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...weekend when the top three films boasted African or African-American protagonists, two true-life sports inspirationals took the runner-up slots. The Blind Side, the story of a homeless black teenager who becomes a football star after being adopted by a white woman and her family, continued its run as the season's from-nowhere hit. Made for less than $30 million, the sturdy Sandra Bullock star vehicle took in $15.5 million, and after just 24 days has topped the $150 million mark in domestic receipts. Following a movie about football was one about rugby: Clint Eastwood's South...
...shattering of the man's manufactured character, is how he has taken it all sitting down. Amazingly, each and every day has gotten worse: humiliating text messages, allegations of bedding porn stars and prostitutes. And amazingly, Woods never punched back, leaving reasonable people to wonder whether it's all true. Now, employing the media spinmeister's trick of dumping news late on Friday afternoon, Woods has admitted on Dec. 12 to "infidelity" (ah, that's what he meant by his original confession of "transgressions") and announced on his website that he's going to stop playing golf for a while...
...place, but there's a lot to admire in how Sanford deftly and subtly grasped her part of the narrative and spun it. Hers is not the story of a dull wife who was passed over for an exotic woman in Argentina, but rather the tale of the true captain of a family ship, unbowed by the squalls. (See the top 10 scandals...
When will Woods play again? If he's true to his word and is indeed taking this indefinite leave to save his family, he might not tee up for a very long time. He clearly has a lot of work ahead of him. Tiger's absence is a horrendous development for golf. In a down economy, the sport is already hurting for sponsors. Without Woods, they won't come rushing through the ropes. But Tiger's decision is not the death knell many might suspect. Yes, golf ratings often get sliced in half when Woods doesn't play...
...trial in Mumbai for providing intelligence were arrested months before the attacks took place - before the Mumbai strategy was even finalized - security analysts here have long assumed that the plotters must have had other sources of information. The complaint against Headley claims that he was that source. If true, it opens a window into how the global jihadi network operates...