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Patrick Stewart - Stewart Fishburne Compete For Prestigious Tony Award

PATRICK STEWART and LAURENCE FISHBURNE will go head-to-head for the Best Actor award at the annual Tony Awards in New York next month (Jun08).

The ceremony will see stage actors, directors and performances compete for America's annual top theatre awards, which will be hosted by Whoopi Goldberg on 7 June (08) at the famous Radio City Music Hall.

Star Trek legend Stewart and Fishburne have been nominated alongside British actors Ben Daniels, Mark Rylance and Rufus Sewell.

The female leads battling it out for Best Stage Actress include Eve Best, Deanna Dunagan, Kate Fleetwood, S. Epatha Merkerson and Amy Morton.

The coveted Best Play Award nominations are August: Osage County, Rock 'n' Roll, The Seafarer, and The 39 Steps.

Musical favourites Grease and Gypsy are also up for gongs in the Best Musical Revival category, and Shakespeare's MACbeth and comedy Boeing-Boeing will be competing for the Best Play Revival award.

Best Director For A Play nominees are Maria Aitken for The 39 Steps, Conor MCPherson for The Seafarer, Anna D. Shapiro for August: Osage County, and Matthew Warchus for Boeing-Boeing.

Other categories featuring at the 2008 Tony Awards include Best Costume, Best Lighting Design, Best Sound, Best Choreography and Best Orchestrations.

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NEW YORK - Patrick Swayze is going back to work.

The "Dirty Dancing" actor, who was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer earlier this year, will begin shooting his new A&E series "The Beast" in Chicago this summer.

The cable network says it has ordered 13 episodes of the one-hour drama.

It stars the 55-year-old Swayze as an unorthodox FBI agent who trains - and hazes - his new partner, portrayed by Travis Fimmel.

It is scheduled to premiere early next year.

The actor shot the pilot for "The Beast" last December, months before his cancer diagnosis surfaced in news reports.

"I have searched for quite a long time to find a character that is this multi-layered, unpredictable and downright entertaining, as well as a project this current and cutting-edged," Swayze said in a statement.

"There are constant twists and turns, because we never know what this 'Charles Barker' is going to do next! Not only is the show driven by plot, but as important, it's character driven," Swayze said.

Swayze's representative, Annett Wolf, confirmed to The Associated Press in early March that he was undergoing treatment for pancreatic cancer.

Meanwhile, his physician Dr. George Fisher issued a hopeful statement, saying Swayze had "a very limited amount of disease" and appeared "to be responding well to treatment."

Wolf declined comment Tuesday. A&E spokesman Dan Silberman said the network wasn't commenting beyond its news release announcing the greenlit series and statement from executive Bob DeBitetto, who professed to be "thrilled to have Patrick on board."

The New York Times reported earlier this week that Swayze will likely continue his treatment during four months of filming in Chicago. In an interview, DeBitetto told the Times that Swayze had benefitted by care including chemotherapy and experimental drugs.

"Obviously we've had candid conversations with him and his doctors, and we have a fairly high degree of expectation that Patrick will be good to work a full production schedule," said DeBitetto, adding, "No one is using words like cured or remission or miracle."

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