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"I FEEL like more of a tennis player than an actress," said Elisabeth Shue, and it's not just because it's been two years since the Oscar nominee has appeared in a theatrical release. Shue, 43, who was up for a best actress award for her 1995 role in Leaving Las Vegas, is training to become a pro tennis player. "I don't think I'll be playing at the U.S. Open," Shue (right) said. "But by September, I'd like to be competing professionally, even at the lowest level."... LIL' Romeo isn't so lil' anymore. The 6-foot son of Master P, a platinum-selling rapper in his own right, is a junior point guard at Beverly Hills High, where he goes by his given name, PERCY MILLER. He averaged 13.9 points and 5.6 rebounds this season, and last week made an oral commitment to USC for 2008.... Brian Bosworth blazed a trail for chemically enhanced former NFL linebackers in Hollywood, and Bill Romanowski is following it. Romanowski, 41, who retired in 2003 and has admitted using steroids and HGH, has roles in two upcoming movies. He'll play a gay cowboy in Wieners, a comedy starring Jenny McCarthy about three friends who travel cross-country in a giant hot-dog-shaped vehicle. (It will be out later this year.) He'll also portray an air traffic controller in the big-screen version of Get Smart, due out in 2008.

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