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We'll visit a "hip-hoppening" lingerie fashion show.
And supermodels discuss the secrets to becoming superstars.
The Urban World Festival, fourth annuals kicking off in New York here this week.
Russell Simmons, you've been involved with it from the beginning four years ago?
RUSSELL SIMMONS, FASHION DESIGNER: That's correct.
TUSH: Yes, well, what I want to say is we're backstage in the fashion show that your wife is involved in. It's, what, her line of clothes?
SIMMONS: That's correct, the Baby Fat lingerie line. It's going to be premiering. She actually has already produced it, and we have in department stores all over the weekend Baby Fat, which is a jean and dress and kind of a dressy sportswear company.
TUSH: Right.
And that company is doing very well. And now we've expounded -- she's expanded on the idea to lingerie.
TUSH: So we've got all these beautiful models who we're going to talk to in a little bit.
SIMMONS: Oh, good. That should be fun.
TUSH: Yes, so we'll just get the guy thing out of the way and then talk to them.
SIMMONS: Yes, get me out of the way.
TUSH: I know you're expecting a phone call from overseas or somewhere -- This guy's busy, busy man, big man in the music business -- and everywhere.
SIMMONS: Well, all right, thank you.
TUSH: OK, thanks a lot.
We're going to go see a movie called "The Replacements" right now. Actually, I saw the movie. It's Keanu Reeves and Academy Award winner Gene Hackman. And a bunch of wacky guys play a football team that, during a strike in 1987, were just what the movie's called, "The Replacements."
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
TUSH (voice-over): When a football players' strike threatens to leave the stadium empty, the owner of the fictional Washington Sentinels brings in a team of replacements, a ragtag bunch of has- beens and never-wases.
Jimmy McGinty has the job of whipping these guys into shape. Academy award winner Gene Hackman wears the coach's hat.
GENE HACKMAN, ACTOR: As an actor, do you have to sort of be the coach of this team of actors? No, I wouldn't go there, I wouldn't touch -- I would never presume to tell another actor, you know, how to perform or how to make a scene work. I think you're better served by maybe just example.
TUSH: But you can't keep the young cast from being excited to share screen time with the legendary Hackman.
KEANU REEVES, ACTOR: I got to act with Gene Hackman on my 35th birthday, so that was, for me, very special.
TUSH: Keanu Reeves is team quarterback Shane Falco, and he packed on 25 pounds to play him.
REEVES: I wanted to look like a quarterback, I wanted to move like a quarterback, and I wanted to sound like a quarterback.
TUSH: Not all the actors took their roles so seriously. There's Jon Favreau as one who seems to have played too many games without a helmet.
JON FAVREAU, ACTOR: I said, if you're going to be in a movie like this, that's the guy I want to play. You don't want to be wrestling with a problem and growing with as a character.
TUSH: Then there's "The Leg," who can kick the ball, but not his bad habits.
RHYS IFANS, ACTOR: My character in the film isn't the fittest of guys. You know, he's let himself go. So my research involved a lot of cigarettes and bars, you know, which is equally hard work.
TUSH: While these guys are great comic relief, you have to have a villain. That's where Brett Cullen comes in handy, as the striking quarterback with an overinflated ego and wallet.
(on camera): Do you like doing a movie when people watch you, they go, "oh, I hate that guy?"
BRETT CULLEN, ACTOR: Yes, I do actually. Because I went to one of the screening at Warner Bros., and they had this audience come in, and I mean, they were hissing, and then afterwards, everything they said, you were are great, we hated your guts, you were terrific, and I'm going, oh, that's good.
TUSH: Now you've met the players, let's see if they can score a touchdown at the box office.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
TUSH: We met Lynette Rice (ph), Miss USA, at the "Coyote Ugly" premiere last week, but we didn't have a real chance to talk to you. But now we do because she's part of this whole big fashion show.
LYNETTE COLE, MISS USA: Yes, I am. I'll be sporting a nice, lovely little lingerie outfit tonight.
TUSH: I can't wait for that.
Was the part of your duties as Miss USA to do fashion shows and all that?
COLE: No, actually this is part of our reward. After, like, a long steady couple of weeks of constantly working, this is something fun for us to do.
TUSH: Oh, OK, so you actually do have a good time when you do this.
COLE: Yes, we have a good time here.
TUSH: What will you be wearing here? Do you know?
COLE: Well, it's a nice baby blue kind of nightgown -- yeah.
