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DEADLINE.com's Mike Fleming Jr. reported MLB free agent JOSH HAMILTON’s life story “has been acquired and will be turned into a feature film by Relativity Media.” Relativity also has closed a deal “for rights to the book” that Hamilton co-authored, “Beyond Belief: Finding The Strength To Come Back” (DEADLINE.com, 11/15).

GARDEN VARIETY: Thursday night’s episode of NBC’s “30 Rock” featured network exec Jack Donaghy, played by ALEC BALDWIN, arriving to work and being laughed at by all the black people he runs into after they learn his name is “Jack Donaghy.” Jack says to a black female postal worker, “Why am I suddenly an object of derision in your community? I’ve championed diversity on NBC. I mean, we’ve got football. That’s pretty black, right?” The postal worker tells Jack that the name “Jack Donaghy” is the “bad guy from Tracy Jordan’s ‘Aunt Phatso’ movie.” As Jack is watching clips from Tracy’s movie, he asks Liz Lemon, played by TINA FEY, “Lemon, do you think I’m a villain?” Liz replied, “I have heard you say, ‘Guards, seize him.’” Jack said, “I was at a Knicks game. They needed to stop the clock” (“30 Rock,” NBC, 11/15).

FALL FROM GRACE: In Boston, Bob Hobler notes former tennis player BOB HEWITT was “suspended indefinitely” from the Int’l Tennis Hall of Fame on Thursday “following a lengthy investigation into allegations that he sexually abused underage girls he coached.” HOF CEO MARK STENNING said, “As of today, his plaque will be removed from the Hall of Fame” (BOSTON GLOBE, 11/16).

CHARITY STRIPE
: Patriots DT VINCE WILFORK teamed with Eastern Bank to launch and promote a holiday Toys for Tots campaign. It is in partnership with the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve’s Toys for Tots program (BOSTON HERALD, 11/16)….Players from the NHL Rangers and Flyers will play in a charity exhibition game to benefit victims of Hurricane Sandy. The event, called “Operation Hat Trick,” will be played at Caesars Atlantic City at Boardwalk Hall Nov. 24 at 7:00pm ET. All proceeds from the event will go to the Empire State Relief Fund, the N.J. Relief Fund and the American Red Cross (N.Y. POST, 11/16).

NAMES: USA Track & Field Thursday awarded Olympic distance runner LOPEZ LOMONG its Humanitarian of the Year Award (OREGONLIVE.com, 11/15)....U.S. women's Olympic gymnastics team members GABBY DOUGLAS, MCKAYLA MARONEY, ALY RAISMAN, JORDYN WIEBER, and KYLA ROSS on Thursday got a "personal audience with President BARACK OBAMA" while on tour in DC (AP, 11/15)....The National Football Foundation Thursday announced ESPN commentator RECE DAVIS will emcee the 55th NFF Annual Awards Dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria in N.Y. on Dec. 4 (NFF)....A 700-acre campus “being developed for a Charlotte area Girl Scouts council has been named” in honor of the late DALE EARNHARDT after the Dale Earnhardt Foundation awarded the council $2M for the project (SPORTINGNEWS.com, 11/15)….The Nevada Athletic Commission on Thursday “approved a promoter’s license” for entertainer 50 CENT pending final paperwork that includes two years’ worth of tax returns (LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL, 11/16)….Former WNBAer CHAMIQUE HOLDSCLAW is "in jail" after being "charged with aggravated assault, criminal damage to property and reckless conduct." Holdsclaw allegedly fired a gun into the car of her ex-girlfriend, WNBA Shock F JENNIFER LACY, after bashing its windows in with a baseball bat (AJC.com, 11/16).

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