Skirt Stake
He wore a gray fright wig as Don King and is going
close-cropped for Mission: Impossible 2. But that's nothing
compared with the tonsorial traffic-stoppers Ving Rhames will
display in Holiday Heart, an upcoming comedy-drama exec-produced
by Robert De Niro's Tribeca Productions, in which he stars as a
drag-loving gay man. ''I have a lot of different looks in this,''
says the massive, deep-voiced actor — including a spin performing
as Diana Ross. His hair and makeup folks have a tough job, he
says, because ''brother, making me look like a woman is no easy
process.''
Write-Minded
Something funky is going on in Hollywood, where
more and more actors are deciding that what they really want to
do is...write. Dennis Quaid will soon be seen in the sci-fi
thriller Frequency, but he's most excited about the script he's
just completed. Citing author's superstition, he won't divulge
plot details, but he does betray his neophyte status by calling
the process ''really gratifying.'' Love and Basketball's Omar Eppsis currently shopping his script, Who Stole the Soul, which he
describes as ''a voyeuristic look into the life of a hip-hop
star.'' And Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, who penned Good Will
Hunting, might be collaborating again. ''We've both had writer's
block for two years,'' says Damon, who hopes to jump-start their
creativity by abandoning Halfway House, a script they began
years ago, and start anew. ''We know we're going to get murdered
this time, so we just want to write something we like, and then
we'll go out and take our medicine.''
Additional reporting by Tricia Johnson
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