Tuesday, July 10, 2012
St. Louis native, Frontenac resident talks about a life in two different major cities.
Part II. Eric Rhone concludes the second of two interviews with the Ladue-Frontenac Patch. Rhone has been Cedric the Entertainment's business manager and chief contract negotiator his entire professional career. Patch: Let’s talk about your role in tourism in Missouri. Rhone: Yes, I am an official Tourism Ambassador for the state of Missouri. I was appointed by Jay Nixon, our governor and this is my fourth year. We carry the torch for Missouri around the nation and around the world. On our new show, Soul Man, every episode show opens with a shot of the Arch and the landscape of downtown. In most of our episodes, you will find Cedric in a Mizzou shirt, or a SLU shirt or a Cardinals jersey or SEMO or Rams. This is a great way to help …
Monday, July 9, 2012
Eric Rhone talks about meeting up and becoming a lifetime friend of a Hollywood Star.
Eric Rhone is 47 and lives in Frontenac with his wife and three children. Eric graduated Normandy High School and is the business manager for Hollywood’s Cedric the Entertainer. Cedric is a Berkeley High graduate and the two met up as students at Southeast Missouri State University. They both launched business careers; Cedric started playing all the local clubs including the Funny Bone. Finally one day they shipped all their clothes to Hollywood and the rest of history. Patch conducted an extensive one on one interview with this fascinating figure from the world of entertainment. This is part one of a two-part series. The concluding interview is Tuesday on Patch: Cedric the Entertainer's Soul Man bus toured the Fair St. Louis grounds last …
Sunday, July 8, 2012
Cedric the Entertainer's manager, producer and friend for life has a great story to tell.
Whatever you do, come back Monday and Tuesday and meet Eric Rhone, home grown talent in the world of entertainment. By his own admission, he was nothing more than a knucklehead at Normandy High School. But he met up with Cedric the Entertainer while vying for dorm space at Southeast Missouri State University in Cape Girardeau, and as they say, the rest is history. Rhone has gone on to a highly successful career as Cedric's executive director, producer, contract negotiator and confidant. They shuttle back and forth between here and Hollywood like we drive back and forth to Clayton. His family still calls Frontenac home. The interview has been broken into two parts, starting Monday morning on the Ladue-Frontenac Patch. Rhone's passion for …
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