Word: showboats
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...Above all, the show has been cast mainly with people who want to be fashion stars more than Us Weekly fixtures. True, the Season 1 winner, Jay McCarroll, was a fast-talking, filthy-mouthed showboat with a thing for giant pink sunglasses. But rather than trying to extend his 15 minutes, he's still in rural Pennsylvania working on a collection and, he says, turning down offers to cash in on his fame. "People throw scripts at me for the dumbest s___," he says. "I'm not an actor! I don't want to play Santa Claus' gay assistant...
...Leon Lett vs. His Brain From showboat to goat: in the Super Bowl the defensive star's premature TD celebration cost his Dallas Cowboys a touchdown. On Thanksgiving the Cowboys lost to Miami because Lett couldn't keep his hands off a loose ball. This hotdog keeps ending up a wiener...
...SHOWBOAT Launching this week, OpulentSea sells points that can be redeemed for yacht usage. Prices start at $27,500 for several days on a fully crewed luxury boat in the Bahamas...
...House lashed back. "I felt like the person who made that statement was very misguided and ill-informed," said President George W. Bush, speaking from his home in Crawford, Texas, three days after the earthquake. Why the delay? Because, White House aides say, the President does not like to "showboat" by speaking too soon after events like this. "He didn't want to go out there and just speak for speaking's sake," says an aide. Democrats made hay of Bush's delayed response and ridiculed the Administration's initial pledge, suggesting that some of the $18 billion earmarked...
...ride it like a cowboy. Or he'll do the funky chicken. He might pull out the robot--"It's a classic," he says, laughing. "You get this reaction from the people, like 'Oh, my God, he's doing the robot.'" Some purists aren't smiling, labeling Stevenson a showboat. But he says his antics are what the vault needs. "I'm just having a great time," says the Stanford economics grad, who plans to start his own business. "I'm not taunting anyone. This is a professional sport--it needs help. It needs fans. And if someone says...