TUSH: Well we're going to tune in for that.
COLE: Yeah.
TUSH: All right, well you have a great weekend. Have a good time tonight. Thank you, it's good to talk to you.
COLE: Nice talking to you, too.
TUSH: You know what, a lot of supermodels are becoming superstars. Did you know that?
COLE: Yes.
TUSH: Tyra Banks, who was at the premiere the other day...
COLE: I know.
TUSH: ... she's in "Coyote Ugly," and Jodi Ross is going to tell us about that.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
JODI ROSS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): This is supermodel Heidi Klum, and so's this.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP, "BLOW DRY")
HEIDI KLUM, MODEL/ACTRESS: I think we should get Vincent a girlfriend.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
ROSS: She's hoping for film fame in the soon to be released "Blow Dry."
KLUM: I'm excited. I'm a little nervous.
ROSS (on camera): What are you nervous about?
KLUM: What am I nervous about? How is it going to look? What are people going to say? What are they going to think? And, you know, are they going to recognize me?
ROSS (voice-over): But it's really recognition from Hollywood these models want most.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP, "HIGHER LEARNING")
TYRA BANKS, MODEL/ACTRESS: We got a lot of work to do.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
ROSS: Tyra Banks has been working since 1995, when she made her feature film debut in "Higher Learning." She currently stars in "Coyote Ugly."
JILL BERNSTEIN, ASSOC. EDITOR, "PREMIERE" MAGAZINE: It's a tiny role. Oftentimes, supermodels are just used to sort of spice up the movie. They are -- they just appear because they're beautiful. That's what this role amounts to in "Coyote Ugly."
ROSS: But for Tyra, looks are not enough.
BANKS: You know, people have to leave this movie and go, hey, Tyra did good. Not she did OK, she did good. And that's the only way that I'll continue to work, and I know that and I'm up for the challenge, and that's why I study and take it seriously.
ROSS: Others serious about shifting careers are Amber Valletta, who has a bit part in "What Lies Beneath," and "X-Men" star Rebecca Romijn-Stamos.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP, "X-MEN")
REBECCA ROMIJN-STAMOS, MODEL/ACTRESS: I was afraid to go to school as a child.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
BERNSTEIN: Their clocks are ticking. There's only so much time that a supermodel can be a supermodel before she's got to look toward other things. It is a hard business.
ROSS: Frederique Van Der Wal should know. In the films "54" and "Wild, Wild West," she was seen, but not heard.
FREDERIQUE, MODEL/ACTRESS: I'm not used to being a prop. You would think as a fashion model you would know how to be a prop, but it was hard. And you've seen it actually with the models going into acting that a lot of the roles are not consistent of talking.
ROSS: Frederique will have a lot to say in her new film, "The Venice Project," and Heidi Klum made sure her acting effort was worth it.
KLUM: I wanted to do a small part in a good movie with a lot of good actors around me.
ROSS (on camera): You make a lot of money as a supermodel and not very much money in a small part in your first film. So why bother?
KLUM: Why bother? Because you -- it makes you feel good. You know, it is -- it brings you to a different level and it is a new thing to do.
ROSS (voice-over): So, these women hope to go the way of Andie and Cameron, rather than Cindy.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP, "FAIR GAME")
CINDY CRAWFORD, MODEL/ACTRESS: That was the dumbest thing I've ever seen.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
ROSS: Jodi Ross, CNN Entertainment News, New York.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
TUSH: Up next, Tom Selleck throws his hat into the ring with "Running Mate."
And "G-String Divas" bare all about life in the Champagne Room.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
TUSH: Everybody is saying, how can this be Puff Daddy's mother.
JANICE COMBS, MOTHER OF "PUFF DADDY": Really?
TUSH: You're too young to be his mother. COMBS: Oh, that's very nice to say, thank you.
TUSH: Janice Combs, good to see you.
COMBS: Thank you.
TUSH: What do you got in that bag? I don't care about what you're wearing in the fashion show, I want to know about these. Look at these.
COMBS: These are my babies. This is Misty.
TUSH: How do you tell them apart?
COMBS: This is Jazz (ph). One is bigger than the other.
TUSH: I can't tell them apart.
COMBS: That's are my daughters.
TUSH: Well, yes. Do you carry them everywhere you go?
COMBS: Everywhere I go.
TUSH: Oh, they're sweet. They're sweet.
COMBS: This one is the smallest one...
TUSH: All right.
