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Cuba Gooding Jr., Blythe Danner make leap to TV

WHO Cuba Gooding Jr.

YOU KNOW HIM FROM The movies "Boyz 'N the Hood," "Jerry Maguire," "Radio" and "American Gangster"

NEW ROLE Gooding has taken his first TV role in more than a decade, signing on to star in a movie for TNT. He will play the title role in "Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story," a biography of neurosurgeon and bestselling author Ben Carson. The movie will tell the life...

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