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...everyone there knew he would get out at around 6 a.m., they were eager for a sign that Tyson either was back in the fold of promoter Don King or had embraced Islam through the teaching of a local junior-high school teacher named Muhammad Siddeeq. To borrow two Oscar-nominated titles, it was the Lyin' King vs. the Plainfield Redemption. To a man, the journalists decided that if Tyson's limousine turned left out of the prison, he was headed for the mosque in Plainfield. If it turned right, he was on his way to the airport, a Lear...
Back when JIM CARREY was the man of a thousand faces but only a few hundred dollars, he wrote out a $10 million check to himself for "acting services rendered." Carrey tells Barbara Walters in her pre-Oscar interviewfest next week that two days before his father's death last September he signed to do The Mask II-for $10 million. "I put the [old] check with him in the casket," he says, tearing up for Walters. "I'd done the thing that he'd hoped his whole life...
...record won't turn Moloney's head. "It's been building up for years," he says. "I thought we were hot in 1976 when we got an Oscar for the Barry Lyndon sound track. And playing on the Great Wall of China in 1983 was a highlight. So this is just another step...
...came out fine. The Lion King album sold 7 million copies, and the hit single Can You Feel the Love Tonight? earned John a Grammy last week for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance (one of three Lion King Grammys). He's the prohibitive favorite to win an Oscar later this month: of the five nominees for Best Original Song, three are numbers from The Lion King. And he has a new generation of groupies: the six-year-olds who accost him in airports and tell him they love the movie's songs. "That's exactly what I wrote...
DIED. JACK CLAYTON, 73, film director; from heart and liver trouble; in Slough, England. Clayton's work ranged from the unblinking social realism of Room at the Top (1959), for which he received an Oscar nomination, to the supernatural period gloom of The Innocents...