Ex-mayor hears, accepts higher call
Former Philadelphia Mayor W. Wilson Goode will be ordained a Baptist minister next month."The mayorship is my old life," Goode said. "But my call to ministry is a higher calling."
Goode, 61, will be ordained Dec. 12 at the First Baptist Church of Paschall, where he has been a member since 1950. Goode plans to step down next fall as deputy assistant secretary of the U.S. Education Department.
He said he felt called to the ministry in 1996, when he was giving a sermon at a church and heard a voice say, "Preach my word."
Goulet helps fill in for Andy Williams
Robert Goulet is trading La Mancha for Moon River.
The 65-year-old singer will join Debby Boone at the Moon River Theater in Branson, Mo., next month to help fill in for an ailing Andy Williams.
Williams was forced to cancel two months worth of performances because of a nonmalignant node on his vocal cords.
Boone and her father, Pat, have been performing the shows in November, but Pat has other obligations after Dec. 2. Goulet will fill in for 16 shows.
Goulet has recorded more than 60 albums. He has played Don Quixote in "Man of La Mancha" on Broadway.
No broken bones about it: Film is fun
Casper Van Dien didn't tell anyone he had broken a finger while filming a fight scene for the movie "Sleepy Hollow."
He reset the bone himself, and "then I kept fighting and riding horses for the next eight days," he said in USA Weekend magazine.
Van Dien, who plays a rival of Johnny Depp's character Ichabod Crane, said he had good reason for not complaining: "I was having fun. I was in a Tim Burton film. I was in a scene with Johnny Depp."
Mandela visit lures Glover and Freeman
Danny Glover and Morgan Freeman admit they only needed one reason to travel all the way to South Africa: a chance to spend time with anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela.
"When you get a chance to sit with Madiba for just a minute -- it doesn't take me long" to decide to come, Glover told reporters. Madiba is Mandela's clan name and has become an affectionate nickname.
Freeman said he's in "deep talks" with Mandela and South African filmmaker Anant Singh to play the role of Mandela in a movie about the former president.
"I'm looking forward to the experience," Freeman said.