NAMES IN THE NEWS : Actors to Reign Over 2 Parades

Actors Dennis Quaid and John Goodman will reign over two of the most popular Mardi Gras parades next month.

Goodman, who plays Roseanne Barr’s husband on the ABC show “Roseanne,” will be grand marshal of the Krewe of Endymion on Feb. 24. Quaid, who burned up the keyboards as Jerry Lee Lewis in the film “Great Balls of Fire,” will be Bacchus the next day, carnival officials said Friday. Mardi Gras is Feb. 27.

Both have several ties to Louisiana. The two starred in the 1987 police thriller “The Big Easy,” set in New Orleans, and “Everybody’s All-American,” a 1988 film shot in Baton Rouge.

Goodman was married in New Orleans on Oct. 27 to Bogalusa native Annabeth Hartzog, a former student at the University of New Orleans.

“I’m just nuts about New Orleans,” Goodman said. “It’s going to be a good time for everyone. You know, man, anything goes.”