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...time when boxing has few stars and pro wrestling verges on cartoonish, ultimate fighting has a new appeal and is heading for mainstream entertainment. In June the big show-biz dealmakers at Creative Artists Agency signed up the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) as a client. A movie project based on the life of a wannabe ultimate-fighting warrior is circulating in Hollywood. On Oct. 3, Spike TV, which is owned by MTV and Viacom and is targeted at men who don't want to grow up, will pit several hours of live ultimate fighting against the choreography of World Wrestling...
...NINA WANG, 68, Asia's richest woman; an eight-year legal battle for control of her dead husband's multibillion-dollar real-estate empire; in Hong Kong. The Court of Final Appeal unanimously overturned a 2002 ruling that a will in which husband Teddy Wang left her his entire estate had been forged; the industrialist was kidnapped in 1990 and declared legally dead nine years later. Nina Wang, famous for her schoolgirl pigtails and flamboyant fashion sense, now regains full control of the Chinachem Group, the company that she built into a $3.5 billion enterprise after taking control following...
...DYLAN and COLE SPROUSE, both 13, who currently star in their own show on the Disney Channel and also appeared on the sitcom Friends. The new brand, D.C. Sprouse, hangs on the twins' cuteness and likability and will include DVD movies, CDs, clothing, sports gear and video games to appeal to the tween-boy audience. "They're real boy boys," says an Olsen rep of the Sprouses. "They like skating, sports, all of that." O.K., but if you want to know what boys are really into, here's a tip: try girls...
...though, the funds earmarked for the Gulf Coast were expected to last a month or two. House Republicans were so spooked by the size of the request that the White House dispatched Budget Director Joshua Bolten to Capitol Hill on Sept. 7, where he made an unusual, late-evening appeal to nearly 200 skeptical Representatives...
Siegel saw the opportunity and pounced on it as Roddick would a short second serve. Quickly Siegel redefined the product to appeal to a younger crowd. With teenage girls in mind, he and creative director Christophe Lemaire introduced the Lacoste stretch piqué polo, a Lycra-cotton shirt with a sexier, sleeker fit, in 25 vibrant shades. It's Lacoste's best-selling item for women; polos account for 30% of sales in both the men's and women's lines. "The piqué tight polos were the natural look to be paired with low-rise jeans," says Siegel. "They just took...