Then there are the other paramedics, played by John Goodman, Tom Sizemore, and Ving Rhames.

NEWYORKER: Bringing Out the Dead

Ving Rhames had to defend himself, his English bulldog and three bull mastiffs against charges the dogs killed a housekeeper while Rhames was out of town.

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It was, and the crowd at the Hammerstein Ballroom roared as Lee Ving of Fear, Rick Nielsen of Cheap Trick, Brad Wilk of Rage Against the Machine and others took the stage.

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With the imperturbable Ving Rhames.

NEWYORKER: Mission: Impossible III

Benjamin is a true star who brings understated and thoughtful sincerity to every line he speaks, Patton is sly and droll, and the entire cast (especially Terrence Howard, Faizon Love, and Ving Rhames) is a delight, but Bryan Barber directs with a music-video indiscipline, making shots with a casual profligacy and bathing them all in caramel light.

NEWYORKER: Idlewild