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That is a sign of the women's power and popularity. A recent USA Today poll showed that 75% of tennis fans prefer the women's game. Its TV ratings are routinely higher than the men's. Forbes Celebrity 100 list, which tabulates fame in America, includes five women's tennis players: Kournikova, No. 54; Venus, 57; Hingis, 65; Serena, 71; Davenport, 72. No other sport, male or female, has as many on the list. Non-tennis fans know Hingis, Kournikova, the Williamses, Capriati, Seles and maybe Davenport. The No. 1-rated male player is named Gustavo Kuerten. Seriously...
...wife and sons got $750,000 from JAL and Boeing.) JAL said that the daughters were ineligible because they were illegitimate. The family submitted DNA samples and in March 2000 received a declaration of paternity in British courts. JAL then offered about $80,000. Meanwhile, Diana shot to musical fame. In late July, JAL offered about $200,000. Bayly and her daughters rejected it. "We are not asking for much," says Bayly, "but after a third goes to lawyers, it simply isn't enough for Diana and Cassie to finish their training." Cassie is in piano studies at the Royal...
...best remembered for her portrayal of Cherie, the saucy nightclub singer in the original Broadway production of Bus Stop; in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her performances in the films Seance on a Wet Afternoon and Frances gained Oscar nominations, but despite critical success, the pressures of balancing family and fame led her to work infrequently. DIED. EDWARD HALL, 77, archaeologist who developed instruments and carbon-dating technology that were used to determine the age of the Shroud of Turin and to prove that the Piltdown man was a hoax; in Oxford, England. DIED. BETTY EVERETT, 61, soul singer whose...
...using glass fiber to repair speedboats when a musician friend suggested the material would be good to encase his cello: strong, light and capable of being molded to the peculiar shape of each instrument. Today, Pantelic numbers among his clients Yo-Yo Ma and Anner Bylsma, he of Servais fame. Pantelic is modest, saying his work "is just plastic and stinking chemicals." But one aspect of what he does would have applied equally to Stradivari: "I have no one between me and the customer...It's like coming to the tailor: your cello is getting its own suit...
...since taken up with a Tunisian model-showgirl known to Italians simply as Afef.) The Pirelli chairman does not yet yield the same kind of power as Agnelli, but he's trying. He took a major step in that direction last month when, together with the Benettons - of retail fame - he wrested control of Telecom Italia, the former state monopoly and now Europe's fourth-largest telecommunications company, from an upstart named Roberto Colaninno...