Timothy Bella

Virginia

Journalist and author of BARKLEY. Writing 2nd book. Past: @washingtonpost. TCU/Columbia alum, Springsteen enthusiast. The Rock once gave me a hat when I was 10.

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How John Cena became the last great crossover wrestling star

1 month ago | wral.com | Timothy Bella

FILE — The actor and wrestler John Cena bares it all for one of the most talked about moments of the 2024 Academy Awards ceremony in Los Angeles on March 10, 2024. As his in-ring career draws to a close, the most popular stars in World Wrestling Entertainment is trying out a new role: the bad guy. (Amir Hamja/The New York Times)CIERNE, Slovakia — John Cena knew his time was up. For more than 20 years, Cena was a symbol of excellence and inevitability in professional wrestling.
Chip Roy Doesn’t Care What Anyone Thinks. Not Even Donald Trump.

Mar 5, 2025 | texasmonthly.com | Timothy Bella

Chip Roy picks at what is left of his tacos al pastor and looks on quietly as he ponders how he’s going to describe Donald Trump. It’s eleven days before the 2024 election, and I’m playing a word-association game with the U.S. congressman from Central Texas over a Friday lunch at Matt’s El Rancho.
Anthony Mackie is finally starring in an Anthony Mackie movie

Feb 14, 2025 | pressherald.com | Timothy Bella

NEW YORK – Anthony Mackie really wanted to make a good first impression on Harrison Ford. So when his co-star accepted his dinner invitation during their first week filming “Captain America: Brave New World” in Atlanta, Mackie asked Ford what he liked to eat. “I would really like some really clean Italian food,” he says Ford told him. Mackie was perplexed: What the hell is clean Italian food?
Anthony Mackie is finally starring in an Anthony Mackie movie

Feb 11, 2025 | torontosun.com | Timothy Bella

So when his co-star accepted his dinner invitation during their first week filming “Captain America: Brave New World” in Atlanta, Mackie asked Ford what he liked to eat. “I would really like some really clean Italian food,” he says Ford told him. Mackie was perplexed: What the hell is clean Italian food? Over the next week Mackie – a first-time MCU headliner, trying to impress a blockbuster legend – asked friends, acquaintances, anyone if they knew what “clean Italian food” meant. Was it fish?
From sidekick to superhero

Feb 11, 2025 | stripes.com | Timothy Bella

Anthony Mackie, shown here in “Captain America: Brave New World,” was informally made the next Captain America at the end of 2019’s “Avengers: Endgame.” His character cemented his new status when he finally donned the stars and stripes at the end of “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier,” a 2021 Disney+ series. (Marvel Studios ) Anthony Mackie really wanted to make a good first impression on Harrison Ford.
Anthony Mackie, now Captain America, is finally in an Anthony Mackie movie

Feb 9, 2025 | washingtonpost.com | Timothy Bella

NEW YORKAnthony Mackie really wanted to make a good first impression on Harrison Ford. So when his co-star accepted his dinner invitation during their first week filming “Captain America: Brave New World” in Atlanta, Mackie asked Ford what he liked to eat. “I would really like some really clean Italian food,” he says Ford told him. Mackie was perplexed: What the hell is clean Italian food?
Anthony Mackie is finally starring in an Anthony Mackie movie

Feb 9, 2025 | yahoo.com | Timothy Bella

Anthony Mackie really wanted to make a good first impression on Harrison Ford. So when his co-star accepted his dinner invitation during their first week filming “Captain America: Brave New World” in Atlanta, Mackie asked Ford what he liked to eat. “I would really like some really clean Italian food,” he says Ford told him. Mackie was perplexed: What the hell is clean Italian food?
The history of the Gaza Strip, which Trump wants U.S. to ‘take over’

Feb 5, 2025 | washingtonpost.com | Vivian Ho |Timothy Bella |Kelly Kasulis Cho

President Donald Trump’s proposal for the United States to take a “long-term ownership position” over the Gaza Strip and displace Palestinians there added to uncertainty over the fate of the embattled 25-mile-long enclave and its 2.2 million residents. Hundreds of thousands of internally displaced Palestinians, traumatized by months of conflict, have only just begun returning to what is left of their communities after Israel and Hamas reached a fragile ceasefire agreement last month.
How Jimmy Carter helped build 4,390 homes with Habitat for Humanity

Jan 4, 2025 | post-gazette.com | Timothy Bella

When Jimmy Carter was hospitalized after he fell and hit his forehead on a sharp edge at his Georgia home in 2019, there was immediate concern for the health of the longest-living former president. But as Mr. Carter emphasized the next day in Nashville, he had homes to build.
How Jimmy Carter helped build 4,390 homes with Habitat for Humanity

Dec 29, 2024 | washingtonpost.com | Timothy Bella

When Jimmy Carter was hospitalized after he fell and hit his forehead on a sharp edge at his Georgia home in 2019, there was immediate concern for the health of the longest-living former president. But as Carter emphasized the next day in Nashville, he had homes to build.