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...medium. Movies are guy space. So consider the release next month of "Josie and the Pussycats," a live-action version of the comic book and '70s TV cartoon series, and this summer's "Tomb Raider," with Angelina Jolie as supervixen Lara Croft. Consider, and savor, the success of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon," the all-time top-grossing foreign-language film that was set to hit the $100 million mark at the North American box office last weekend. Ang Lee's martial arts fantasy features two strong women, a 30ish warrior (Michelle Yeoh) and a willful teen (Zhang Ziyi) just discovering...
...women of the "Charlie's Angels" movie, which has earned $125 million since its November debut, might not seem to have kinship with "Crouching Tiger"'s stately stunners. This colorful jape propels Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore and Lucy Liu through its empty-calorie plot with the force of a hurricane blow-dryer. The stars giggle, wear swank togs, toss their coiffures in luxurious slo-mo. Diaz shakes her booty a lot. And skeptics may laugh their booty off when told that the Angels are icons of empowerment...
...great was Bradman? If Tiger Woods dominates golf for another 15 years, perhaps he will have a peer. For now, no other sport has seen his like. Dissenters have suggested he wasn't the most marvelous, that some other batsman was more elegant, another more powerful or charismatic. But always Bradman's record destroys their claim. Between 1928 and 1948 he played 52 Tests, in which he scored 6,996 runs at an average of 99.94. For cricket followers, it is that average, pondered even for the thousandth time, which bewilders. The next best: South African Graeme Pollock...
...Winners ANNA PAVLOVA And she's still skinny. Leading ballerina returns to Russia after 70-year absence?in an urn ALTHEA GIBSON Black '50s tennis champ gets her mug on cereal box. When will Ilie Nastase get his due? SIEGFRIED AND ROY Las Vegas illusionists and tiger fetishists sign lifetime contract. Is there...
ONLY A MATTER OF TIME Orlando Montagu, descendant of the fourth Earl of Sandwich (the 18th century Brit who first wed beef to bread), has opened a sandwich service in London. On the menu: beef with grated horseradish and creme fraiche; char-grilled tiger prawns in chili jam. Said he: "We have tremendous pressure on us to get this right...