COMBS: ... and this is the biggest one.
TUSH: I can't tell. But that was a gift from Puffy, right?
COMBS: From Puffy and Jennifer.
TUSH: Oh, yes. What's the story on them?
COMBS: For my birthday.
TUSH: Give me some scoop.
COMBS: That's something you would have to ask them.
TUSH: Oh, you won't tell me.
COMBS: No, I don't tell nothing, sorry.
TUSH: All right. Are you in the fashion show today?.
COMBS: Yes, I'm in the fashion show.
TUSH: Is this what you're wearing, this lovely dress?
COMBS: No, this is my own little ensemble.
TUSH: A very lovely frock, I might add.
COMBS: Well thank you so much. Thank you.
TUSH: OK, Mommy, Mommy Combs.
COMBS: Mama Combs.
TUSH: OK, we're going to meet a group called Lucy Pearl. Have you heard of them?
COMBS: Oh, yes.
TUSH: You have?
COMBS: Definitely.
TUSH: We saw them in Central Park, where they jammed for us.
COMBS: OK.
TUSH: It was sort of a Lucy Pearl Jam...
COMBS: Yes.
TUSH: ... which I'm trying to figure out what that means.
So, you know, what? If you were a mother of somebody in that group, you'd be a mother of pearl.
COMBS: A mother of pearl.
TUSH: It just gets better by the second.
COMBS: But I'm a mother of puff.
TUSH: A mother of puff.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
ROSS (voice-over): The soulful sounds of Lucy Pearl.
(MUSIC)
The members of this talented trio are alumni of some of the most influential black pop bands of the '90s.
(MUSIC)
Raphael Saadiq sang soul and funk with Tony Toni Tone.
(MUSIC)
Dawn Robinson came from the diva girl group En Vogue, and Ali Shaheed Muhammad made music for a Tribe Called Quest.
(MUSIC) Well, there's no stress now, as Lucy Pearl's self-titled album makes its mark on the music charts.
DAWN ROBINSON, LUCY PEARL: As we were recording, I thought: "What are people going to think about this? Are they going to like it?" Because we had so much success with our other groups, it's in the back of your mind, but if it's in the forefront, you'll never put anything out. So you can't allow that kind of pressure to hold you back.
ROSS: Friends for a long time and fans of each other's music, this collaboration came easy.
ALI SHAHEED MUHAMMAD, LUCY PEARL: I just feel like we're making good music.
ROBINSON: But it's nothing that hasn't been done before. It's just right now, I guess, we're the only ones doing it in R&B, hip-hop.
MUHAMMAD: So like a perfect marriage of all forms of music.
ROSS: "Dance Tonight" is the band's first single and was also featured in the film "Love & Basketball." As Lucy Pearl continues to shine, there's really just one question left.
(on camera): What does the name mean?
RAPHAEL SAADIQ, LUCY PEARL: Wow! It doesn't mean absolutely nothing. Nothing. It means buy the record. Buy the record!
(LAUGHTER)
ROSS (voice-over): Jodi Ross, CNN Entertainment News, New York.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
TUSH: Well, we hope you enjoyed our little visit to the Urban World Festival and the behind the scenes at the big fashion show that's coming up. A lot of the models still aren't ready.
We've got to move on, so when we come back from the commercial, we'll be somewhere else.
Still to come, Bunny, Cashmere, Jordan and Ginger let their hair down about the making of "G-String Divas."
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
TUSH: We have left the Urban Fest. I'll tell you, it was a heck of a thing to drag ourselves out of, because we had to come over here to HBO. And this is Miss Bunny. Let's go no further until I introduce her.
MISS BUNNY: Thank you.
TUSH: You are one of the "G-String Divas"... MISS BUNNY: I am.
TUSH: ... HBO is featuring in a 12-part...
MISS BUNNY: Series.
TUSH: ... documentary series that premieres on August 12, 11:00 p.m. Eastern time.
MISS BUNNY: Yes, I'm really excited. This is my first time...
TUSH: Yes, well tell me about it.
MISS BUNNY: This is the first time in my career that anyone has actually been able to hear me speak.
TUSH: Oh, OK.
MISS BUNNY: Normally, I'm just, you know, a sex object. So now I'm a speaking sex object, I guess. So this is going to be cool looking.
TUSH: I'm surprised you just come out and just say that: I'm a sex object.
MISS BUNNY: I love it. That's what I do. If you have to -- if you don't embrace what you do, then it's going to make you unhappy.
