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Thorpe's character is praised as effusively as his swimming. His manager, Dave Flaskas, says he "doesn't waste energy trying to fake a persona." His father Ken says he and wife Margaret have raised an "old-style person": trustworthy, decent and clean-living. Ken's father Cec was a frustrated cricket player who lived vicariously through his three sons' athletic pursuits. This was suffocating for Ken, who vowed to let his two children play pressure free...
Thorpe's character is praised as effusively as his swimming. His manager, Dave Flaskas, says he "doesn't waste energy trying to fake a persona." His father Ken says he and wife Margaret have raised an "old-style person": trustworthy, decent and clean-living. Ken's father Cec was a frustrated cricket player who lived vicariously through his three sons' athletic pursuits. This was suffocating for Ken, who vowed to let his two children play pressure free...
...coming up with folks to talk about the CBS show. NBC's Today show booked Dawn Wells, who played Mary Ann on Gilligan's Island. That's an actress who played a character on a deserted island commenting on a game show set on a deserted island--a fake person analyzing a fake event. "I think Mr. Howell would be in there paying somebody off," she told Matt Lauer. "I was saying at the beginning, I thought he'd get voted off one of the first two or three. But I don't think so, now that I think about...
...HOAX Shares of Emulex Corp. plunged some 67% last Friday, after a fake press release appeared on the Internet Wire site. It was soon picked up by other media, and the rout was on. The stock recovered, but some investors were burned. The lesson: if the news is sensational, check the source or the company's website. Second lesson: once a panic starts, if you're not out first, you're toast...
...There was even some karmic good news Thursday - the feds caught the alleged Emulex scammer after only six days. (Apparently he'd shorted the stock in legit trading and was down 100K, so he came up with the fake press release to cool...