Journalist, Author & Syndicated Columnist
Wendy Liebman is at the doctor’s office. There’s nothing wrong with the comedienne’s funny bone. Rather, the 40-year-old comic is waiting for her fiance to get checked for a spider bite. “My two almost step-sons–who are almost 6 and 10 years old–are here with us, too,” she says, phoning from Los Angeles.
Five years ago, Irma P. Hall made a name for herself playing a blind woman named Aunt T in “A Family Thing.” She’s playing another character named Aunt T, only this time it’s a cartoon voice on “A Rugrats Kwanzaa.” The 66-year-old South Side resident, who is best known for her touching role as Big Mama in “Soul Food,” doesn’t consider herself an actress, but rather a former teacher who happens to act.
The video-game console war between Microsoft’s Xbox and Nintendo’s GameCube heated up this week, with each side declaring itself the winner. Both companies introduced their systems within days of each other in mid-November. Sifting through the rhetoric to actually declare a champion is more challenging than game play on either controller.