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Bow Wow Takes "Lessons" | Entertainment | BET.com

Posted Feb. 26, 2008 -- Bow Wow, Evan Ross, and Chi McBride will star in the indie black comedy "Driving Lessons," according to the Hollywood Reporter.

Max Thieriot ("Kit Kittredge: An American Girl") will play the religious, right-wing teenage son of a woman given a second chance at her unhappy marriage to Jack (Dermot Mulroney) after losing her memory. It conveniently helps her forget an interracial affair with her burly next-door neighbor Simon, played by McBride.

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Selma Blair, in final negotiations to join the cast, will play a sarcastic lesbian high school teacher having an affair with a student (Madeline Zima). Anwar will play Jack's sexy, power-crazed co-worker, and Brittany Robertson is cast as his sexually adventurous daughter.

Ross will play Simon's son, and actor-rapper Bow Wow and Jermaine Williams will play wannabe thugs who complicate everyone's lives. Filming begins next month in Los Angeles.

Whoopi Beds QVC

The View" cohost Whoopi Goldberg is launching her own line of bedding though the shopping network QVC, featuring coordinating sheet sets, pillows and throws.

My bed is as versatile as my clothing; it's like my favorite pair of jeans, a glimpse into the inner me," Goldberg said in a statement. "When people see it, they see it as an extension of me.

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