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...last months, before her death today at 62, Fawcett served as another important emblem: the gaunt, glamorous battler against anal cancer. She could have left her fans with memories of a white-hot celebrity as Charlie's blondest angel, a solid career playing besieged TV-movie heroines and a volatile private life that was almost always public. Instead, she waged a fight for cancer awareness in the best and bravest way she knew how: with a two-hour ABC TV special, widely seen in May, that showed her at home, in a California hospital and in a German clinic, often...
...friends. (He eventually creates a de facto network of independent stations to air the interviews.) Of the two reporters he hires to research Nixon, one, Bob Zelnick (large, puddingy Oliver Platt) is cynical of Frost's ability to bring the scheme off, and the other, James Reston, Jr. (bantam battler Sam Rockwell), rails against the host's apparent reluctance to focus on studying...
After the show, Zornow met DJ Cutfucious, a fellow DJ battler with whom he had been chatting online for several months...
...Walsh of Haviland. “And I think he’s back a lot better than he was last year. He has his strength back, he’s healthy—I’m seeing a world of difference in him. We have a real battler out there.” Beyond Haviland, the starting pitching picture is a bit murkier, but one candidate—flame-throwing frosh Adam Cole—has emerged as an early favorite to nail down a weekend spot. Despite Cole’s greenness, Walsh says his big-time...
...women, the top field event finisher was freshman Claire Battler, who won the pole vault by clearing 3.41 meters...