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Hollywood action hero Vin Diesel has apparently sparked up a romance with US TV presenter Maria Menounos. The 60;XXX61; star first struck up a bond with Maris Menounos when she interviewed him on the news show 60;Access Hollywood,61; but the pair were recently spotted at a performance of the musical 60;Chicago61; in New Yor (www.hollywoodbackwash.com....in-diesel/)
Factoid #1 Vin Diesel keeps his hair completely shaved; no one knows what kind of hair he has whether curly or straight and without that clue, it's hard to identify his ethnicity. But this is just how Vin Diesel wants i (racerelations.about.com....Diesel.htm)
Factoid #4 The source of his name: "Vin" is short for his last name Vincent . "Diesel" is a nickname he received from Chuck Norris when they met in 1993 ("Diesel" being a reference to someone with a very defined, toned body) (racerelations.about.com....Diesel.htm)
Factoid #5 As a boy, Vin Diesel was a skilled breakdancer who appeared in an instructional breakdancing video; he also appeared as a dancer in music videos for his cousin, rapper Kwam (racerelations.about.com....Diesel.htm)
Learn more interesting fact about this mysterious boundary-breaker, including how he got the name Vin Diesel (hint: that's not the name he was born with), and why he keeps his head completely bald, by visiting the Mixed Race Celebrity Image Gallery (racerelations.about.com....diesel.htm)
New Vin Diesel Movie Hit Financial Trouble Actor Vin Diesel 's new movie hit financial trouble and had to be bailed out by a completion-bond company. The new film, Babylon A.D., also was behind schedule and Vin Diesel himself may be to blame for falling behind filming schedule because of his ego problems. Babylon A.D. was so over budget that the sci-fi film was facing a disaster until West Hollywood's Film Finances Inc. stepped in and loaned $1.5 million for upcoming scenes to be filmed in Prague and Paris. . (click to read more (www.celebrityne....in-diesel/)
Diesel worked as a bouncer in reputed clubs in New York such as Tunnel and Mars, a job profile he stuck by for nine years. He earned the name Vin Diesel while being a bouncer; he claimed he changed his name because bouncers prefer using fake names. Vin Diesel was first spotted in the film Awakenings were his role was that of a hospital orderly. He soon re-appeared in a full fledged role in the film produced by himself, titled Multi-Facial, in 1994; the film was well received at the prestigious 1995 Cannes Film Festival. The film according to him was semi-biographical, as it revolved around a small time, multi-ethnic actor dreaming of making it big in Hollywood and facing discrimination due to his race (popular.ebay.com....iesel.html)
Co-star Alexa Davalos says: "Vin's a huge motivator. The actors would sit around the set, and Vin would tell us, 'This is what happened to your character,' and 'Your character belongs here in the scheme of things,' and he was so passionate it was contagious." (www.usaweekend.com....iesel.html)
A writer for Alternet says, "In what seems to be Hollywood's version of the one -drop rule, the majority of multicultural actors who are part African-American play African-American characters, not biracial, white, or characters of different ethnicities." Vin Diesel agrees with this assessment. As a result, he enjoys having a "kind of ambiguous, chameleon-like ethnicity," he says. He also acknowledges that it is this ambiguity that has enabled him to play a wide range of characters and ethnicities (from an Italian American, to a black lead, to ethnically ambiguous characters) (racerelations.about.com....Diesel.htm)
The world is full of people who spent chunks of their childhoods playing "Dungeons Dragons ", but hardly any played quite as cool a version as Vin Diesel did. The son of a theater director, Diesel grew up in a Manhattan housing development reserved for actors, dancers and others in the arts. "The way we played was very theatrical," he says. "When we had maps, the maps were pieces of art, and when the players had to do something , they performed it. I was Melkor." Diesel jumps up and announces the name in a voice so deep it could jiggle bedrock. He grins ear to ear. "When an arrow flew past your head in our game, it flew past your head! " (www.usaweekend.com....iesel.html)
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