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They didn't think he would shave his beard...
Cheung plays first the jealous girlfriend, then the knowing party, with great timing and verve. The parade of villains are appropriately naughty, in simplistic, signature ways: one has a beard, another has what seems a prerecorded Evil Laugh...
...athlete is isolated by wealth. Monica Seles, who would have every reason to sequester herself, is just one of the girls on the U.S. tennis team, living and reveling in the Olympic Village, catching as many events as she can. Evans, in her last Olympics, did the laundry for Beard, in her first. Nothing, not the Atlanta Olympic committee, not commercialism, not even a bomb, can extinguish the Olympic ideal. Some of the most heated matches in these Games--boxing, baseball, volleyball--will be between Cuba and the U.S. Yet the other night, after Jeff Rouse of the U.S. defeated...
...like 'Wow!'" declared Baltimorean Beth Botsford, 15, after striking gold in the 100-m backstroke. Brooke Bennett, a 16-year-old Floridian, won the 800-m freestyle, leaving a tearful Janet Evans, the queen of long-distance swimming, in sixth place. The youngest U.S. medalist, California's Amanda Beard, 14--who had her parents bring her teddy bear to the stands--captured two individual silvers in the breaststroke and a relay gold...
...Olympics are appealing to women not because of hokey scenes of swimmer Amanda Beard cuddling a teddy bear but rather because they used to be a pure communal event--of which there are so few--with moments of real sentiment and real heroism instead of the Oprah kind. They are one of the few times when TV celebrates hardworking role models instead of the self-absorbed doofuses on most of prime time and in big-time sports--and one when parents can watch with the kids without cringing at explicit sex scenes. That's more than enough reason to tune...