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...open to another mistake." Added Russian team official Valeri Dianov: "She was emotionally depressed after that. We expected her to be Olympic champion. This is the worst performance the Russian team has ever had at the Olympics." Knowing she'd need an impossibly high score to take even a bronze medal, Svetlana chose not to redo her vault and leave the question of who was the best female gymnast in the world open to discussion. Earlier in the week, before disaster struck, she had said, "losing isn't the worst thing that can happen to you." Now she had more...
...America's Sweethearts" will likely star John Cusack as the movie-star husband who's fallen for his wife's sister, who'll likely be played by Roberts, with Billy Crystal as the publicist spinning liar's gold. The project was announced in the Hollywood trade papers last Wednesday, even as a contingent of top movie-studio executives were doing their own spinning, meeting with their own publicists and figuring out how to present themselves this week before the Senate Commerce Committee...
...realize that the FTC report on marketing violence has provided the Democrats a springboard for some good old-fashioned family-values campaigning. Standing on a family-values platform is like casting Richard Gere in a movie. It doesn't guarantee a hit, but it's a decent bet, and even the most hotheaded limousine liberal will do nothing to jeopardize a Democrat's chance to make the next batch of Supreme Court appointments. Perhaps if the congressional critics were all Republicans, as Dan Quayle can tell you, the studios would be scripting a more colorful response and sending Chris Rock...
...first Olympics, was upstaged by two relatively mature - and hitherto little known-swimmers from the Netherlands. Between them, Pieter van den Hoogenband, 22, and Inge de Bruijn, 27, won five gold medals and set six world records on their way to becoming the new royalty of international swimming. "Even the Australians are calling me the queen of the pool," said De Bruijn of the host country's enthusiasm for swimming and the 17,500 fans who rattled the roof with joy after each world record was rewritten. "I still feel like I am dreaming," she said after...
...Hoogenband, who avoided big international meets for the past year, it all came together last week. He became the first man since Mark Spitz in 1972 to win the 100-m and 200-m freestyle finals - perhaps an even greater feat than the American's considering the Dutchman's stellar opponents. In winning the blue-ribbon sprint title, Van den Hoogenband ended the reign of Alexander Popov, who was trying to win his third straight Olympic 100-m freestyle gold. "It's not the end of the world, obviously," said the 28-year-old Russian, undefeated over the distance...