{"id":9887,"date":"2010-04-22T14:29:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T21:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/?p=9887"},"modified":"2010-04-22T14:29:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-22T21:29:00","slug":"omaha-actor-uses-miami-role-to-raise-money-for-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/2010\/04\/omaha-actor-uses-miami-role-to-raise-money-for-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"Omaha Actor Uses &#8216;Miami&#8217; Role To Raise Money For Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Actor <b>John Beasley<\/b> returned to his hometown of Omaha, Nebraska for the screening of his recent appearance in the <i>CSI: Miami<\/i> episode <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/episodes\/miami\/season8\/backfire.shtml\">&#8220;Backfire&#8221;<\/a>&#8212;and to raise money to support the community.<\/p>\n<p>\n<!--more-->In the episode, Beasley played the grandfather of a young man who was killed in a house fire. &#8220;The start of this episode this character is emotionally distraught because he&#8217;s lost his grandson,&#8221; the actor told Action 3 News. &#8220;I saw this kid laying on the gurney and I thought this could be my grandson.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nOmaha locals who packed a pizzeria to watch the episode were shocked to find out Beasley&#8217;s character was a &#8220;hapless villain&#8221;, but they were very supportive of the actor. &#8220;It&#8217;s just really exciting that we can be together and be here to see our wonderful friend up there on a wonderful show,&#8221; said <i>Miami<\/i> fan <b>Dorene Sherman<\/b>. People were also supportive of the John Beasley Theater, which raised some money at the pizzeria to help local kids.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe theater is a way for kids to perform, but it&#8217;s also a way to keep them off the streets. &#8220;The kids are interested in the arts even the ones that are gang-banging it. I&#8217;m getting screen plays and scripts from guys in prison,&#8221; Beasley said. He hopes to expand the theater and give even more young people a place to call home. &#8220;We do plan on eventually having a presence in north Omaha, right in the heart of the community and being very visible there,&#8221; he explained. &#8220;I think it will mean a lot, cause I think I can also bring them hope.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nYou can watch a short video with the actor below:<\/p>\n<p>\n<center><script type='text\/javascript' src='http:\/\/www.action3news.com\/global\/video\/videoplayer.js?rnd=223161;hostDomain=www.action3news.com;playerWidth=400;playerHeight=340;isShowIcon=true;clipId=4716815;flvUri=;partnerclipid=;adTag=null;enableAds=false;landingPage=http%253A%252F%252Fwww.action3news.com%252Fglobal%252FCategory.asp%253Fc%253D170799;islandingPageoverride=false;playerType=POPUP_EMBEDDEDscript'><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actor John Beasley returned to his hometown of Omaha, Nebraska for the screening of his&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2907],"tags":[2990],"class_list":["post-9887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-csi-m","tag-guest-stars"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"Rachel","author_link":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/author\/rachel\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/categories\/csi-m\/\" rel=\"category tag\">CSI: Miami<\/a>","tag_info":"CSI: Miami","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9887"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9889,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9887\/revisions\/9889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}