Forest Whitaker has a shot at winning a Best Actor Oscar at the Academy Awards this year for his scintillating portrayal of the Ugandan dictator Idi Amin in the film “The Last King of Scotland.�
I just finished Norman Mailer’s new novel, “The Castle in the Forest,� his factional account of the conception, early years, and adolescence of Nazi Dybbuk Adolf Hitler, and the reader in me couldn’t be more satisfied.
Live from the Suffolk Community College in Selden, NY, in a card broadcast on ESPN’s Friday Night Fights, Fast Eddie Chambers (28-0, 16 KOs) handed formerly unbeaten Derric Rossy (15-1, 9 KOs) his first loss with a stunning seventh round TKO stoppage.
The Johnny Bos Roast is going on as scheduled next Thursday night at 7 pm at Hurley’s Steakhouse, located at 48th Street between 7th and 8th Avenues.
Middleweight champion of the world Jermain “Bad Intentions� Taylor has been socked with two civil law suits filed by two women who claim that the champ assaulted them during a Sept. 3 performance by comedian Katt Williams at Robinson Auditorium in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Being wired has been likened to having a second mind to meld with our first, but with the second mind free of the encumbrances of ego, id and superego, the mischievous holy trinity which likes nothing better than to play havoc on the first.
Pretty Boy Floyd is scheduled to meet the Golden Boy Oscar De La Hoya in a May superfight that most observers expect to will be either a passing of the torch from ODLH to PBF or a swansong for one or both fighters, depending on what transpires, depending on how Pretty Boy Floyd is feeling at the final bell.
Calzaghe, who was once named “Wales’s Sexiest Man,â€? is not done being sexy or done being a man and has been “chosen to pose in the buff the centrefold of the June edition of women’s magazine Cosmopolitan.â€?
Former heavyweight champion of the world Vitali Klitschko, who recently announced his return to active duty after a premature retirement, has told ITV that the fight he most wants is a rematch with Lennox Lewis.
Laila Ali, in Johannesburg, South Africa, for her February 3 super middleweight title bout against Guyanan Gwendolyn O’Neil, told Reuters that Nelson Mandela, the 88-year-old anti-apartheid superhero who brought white rule on the dark continent to its knees, reminds her of her father.
