James Woods will star in new TV series 'Shark'

James Woods will starin new TV series 'Shark'
PASADENA, Calif. -- James Woods is among the movie actors who will be starring on the small screen this fall. Woods, 59, a two-time Oscar nominee for "Salvador" and "Ghosts of Mississippi," will play Sebastian Stark, a supremely confident defense attorney who brings his cutthroat tactics to the prosecutor's office, in CBS' "Shark." "I had always said I didn't want to do a series -- not that I was a snob about television," Woods told the Television Critics Association on Saturday. "I didn't want to play the same character again and again and again because it was hard to imagine how he would evolve. I chose this job because it's the best thing I've read in 10 years," he said.
Aniston would liketo reprise 'Friends' role
LONDON -- Jennifer Aniston says she would like to reprise her role as Rachel Green in a reunion show of TV's "Friends.""The only thing I can think of doing is maybe for fun doing a Thanksgiving episode," Aniston said in a TV interview for Channel Four. "Our Thanksgiving episodes were really fun." "Friends," which centered on the lives of six young friends living in Manhattan, ended its 10-year run in 2004. .
Jackie Chan apologizesfor disrupting concert
HONG KONG -- Jackie Chan has apologized for disrupting a recent concert by Taiwanese singer-songwriter Jonathan Lee. Chan climbed on the stage and then exchanged insults with the audience during Lee's July 10 concert. The Ming Pao Daily News quoted Chan, star of the "Rush Hour" movies, as saying onstage that he was drunk. The 52-year-old action star was filmed by an audience member, apparently by a cell phone. The footage was posted on the video-sharing Youtube.com Web site. The video showed a surprised Lee asking Chan, "How come you came up?" When audience members began yelling for Chan to get off the stage, Chan responded with a Cantonese insult. The crowd eventually applauded after Lee and Chan began singing a duet. Meeting with reporters after a promotional event Sunday for his new film, "Rob-B-Hood," Chan was initially reluctant to address the event but later apologized.
CBS to advertise on eggs
PASADENA, Calif. -- CBS is enlisting eggs in its scramble to attract viewers. The CBS logo and slogans promoting the TV network and its series will appear along with coded expiration dates on eggs sold by grocers -- just another promotional measure in the competitive world of television. More than 35 million eggs will be marked with phrases such as "CSI: Crack the Case on CBS" and "The Class, New Grade-A CBS Comedy" as part of a deal between the CBS Marketing Group and EggFusion, an egg-coding company. The campaign will begin in September, when the fall TV season begins, CBS said Saturday at a meeting of the Television Critics Association.
Today's birthdays
Former South African President Nelson Mandela is 88. Former Sen. John Glenn, D-Ohio, is 85. Skating champion and commentator Dick Button is 77. Singer Dion DiMucci is 67. Actor James Brolin is 66. Singer Martha Reeves is 65. Singer Ricky Skaggs is 52. Rock musician Nigel Twist (The Alarm) is 48. Rock musician Jack Irons (Pearl Jam) is 44. Actor Vin Diesel is 39. Rock musician Daron Malakian (System of a Down) is 31. Rock singer Ryan Cabrera is 24.