ICE T & COCO BOTH RELEASED BOOKS AT THE SAME TIME!

Ice-T and the woman he loves, Nicole (Coco) Marrow, are freshly published authors. "Angel" is her first novel while "Kings of Ice" is his second book. Both thrillers were phoned in.

"What the publisher did was assign me someone who really knew me," says Coco, best known for putting her 'licious curves on display. "There were numerous phone ­conversations. I relayed it chapter by ­chapter. I just talked forever."
The rapper and star of "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit," informally known as Ice, explains the process further.

"You write your outline and you work back and forth with the ideas and stuff.

"Marish [Coco] said she could never write a book. I told her it was the same as with a record. You just get with the right producer."

Both give full credit to the writers on the cover of their books (Laura Hayden and Mal Radcliff, respectively), while Coco almost brims over while talking about her approach to the novel and her marriage, too. She's simply that enthusiastic.

"Mine came to me in a dream," she says. "I always have crazy dreams. I wake up and tell my husband these amazing stories, but sometimes I just don't want to wake up."

Angel of "Angel" is rescued from a plane crash in the Hudson River. She comes to in the hospital with no memory but gifted with the supernatural ability to channel men's desires. That ability to shape-shift into Carnality Inc. gives her the chops to solve a murder.

"When you can be that perfect woman for a man, you can get inside his head and solve anything," she claims from experience. "For Ice, I am that perfect woman. I've turned into what he wants."

(Ice, for his part, admits to only one hesitation regarding Coco. "Coco is like a nudist and she thinks everybody should be down with that. I don't want to see everybody nude. It's not necessarily a good sight.")

If real women have curves, Coco is ­really, ­really real, as anyone who watched the first season of their ­reality show, "Ice Loves Coco" on E!, knows.

The 32-year-old swimsuit model who formerly worked for Playboy didn't dress it up the way Camille Grammer did when she married a celebrity. In fact, Coco insists on taking it off. Thong Thursday, illustrated pictorally, is one of the more polite themes on her Cocosworld Twitter feed.

"I wanted acceptance for who I am and that you don't have to be super-skinny to be pretty. These celebrities aren't just born that way. Anorexia is not pretty and that's what those girls are," she says adamantly. "I tell women, 'Show your curves, show your hips.' And they thank me for it."



So, speaking of Ice, how does he feel about the showing-your-curves thing?

"My man accepts it. He knows I like to work it. It's like having a Ferrari. Do you keep the cover on it? No. You want the cover off. You want to drive it."

Ice says he's a willing passenger.

"I think it's normal for someone who looks like her to want to show it," he says. "If you get a guy who goes to the gym and works out, you can't keep a shirt on that guy. I don't think anyone wants to be with someone, woman or man, no one wants to look at. That's part of being proud. ­Everyone wants that little bit of head-­turning.

"She could make me jealous by making me feel insecure. But she keeps me feeling so secure. You've never seen a picture of Coco with any man but me."

Ice, who published "Ice: A Memoir of Gangster Life and Redemption" earlier this year, says the idea for "Kings of Vice" had been kicking around in his head for a long time. It came out of the 1979 cult movie "The Warriors," wherein the most powerful gang leader in New York is shot after staging an all-gang summit to call for unification.

In Ice's book, his man Crush does a 20-year stint after being betrayed by his second in a crime syndicate. Back on the street he has business to attend to but ultimately emerges as a criminal with a higher purpose.

"I wrote in a way that Crush's story can go on," he says. "I've already started on the second one."

On the subject of the makeover of "SVU," with Christopher Meloni gone after 272 episodes and two new actors, Danny Pino and Kelli Giddish, playing lead detectives, he's reassuring.

"They fall right in place," he says, adding that he could stay with the show as Det. Odafin (Fin) Tutuola for the rest of his acting life.

"I'm comfortable. Name 10 black actors making a million dollars a movie. Sure the grass is always greener, but
unless your name is Will Smith, it isn't that green."

Meanwhile, he and Coco spend most of the year in their northern New Jersey home while he shoots the series. She cleans ("I'm a bit OCD") while he hunkers down for hours with his Xbox.

"At least it keeps me in the house," he says.

"At least I know where he is," says she.




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