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Oregon Actor Stars
in Hit Sci Fi Show
“America’s Next Top Model” finalist Yaya will be
making her big screen debut this winter after landing a
leading role in the upcoming dance-drama entitled “Take
the Lead,” starring opposite Antonio Banderas.
Yaya was the outspoken Brown University graduate
who was the runner-up on season three o f “America’s
Next Top Model.”
Her flawless photographs and talent on the runway
were undeniable in a rare combination o f beauty and
brains.
Yaya will play the role of a dance student in the
upcoming film, which is inspired by the true story of
international ballroom dancer Pierre Dulane. Banderas
plays Dulane, who volunteers to give dance lessons to
New York public school students.
The story unfolds when his ballroom methods clash
with the students’ hip hop style, but teacher and students
later team up with a new style of dance.
Christopher Judge plays Teal’c, a wise alien
whose species is known as ‘Jaffa’ in the hit
series Stargate SG-1 on the Sci Fi Channel.
Football scholarship
leads to acting career
Yaya
Artist Speaks Up on Gay Bashing
(AP) — Kanye West says
too much of hip-hop bashes
gays - and that it needs to be
stopped.
During an interview for an
MTV special, the 27-year-
old rapper launched into a
discussion about hip-hop and
homosexuality while talking
about “Hey Mama,” a song
on his upcoming album, “Late
Registration.”
West says that when he
was young, people would call
him a “mama’s boy.”
“And what happened was,
it made me kind of homopho
bic, ‘cause it’s like I would go
back and question myself,”
West said on the show, “All
Eyes on Kanye West,” which
aired last Thursday night.
West said he changed his
ways, though, when he learned
one of his cousins was gay.
“It was kind of like a turn
ing point when I was like,
' Yo, this is my cousin. I love
him and I’ve been discrimi
nating against gays.’”
West says hip-hop was al
ways about “speaking your
mind and about breaking down
barriers, but everyone in hip-
hop discriminates against gay
people.” He adds that in slang,
gay is “the opposite, the exact
opposite word of hip-hop.”
K anye’s message: “Not
just hip-hop, but America just
discriminates. And I wanna
just, to come on TV and just
tell my rappers, just tell my
friends, 'Y o, stop it.’”
West, whose debut disc
“The College Dropout” won
a Grammy for best rap al
bum, will see his second
record in stores on Aug. 30.
Kanye
West
University of Oregon graduate and promi
nent African American Christopher Judge is
starring on the SCI FI channel hit series,
Stargate SG-1, Friday nights at 8 p.m.
Although Judge seemed predestined to have
a career in football after receiving a football
scholarship from the University of Oregon,
becoming a three time All- American and play
ing in the Hula Bowl, he always knew he
wanted to be an actor.
While in Eugene, Judge entered a contest to
host the FOX KLSR Morning Show. His witty
five-minute monologue helped him beat out
thousands of other hopefuls for the job. This
break led him to several guest starring appear
ances on such television comedies as Martin,
The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, Lush Life and The
Jamie Foxx Show.
His other television credits include Francis
Ford Coppola's First Wave, Freedom, The
Burning Zone, Wise Guy, 21 Jump Street,
MacGyver and Gabriel’s Fire. He also ap
peared as a series regular on Sirens.
Judge stars alongside Beau Bridges, Ben
Browder, and Amanda Tapping. Bio pasted
below. I would be happy to send you tape for
review.
Currently in its ninth season, Stargate SG-1
it is gamering the best ratings in its history. The
show follows Air Force General Jack O'Neill
(Richard Dean Anderson) and his team, as they
travel through the Stargate - an ancient portal
allowing instantaneous travel to distant galax
ies - to explore the uncharted regions of the
universe and save the Earth from destruction.