at the Port Royal Golf Club.

At a noon press conference on the steps of City Hall, Mr. Jackson encouraged locals to attend the event which will raise money for the Council Partners Charitable Trust of Bermuda and the Catalogue for Giving of New York.

"For the past five months my team has been hard at work setting up this tournament,'' he said. "The support from the local community has been overwhelming and I am so excited to have picked Bermuda as the home of my tournament.'' Mr. Jackson could not confirm which celebrities would be making the trip to Bermuda as he was still in the process of preparing the list.

R AND R! Bermudians are not easily star struck. Just ask film star Samuel L.

Jackson. The actor quietly sipped a Perrier water on the front steps of City Hall yesterday and wasn't exactly mobbed.