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Rhode Island father-daughter team chosen for Amazing Race
07/18/2006 01:00 AM EDT
A pair of Rhode Islanders will be in the upcoming season of The Amazing Race, the CBS reality show in which teams race around the world for a $1- million prize.
Among the 12 teams competing are Warwick father and daughter Duke Marcoccio, 52, and Lauren Marcoccio, 26.
A spokesman for CBS said contracts signed by the Marcoccios prohibit them from talking to the press until they are either eliminated from The Amazing Race or the show is over.
According to CBS press materials, Duke Marcoccio owns a tour company and Lauren Marcoccio is a speech and language pathologist.
"When Lauren told her family she was gay, her father didn't react well to the news, and the two were estranged for several years," reads a CBS profile of the team.
"They are currently building their relationship and hope the Race will help them recapture the closeness they once shared."
The Amazing Race, which is filmed and edited in advance, is moving to a new time slot on CBS, Sundays at 8 p.m. It's scheduled to be on the air in September.
Punk-pop princess Avril Lavigne has married a fellow Canadian singer-songwriter, according to published reports.
Lavigne married Deryck Whibley, the guitarist and frontman for the band Sum 41, on Saturday, at a private estate near Santa Barbara, People magazine reported on its Web site.
Lavigne wore a Vera Wang gown, carried white roses and was walked down the aisle by her father. Lavigne, 21, and Whibley, 26, exchanged vows under an awning covered in white flowers.
The pair have been dating since early 2004 and bought a house in Los Angeles later that year. They became engaged in Venice, Italy, in 2005 while Lavigne was on a European tour.
If the new legal drama Shark fails to draw an audience, the salesmanship of actor James Woods will not be the reason.
Woods, who grew up in Rhode Island, is cast as a bombastic defense attorney-turned-prosecutor on the series that airs this fall on CBS. He spent Saturday promoting Shark to the nation's TV critics like his mortgage depended on it.
Why is he switching from movies to TV? "I'm always offered (films) to do," Woods explains, "but I don't want to play the middle-aged guy in a suit who is the head of the evil corporation."
What does he think of lawyers today? "The California Bar Association has an ethics hotline -- do you know about this?" he said, incredulous. "You need a hotline to tell you whether you're right or wrong? You don't have a conscience? How about a conscience? They're cheaper."
Compiled by Andy Smith from staff and wire reports.
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