MONTREAL — Six years ago, Dwayne Johnson was sleeping on a soiled mattress he had hauled from a Dumpster in Calgary, finally quitting with $7 to his name when he failed to catch on with the Canadian Football League?s Calgary Stampeders. (more…)

Byte This! Starts up, and Kevin Kelly and Fink welcome us to the show. They talk
about the Mets Game tonight, and that Fink will be going. They say that they are
glad to be back at the Byte This studio, as they did not do Byte This last week,
due to obvious reasons. (more…)

Five years ago, he was a down-and-out semi-pro football player who slept on a dirty mattress and had only $7 to his name. Today, at the tender age of 29, Dwayne Douglas Johnson (aka The Rock) is one of the most recognizable athletes since Michael Jordan. His image is plastered on everything from T-shirts and Web sites to Halloween masks. He has penned a New York Times best seller, The Rock Says…, and reportedly earns $15 million a year. He is currently featured in Universal’s The Mummy Returns as the villainous assassin Scorpion King, and is also starring in the scheduled prequel to the Mummy series, The Scorpion King. The word in Hollywood is that the sculpted, athletic sex symbol is America’s next great action hero. (more…)

Interview courtesy of ETonline.com

“It’s ‘Indiana Jones’ and ‘The Magnificent Seven’ …”

May 12, 2001

Forget the mummy — THE ROCK is returning to reprise his role in his very own feature, ‘The Scorpion King.’ ET caught up with the man on the set!

ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT: With ‘ The Mummy Returns ,’ your star is arriving. What’s going to happen to your wrestling career? (more…)

COULD THIS BE THE NEXT ACTION HERO? THE WWF champion put his enormous toe in the water last year with a supporting part in The Mummy Returns (in which he turned into a giant arachnid and got squished by Brendan Fraser). Now he’ll reprise the role for a spin-off prequel set in 3000 B.C. “You get to see how my (more…)