Mickey Rourke won't wrestle pro Chris Jericho
A spokeswoman for actor Mickey Rourke says he won't be taking his role as a professional wrestler into a real-life ring after all.
Paula Woods told the Associated Press that Rourke will not wrestle WWE superstar Chris Jericho at Wrestlemania 25 in April.
Rourke, who plays pro wrestler Randy "The Ram" Robinson in the film The Wrestler, said Sunday at the Screen Actors Guild awards that he would toss Jericho "around the ring like tossed salad."
Calling e-readers
Tom Clancy, the author of such blockbusters as Patriot Games and Clear and Present Danger , is making his work available electronically starting Tuesday with his breakthrough novel, The Hunt for Red October.
Publisher Penguin Group announced yesterday that Clancy's books will be available in all e-formats.
Executives Laura Porco of Amazon.com and Chris Smith of Sony Reader said yesterday that Clancy has been in great demand.
Speaking of books
Michelle Obama's brother is working on a book, part tribute to his family and part inspirational guide.
"I've been privileged to know some extraordinary people in my life," said Craig Robinson in a statement yesterday. His A Game of Character will be published next year by Gotham Books, an imprint of Penguin Group.
"I've watched as my sister, Michelle, a rock of a mother, became a leader in her own right. My brother-in law, President Barack Obama, who I knew from the first time I met him had something special, continues to inspire all of us."
Robinson, who coaches men's basketball at Oregon State University, introduced his sister last summer at the Democratic National Convention in Denver.
6 design teams in running
Six design teams - all with prominent black principals - will compete for two months to design a national black history museum on the National Mall, the Smithsonian Institution announced yesterday.
The National Museum of African-American History and Culture will likely be the last new museum building added to the grounds between the Washington Monument and Capitol. The design finalists have created structures that include the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem, the Museum of the African Diaspora in San Francisco and an expanded Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York.