I'm actually a feature, so I get on stage and I have a theme with a special costume. And I like to use props. I have a special bunny show that's like a pink, fuzzy bunny outfit where I throw little marshmallow bunnies at people. But my whole gimmick, I think, is that, you know, I went to college, but I have chosen to be a stripper because I legitimately enjoy what I do. And so I end up being a relatively articulate striper.
TUSH: OK, thanks. We're going to be watching.
MISS BUNNY: Thank you.
TUSH: And, you know, I'm very happy for somebody that just says, hey, this is what I do and I like it, OK?
MISS BUNNY: Thank you.
TUSH: We're going to go now with our home video preview with Dennis Michael.
MISS BUNNY: OK.
TUSH: And he's going to tell us about "Reindeer Games."
MISS BUNNY: Oh, yes.
TUSH: It's out on home video preview. Look excited. That's excited. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP, "PRINCESS MONONOKE")
UNIDENTIFIED ACTRESS: What exactly are you here for?
UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR: To see with eyes unclouded.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
DENNIS MICHAEL, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): "Princess Mononoke" is the "Citizen Kane" of the Japanese anime genre, a mythic saga that deals with nothing less than the disconnect between man and nature. The Disney people, who know brilliant animation when they see it, distributed the film in the U.S., complete with a skillfully translated English voice track, with performances by the like of Clare Danes, Minnie Driver and Billy Bob Thornton. Except for the genre's fans, anime is an alien culture to most American audiences. And in this case, it's a pity, because the daring few who seek it out will discover a masterpiece.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP, "REINDEER GAMES")
GARY SINESE, ACTOR: Don't play no reindeer games with me.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
MICHAEL: In "Reindeer Games," Ben Affleck, just out of jail, pretends to be another recently released and freshly dead prisoner, just to get close to Charlize Theron. But her sleazeball brother, played by Gary Sinese, wants the inside information Affleck doesn't really have to pull off a robbery. Got it? No? Doesn't matter. Director John Frankenheimer turns a bad script into a bad movie using good actors. Audiences shouldn't compound the errors by watching it.
See you at the rental counter.
Dennis Michael, CNN Entertainment News, Hollywood.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
TUSH: Joey.
JOEY: Yes.
TUSH: You are the subject of one of the documentaries, right?
JOEY: That is true.
TUSH: I talked to Miss Bunny just a moment ago, but I didn't go into what they show in these documentaries. It's not just an hour's worth of you guys just dancing.
JOEY: No, it's an hour worth of a lot of stuff.
TUSH: Yes, like about how you got into it? JOEY: Yes, different questions, how we started dancing, what we do in our other spare time when we're not working, our thoughts, I guess, and our feelings about the great work we do.
TUSH: See, if I -- the great -- OK, is it great work that you do?
JOEY: Sure.
TUSH: You make people happy.
JOEY: Make people happy. Men money and mayhem.
TUSH: OK, Joey, thank you. We're going to take a break and come back to the HBO party. The show again is called "G-String Divas."
JOEY: That's right.
TUSH: And your episode is on when?
JOEY: I have no idea.
TUSH: Check your listings. We'll be right back.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
TUSH: Here is the undisputed champion of the exotics lounge or something. What the heck -- what is that?
GINGER: Darling, if you have $20, I'll show you. And you'll up my numbers, kid.
TUSH: Is that what it is, 20 bucks for a dance?
GINGER: Darling, I'll take you around the world.
TUSH: That's a lap dance.
GINGER: That's right.
TUSH: This is -- wait a minute now, this is a family show here.
GINGER: Your name is Tush, isn't it?
TUSH: Tush. Let me -- OK, let ask you.
GINGER: Let me feel that. I'll tell you which it is, Tush or Tush.
Maybe we should do like a Donny Osmond, Donny and Marie. Where is the dry ice is what I want to know.
TUSH: You know the other thing, too...
GINGER (singing): I'm a little bit country...
(speaking): Go ahead, Tushie.
TUSH (singing): I'm a little bit rock and roll.
GINGER: I like it.
TUSH: Let's get out of here.
GINGER: OK.
I'm not helping, am I? I don't do this professionally, so I don't really know what you want me to do.
TUSH: All right, no, here's what -- this is really going to throw you...
GINGER: I'm not trying to be difficult, Tush.
TUSH: ... We're going to talk to -- What? I missed that.
We're going to talk to Tom Selleck...
