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Life as Steven Soderbergh then knew it came to end when he was 12 years old. He had been quite a baseball player, one of the best you could find among the boys in Baton Rouge, La. But in 1975 his talent mysteriously disappeared. "I woke up one morning, and I didn't have it," he recalls. "And I knew that I wasn't gonna be able to get it back. Whatever the thing was, it was just gone...
...quick to hang up his hat. His knack for directing, he says, "had left the building, but I knew it was still within the city limits. I just needed to tear down everything and start over." The result was Schizopolis, a 1997 comedy that Soderbergh shot back home in Baton Rouge. It's become a kind of cult favorite on video, a thoroughly nonsensical piece of work written by, directed by and starring Soderbergh, who spends a long sequence in the movie contorting his normally deadpan face in front of a mirror. It also features two characters who speak gibberish...
...baton is passed to Bush
DIED. JIMMIE DAVIS, thought to be 101, the "Singing Governor" of Louisiana; in Baton Rouge. Davis, who penned, by his own estimation, more than 400 songs, including You Are My Sunshine, served as an ineffectual segregationist Governor from 1944 to '48 and 1960 to '64. "He served two terms as Governor of Louisiana and was never indicted," said former Governor Edwin W. Edwards (who was). "That's a genuine achievement...
This summer's sleeper hit movie Bring It On, about a San Diego high school cheer team competing for a national championship, was not just Hollywood fantasy. Cheerleading has come a long way from the days of busty, baton-twirling quarterback groupies. Many cheerleaders, of course, still serve primarily as perky high school spirit rousers. But 14 states now call cheerleading a sport, and all-star teams--strictly competitive groups run by local gyms--are exploding in popularity. Some 40 groups organize regional and national competitions, most of them between December and April. "Competitive cheer" has become the fastest-growing...