine, 32, said he recently reached a deal with ABC for four more shows, beginning with the Halloween stunt. His three previous ABC specials will air on TLC beginning Sunday. The programs include "David Blaine's Vertigo," when he stood on a small platform atop a 100-foot-high pillar for 35 hours in midtown Manhattan, and "David Blaine: Frozen in Time," when he suspended himself inside a 6-ton block of ice for 62 hours in New York's Times Square.
While some have said his tricks no longer constitute magic in the traditional sense, Blaine said that's too narrow a view.
"I think magic is whatever the individual defines it to be. I say it's all magic."
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NEW YORK (AP) - Ashton Kutcher says if his new movie, "A Lot Like Love," tops the weekend box office, he'll model underwear.
"If we are the No. 1 movie in America, I will do a Calvin Klein underwear campaign," Kutcher said in an interview on syndicated entertainment show "Access Hollywood," that aired Tuesday night.
"It's actually a bet that I made with my producing partner, so we will see what happens," he added.
Kutcher has modeled for clothing lines, including magazine ads for Calvin Klein and catwalk work for Versace.
He co-stars with Amanda Peet in "A Lot Like Love." Opening Friday, the romantic comedy's competition for No. 1 at the box office will likely come from new release "Kung Fu Hustle" and last week's top earner, "The Amityville Horror."
Posing in underwear wouldn't seem to be an issue for the 27-year-old actor, who had no trouble doing his first nude scene in "A Lot Like Love."
"I like being nude," he said. "So for me, it wasn't incredibly tough."
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LOS ANGELES (AP) - "Beauty Shop" actress Golden Brooks has her own hairdo horror story worthy of inclusion in the recent comedy film.
Brooks says she went into a hair salon with a picture of Janet Jackson and said, "Can anybody make me look like this?"
"It was beautifully auburn for about five seconds, and I walked out of there looking like Grace Jones 'cause my hair fell out," the 34-year-old actress told reporters recently, according to AP Radio.
In "Beauty Shop," Queen Latifah reprises the hairdresser role she originated in "Barbershop 2: Back in Business," this time opening her own salon filled with wacky employees and customers.
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Anne Rice's house in Kenner and a condominium she owns are up for sale.
Rice, who brought the undead back to life in the 1970s with "Interview With the Vampire," is editing the galleys of her latest novel, "Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt," said her New Orleans spokesman, Ross Tafaro.
Her new book is "fiction based on Biblical scholarship," he said recently.
Tafaro said Rice has moved to San Diego to be near her son, Chris Rice.
He said he didn't know whether Rice will sell other property.
When she moved to Metairie in December, she put the Greek Revival mansion where she had lived for years - and which she used as the setting for "The Witching Hour" - on the market.
According to the city of New Orleans' online property database, Rice still owns a lot on the same block as the mansion, and three buildings, including the condominium, in other neighborhoods.
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