GINGER: Oh, good.
TUSH: ... who's much better looking than me. You'd rather talk to him anyway.
GINGER: No, but he didn't look good with the real short shorts.
TUSH: OK, well he's in a new movie that's on TNT called "Running Mates."
GINGER: OK.
TUSH: He plays a presidential candidate. Does this interest you at all?
GINGER: Sure
TUSH: I can tell.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
LAUREN HUNTER, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): It's that time again -- hats, confetti and lots of cheering for the men who would be president. There's George W. Bush, Al Gore, and the latest candidate, James Reynolds Pryce.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP, "RUNNING MATES")
TOM SELLECK, ACTOR: I accept your nomination for president of the United States.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
HUNTER: "Running Mates" is TNT's timely take on presidential politics. SELLECK: You're the guy, and you're the guy who's supposed to run the country, if you get elected, and that's intimidating.
HUNTER: It's a fictional look at the personal and professional cost of running for the highest office in the land.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP, "RUNNING MATES")
SELLECK: We're prepared to give you 100 hundred million dollars.
UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR: You made a deal, didn't you?
SELLECK: I'll get us where we want to go.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
SELLECK: It deals with the issue of corruption in politics. It deals with the issue of money in politics, without promoting a political solution. This is about corruption in the Democratic party.
HUNTER: Accuracy was a priority for the film's execs. One of the producers was Jimmy Carter's media director. And if you look closely, the on-screen convention takes place in L.A., where real Democrats convene Monday.
But fact or fiction, politics does seem to make strange bedfellows.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP, "RUNNING MATES")
UNIDENTIFIED ACTRESS: We're like a sorority. We've all slept with Jenny's husband.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
HUNTER: Four women impact Selleck's run for office. Laura Linney plays the campaign manager.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP, "RUNNING MATES")
LAURA LINNEY, ACTRESS: I do 1,000 things everyday without telling you to protect you. It's my job.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
HUNTER: Teri Hatcher's a successful fund-raiser and the candidate's Hollywood connection.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP, "RUNNING MATES")
TERI HATCHER, ACTRESS: Those fickle, airhead celebrities you like to look down on, their money is hard to come by and easy to lose.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
HUNTER: Faye Dunaway is a longtime political fixture. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP, "RUNNING MATES")
FAYE DUNAWAY, ACTRESS: You're giving in to those special interest bastards you fought your whole career.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
HUNTER: And Nancy Travis is the patient wife.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP, "RUNNING MATES")
NANCY TRAVIS, ACTRESS: Gracias. Arigato.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
HUNTER: Selleck and Travis were wed on-screen once before, in "Two Men and a Little Lady."
SELLECK: We were able to kind of speak the kind of shorthand that I think a husband and a wife do.
HUNTER: And his guest appearance as Monica's one-time love interest on "Friends" has garnered an Emmy nod for Selleck.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP, "RUNNING MATES")
HATCHER: I've slept with everybody, and Pryce was the best.
TRAVIS: Thank you, Shawna, for defending my husband.
HATCHER: Anytime. It's for America.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
HUNTER: And will America tune in for TNT's political coverage?
SELLECK: I just know we'll be funnier than the conventions.
HUNTER: Lauren Hunter, CNN Entertainment News, Hollywood.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
TUSH: Jordan is another one of the "G-String Divas"...
JORDAN: Yes.
TUSH: ... or maybe the "G-String Diva," I'm not sure.
JORDAN: Oh, no, there's plenty of them.
TUSH: Yes, OK.
JORDAN: There's plenty of them. There's a lot of them also in Florida, a lot of them everywhere.
TUSH: Where is your base of operation? JORDAN: Right now I live in Florida.
TUSH: Oh, OK.
JORDAN: I live in Plantation.
TUSH: You live on a plantation?
JORDAN: That's the name of the city.
TUSH: Oh, I don't get around much.
TUSH: Well we look forward to seeing the series. As we mentioned earlier, it starts on August 12.
JORDAN: Yes, it does.
TUSH: At 11:00 p.m.
JORDAN: Yes, it does.
TUSH: On HBO.
JORDAN: Yes, it does.
TUSH: And we thank you for talking with us.
JORDAN: Thank you very much.
TUSH: And that's our show. That's SHOWBIZ THIS WEEK. And we've got to go.
JORDAN: Thank you.
TUSH: We'll see you next time.
JORDAN: I hope so.
TUSH: I definitely hope so.