He’s the guy who could sell Calvin Klein underwear to just about anyone.

But can he drive, chip and putt?

Absolutely, provided the wind isn’t messing things up.

Mark Wahlberg is among several celebrities playing in this weekend’s Outback Steakhouse Pro-Am at TPC Tampa Bay.

The annual charity event pairs celebrity and amateur partners with professionals during real tournament play. Pros play for a $1.7 million purse, with $255,000 going to the winner. Celebs play for bragging rights. (Read full story …)

Lake Bell has joined the cast of Mark Wahlberg’s HBO comedy How To Make It In America, says The Hollywood Reporter.

The actress, who guest-starred in the pilot, has been cast as a regular in the series, which focuses on the attempts of twentysomethings Ben (Bryan Greenberg) and Cam (Victor Rasuk) to hustle their way through New York in pursuit of the American dream.

Wahlberg, Stephen Levinson and Entourage’s Rob Weiss will produce the project, which has been scripted by Ian Edelman.

Bell is currently filming an untitled romantic comedy for Nancy Meyers. She has previously appeared alongside Eva Longoria in Over Her Dead Body and opposite Colin Farrell in Pride And Glory.
Source: Digital Spy

Mark Wahlberg is a Francophile. And, apparently, a Fey-ophile. Not to mention a Carell-ophile.

Wahlberg and James Franco are leading the pack as the latest bold-faced names flocking to the Steve Carell and Tina Fey-starring big-screen comedy Date Night.

According to Variety, Gossip Girl Leighton Meester, rapper Common, Oscar nominee Taraji P. Henson, SNL utility player Kristen Wiig and Jimmi Simpson (aka David Letterman’s erstwhile intern Lyle and It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia scene-stealer) round out the funnybone-tickling cast. (Read full story …)

Look what I picked up! Too excited to keep his presents in the bag, 3-year-old Michael Wahlberg showed off his new cars after visiting Tom’s Toy Store with dad Mark Wahlberg on Saturday.

Mark and fiancée Rhea Durham are also parents to daughter Ella Rae, 5 ½, and baby Brendan Joseph, 6 ½ months.

Next up for Mark, 37, is the big screen adaptation of The Lovely Bones, due out in December.
Source: Celebrity Baby Blog

GALLERY LINKS:
• Candids from 2009 – 04-04 – Leaving Tom’s Toy Store in Beverly Hills

If there was ever an actor to play dark and brooding it’s Christian Bale hands down. He’s just signed on to the PRISONERS project alongside Mark Wahlberg and (potentially) Bryan Singer.

This is a creepy one -

After his 6-year-old daughter and her friend are kidnapped, a small-town carpenter butts heads with a young, brash detective in charge of the investigation. The father is a Bible-reading, deer-hunting survivalist. The cop, meanwhile, can’t wait to get to the city. Feeling failed by the law, the father captures the man he believes responsible and begins to torture him in a desperate attempt to find out what he did with the girls, whom he’s convinced are still alive.

First, is Bale the father or the kidnapper? Which one is Wahlberg? It sounds creepy and could be really good. The spec script has yet to be financed but Bale is just one more clog in the machine for Endeavor who is trying to get this one to go.
Source: IESB

Mickey Rourke and Mark Wahlberg have stepped out in support of their boxing heroes.

The two actors appeared on the red carpet in Hollywood ahead of a press conference for British boxer Ricky Hatton and his Filipino rival Manny Pacquiao, who will go head-to-head in a huge fight in Vegas in May.

The Happening star Mark, who portrays boxer “Irish” Mickey Ward in the upcoming flick The Fighter, arrived with Pacquiao to be greeting by screaming boxing fans.

Mickey – who will next be seen in crime drama The Informers – was nominated for an Oscar for his lead role in The Wrestler.
Source: The AP

I just uploaded some recent candids of Mark, one album of Mark chatting with his friends and another of him shopping with Ella in Los Angeles. Enjoy

GALLERY LINKS:
• Candids from 2009 – 03-21 – Shopping with Ella at American Girl
• Candids from 2009 – 03-23 – Talking with friends in Beverly Hills

Back on March 6 it was announced Mark Wahlberg was attached to a new film called Prisoners from first-time writer Aaron Guzikowski. The story centers on a Boston man who turns vigilante after his daughter and her best friend are kidnapped.

At the time no director was attached and I said it sounded a lot like Wahlberg’s film Max Payne and a couple of commenters referenced Taken, the recent box-office success starring Liam Neeson. I didn’t necessarily think the film sounded all that interesting since we have had so many films of its ilk recently, but apparently the script is something Hollywood is hounding and has been compared to The Silence of the Lambs and Seven and over the weekend Entertainment Weekly dropped word that Bryan Singer (Superman Returns) may be eying the film as his next feature. (Read full story …)

Pride of Dot Mark Wahlberg will be on Extra tonight, talking candidly about his rise to fame and some of his more foolish, youthful choices.

“I made a lot of bad mistakes when I was younger,” Marky Mark admits, in a video on the show’s site. “When I was 17, I got sent to an adult prison and, you know, that was not where I wanted to be.” He remembers being in jail, watching his brother Donnie blow up on TV with New Kids on the Block. He’d passed on joining the massively popular boy band, “which I didn’t think was a cool thing to be involved with,” he admitted. (Read full story …)

Mark Wahlberg licks his lips with anticipation for his hot order! The actor gets take-out from Madeo restaurant in Beverly Hills, CA.

GALLERY LINKS:
• Candids from 2009 – 03-07 – Picking up take-out from Madeo restaurant