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...thinks of himself as a fisherman, not a warrior; a working-class bloke, not a half-Olympian. He's the god-man as grunt, and Worthington - his accent wandering at whim from Australian to English to Iowan - plays Perseus as a wily proletarian, not far from the Jason Statham stud in Leterrier's 2006 movie Transformer 2. That's the way to play this character, since the movie is also about humans who have tired of being the gods' playthings and are ready for a slave revolt. Perseus will be their grizzled gladiator (Worthington often channels fellow Aussie Russell Crowe...
...Plys, who has attracted a minor Internet following because of his sharp looks (one site dubbed him "Olympic Stud of the Day"), can't completely hide his disappointment in not getting more ice time. "It's frustrating, yeah," he says. "It is what it is." As the youngest member of the U.S. team - he's 22 - and the alternate, Plys insists that he is in no position to plead his case with his coaches. Perhaps that German skip can teach Plys to speak...
...He’s a stud,” said Lin, who has won the award three times this season himself. “He’s a freshman but he plays like a senior. He’s gotten a lot more comfortable since the beginning of the year. He’s just playing out of his mind right now and we’re lucky that he’s on our team...
...Change the culture. Listen to the logic of A.J. Hatfield, a stud fullback from Port Angeles, Wash. During a practice in October, his head was knocked against the ground. Hatfield felt dizzy and developed a splitting headache. Did he tell his coaches about his condition? "Nah," Hatfield says. "I didn't want to seem like I was being a baby." He played the next day - and struggled to stay awake afterward. He received a concussion diagnosis. Oh yeah, Hatfield is in the eighth grade. Luckily, he swears he learned his lesson...
...Tall and brawny, he played football at historically black Florida A&M University, studied law and rose quickly as a young representative in Michigan's legislature. By 2001, he was elected Detroit's mayor at age 31, partly by energizing this city's disaffected youth. His flashy suits, diamond-stud earrings and inaugural "club crawls" proclaimed his comfort with being called "America's first hip-hop mayor...