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GOLF DIGEST
My Game: Anthony Anderson
I'm like a junkie. I'm hooked. My passion for the game goes deep and long. |
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NEW YORK POST
New ‘Order’
HERE'S your first look at Anthony Anderson, the newest addition to "Law & Order." Anderson, who starred on Fox's "K-Ville" last season, joins the cast as Det. Kevin Bernard. |
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NEW YORK POST
‘Order’ Restored
AS interesting as it is to watch new shows for the first time, sometimes, there's nothing better than a slow week. |
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USA TODAY
Andersons New Turn
Is he the buffoon who co-starred opposite a drug-sniffing mutt in See Spot Run, a money-swiping marsupial in Kangaroo Jack and Frankie Muniz in Agent Cody Banks 2? |
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PEOPLE MAGAZINE
Relatively Funny
Scary Movie 3 Rapmeister Anthony Anderson Riffs on his family in a WB Sitcom. Anthony Anderson's round baby face keeps looming up... |
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TV GUIDE
Shows You Can Watch Together
The throwback sitcom All About the Andersons mixes elements of some beloved old shows. Friday prime time means no homework for tomorrow... |
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USA TODAY
Who he is: Anderson stars in the WB family sitcom All About the Andersons... which is loosely based on his own life. |
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PEOPLE MAGAZINE
Relatively Funny
November 17, 2003 |
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 Scary Movie 3 Rapmeister Anthony Anderson Riffs on his family in a WB sitcom.
Anthony Anderson's round baby face keeps looming up like a balloon in the craziest hits: He was one of Jim Carrey's triplet sons in Me, Myself & Irene, battled a roo in Kangaroo Jack and now plays the mentor of a hip-hop farmboy in Scary Movie 3. "Comedy is second nature for me," he says, and it's easy to see why. A reporter visiting Anderson's L.A. home no sooner asks a question than his mother, Doris Bowman, shots and laughs. "Tell him 'bout the time I chased you daddy with a shotgun!" (She claims she's not kidding.)
Plenty of milder (but still bizarrow) incidents from the 33-year-old actor's childhood in LA have been filtered into his new WB series All About the Andersons, on which he plays a struggling actor stuck at home with his folks. Anderson's stepfather, Sterling Bowman, 64, who raised him and used to own a chain of plus-size-women's stores, really did padlock the fridge. "Anthony and his friends were eating all the food," says Doris, 50, a phone operator for LA county. "And he did put a pay phone in the living room. Where I got my hair done they had one, so I ordered one. You had to put a quarter in every three minutes." Anderson and his three siblings knew this wasn't normal. "But I realized my family was funny, because nobody ever wanted to leave our house."
He took his share of the fun with him - "He's a character and a half," says his friend, actress Vivica A. Fox - but he prefers to live quietly with his wife, homemaker Alvina Anderson, 32, and Kyra, 7, and Nathan, 3. "I have barbecues, swim in the pool with my babies. I'm a man of simple pleasures." And many calories. "I'm 5'11" and 272 lbs.," he says, patting his gut. "But my weight shifts. Like those continental plates in the ocean."
Fine, so long as he doesn't try to slide out of a promise to his mom. "Anthony told everyone he was gonna buy his mamma a house by the end of the year", says Doris. "By the end of the year! Make sure you print that in your article." |
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