PGA Tour Humana Challenge
When: Today-Sunday. Gates open at 8 a.m. First tee times are at 8:40 a.m.
Where: La Quinta Country Club, PGA West Nicklaus Course and PGA West Palmer Course.
Celebrities: Morgan Freeman, Don Cheadle, Smokey Robinson, Alice Cooper, Craig T. Nelson, Billy Crudup, Lucas Black and Julius Erving
Tickets: $25-$175
Information: (760) 564-7100 or www.pgatour.com
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If there's one person you want to talk movies with, it's a silver screen legend like Morgan Freeman. So, when he suggests some must-see flicks, it's worth jotting down a few notes.
“I just saw ‘Hanna.' Have you seen that movie? The movie is so well-made. The music, the photography, the acting; it's all great,” he says of the underrated Saoirse Ronan movie.
“And, have you seen ‘Anonymous?' Oh, don't miss that one. Do. Not. Miss. ‘Anonymous.' Another well-made movie; very well-done,” he says.
So, how does a man, who seemingly never stops working, find the time to watch so many movies? “The Academy sends them out and I get a chance to sit and watch them. Sometimes I do a marathon, and I'll watch three movies in one day.”
This weekend, Freeman is one of nine celebrities participating in the PGA's Humana Challenge, along with fellow actors Don Cheadle, Craig T. Nelson and Billy Crudup. Last Sunday Freeman received the Cecil B. DeMille Lifetime Achievement Award at the Golden Globes.
“I'm getting a lot of end-of-the-career awards, that lifetime achievement stuff. I'm beginning to feel like I'm being told, ‘OK, time to hang up your cleats and sit down.'
“You have to get up when they give these things to you and say, ‘Now, wait a minute; I don't consider myself done yet.'”
Not by a long shot.
