Private service held for Tiger Woods' father

Private funeral services were held for Earl Woods, father of golfing great Tiger Woods on Friday.

Among those in attendance were Earl's wife, Kultida, Tiger and his wife Elin.


Former basketball player Charles Barkley at funeral for Earl Woods, father of Tiger Woods. AP photo from Yahoo News.


Also in attendance were former basketball player Charles Barkley, volleyball player and model Gabrielle Reece, and professional golfers Mark O'Meara and John Cook.

Earl Woods has long suffered from prostrate cancer, and this year Tiger interrupted his schedule twice to visit his father. He missed the Mercedes Championship at the start of the season in his longest absence from the tour since turning professional.

Tiger reportedly is on a hiatus of indefinite length following his father's death.

Dante Bacso leads in "Take the Lead"

Filipino-American actor Dante Basco co-stars with Antonio Banderas in Take the Lead a true story of professional dancer who volunteers to teach in the New York public school system.



Dante plays an aspiring young Latino dancer named Ramos. Filipino Americans may think the role is timely given the victory of Filipina professional dancer Cheryl Bautista Burke in Dancing with the Stars. Basco was joined in the cast of Take the Lead by Filipino-Canadian actor Darryl Reyes.

Lately the actor has worked mostly as a voice talent on animated series like Disney's American Dragon: Jake Long and Nickelodeon's The Last Airbender.

Antonio Banderas praises co-star Dante Basco


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Maggie Q gets combat training for Mission: Impossible III

Maggie Q, the half-Vietnamese actress from Honolulu, said that working besides Tom Cruise was a breeze compared to training on how to rescue a hostage for Mission: Impossible III.

Maggie had special combat training for the film which stars Cruise as Agent Hunt who battles an international weapons dealer played by Philip Seymour Hoffman.


Maggie Q at the opening of Mission: Impossible III at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York. Fashion Wire Daily photo from Yahoo News.

Maggie recently posed before the cameras at the Hollywood screening of the movie at Grauman's Chinese theater on May 4.