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November 03, 2006 @ 2:58 pm
Denzel Washington Credits Mentors in New Book
"It's a celebration of the people behind the people those who don't get the recognition who influence the Bill Clintons or the Jimmy Carters or the George Steinbrenners of the world," said Washington.
right A Hand To Guide Me, which gathers together essays by more than 70 entertainment, sports, business and political leaders, features both Cinton and Carter, as well as New York Yankees owner, John Mellencamp, Whoopi Goldberg, Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick, and others, who tell the stories of their own childhood mentors.
In Washington's own story, he writes that he took inspiration as a child from a counselor at the Boys Club in his hometown of Mount Vernon, N.Y., a high school English teacher who had students read the New York Times every morning. He also found a mentor in a barber at a shop where he earned money sweeping.
"We all have the potential to help out and inspire young people and to make an impression upon them," Washington said.
The book is a fundraiser for the Atlanta-based Boys and Girls Clubs of America, with 60 percent of the proceeds going to the Boys and Girls Clubs, and a quarter of that going to his childhood club in Mount Vernon.
Washington, who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 2002 for Training Day and for Best Supporting Actor in 1989's Glory, next appears in Deja Vu, a science fiction thriller that opens Nov. 22.
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