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PEOPLE: Anna Kournikova gets sued; Kevin Spacey gets conned...
...pianist. Now she's gone to broody melodrama, as a cop conflicted by love and honor in Ann Hui's new movie Jade Goddess of Mercy. This body of work has steadily raised her profile. In 2002, Zhao was voted the second-sexiest woman in the world, after Anna Kournikova and just ahead of Shu Qi, in a poll in FHM Singapore magazine...
Maybe the USA Network hired ANNA KOURNIKOVA, left, to cover the U.S. Open because of her pretty face. Or because she's the only Russian tennis player whose name Americans can pronounce. But if it was for incisive, McEnrovian analysis, the network didn't get it, and Kournikova retired from broadcast journalism after just three days. Explaining her rapid exit, Kournikova cited the awkwardness of interviewing fellow players and--if this makes sense to you--her overeating on the sidelines. Well, she could always fall back on her competitive tennis career. No, seriously. Maybe she could...
...teenagers across Russia will be glued to their TV sets, watching Dementieva and the rest of a new generation of Russian tennis stars compete in the U.S. Open. The sport has become a Russian obsession thanks to this wave of glamorous female players - first there was sports-model Anna Kournikova, of course, and then came the ones who can really play, such as Dementieva, 21, and Anastasia Myskina, 22, who have both won tour titles this year; 16-year-old Anna Tchakvetadze, who made the girls' singles final at Wimbledon; Lina Krasnoroutskaya, 19, who beat Kim Clijsters in August...
...person, and the kids have to be escorted by their parents. Still, "so many people have dollar signs in their eyes," sighs Larisa Preobrazhenskaya, the legend of Russian tennis, once the first female racket of the U.S.S.R., and coach since 1964 - the one who raised and trained Kournikova. She frets that "crazy tennis parents" motivated by greed are pushing their kids like slaves only to ruin them. It's not just the poor who do it, she says: "Glamour is a more sophisticated drug than money." Parents are bringing their hopefuls to her from all over Russia. "But they...