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...Germany there's a lot of talk that he's running to find his lost childhood," says Becker's friend Sahner. "Now he must find his way. If he continues to do what he did the last two years, it will be very dangerous for him and his image...
...there are flashes. Becker is a member of the Laureus World Sports Academy, a European foundation devoted to achieving social change through sports, and when he heard about its support of the Richmond, Virginia-based Midnight Basketball program, he insisted on seeing it in action. A barely publicized event in mid-April promised little in the way of image-polishing, but Becker went to Richmond anyway, attended a workshop, gave a pep talk, borrowed some socks and sneakers and played ball - all before an audience of only 100 people. A month earlier, he had spent two days working...
...same objectivity that allowed Boris to admire Barbara even as she took him apart also enables him to see that his career created an entity beyond himself - a creature of fame named Boris Becker - that threatens to trap him in a life of fraudulence. He can't decide if his life is a Wagnerian opera or a Beckett farce, so he takes himself too seriously and pokes fun at himself, often at the same time. He recently finished shooting a movie in Germany, playing himself. "Yeah, myself," he says. "Whatever Boris I'm supposed to be that...
...nights later, Becker is at a dinner with Völkl retailers. He poses for pictures, jokes about his woman trouble, patiently answers the same old questions. "You still have that glow," says one man. "For my wife and her friends, you still have it. It's a blessing." "And sometimes a curse," Becker says...
...BECKER IS SPEEDING DOWN THE HIGHWAY, rushing to catch a flight to Los Angeles for the Academy Awards, during which he'll wander about with a television crew and draw huge ratings back in Germany. Earlier today, however, at a gathering with Völkl retailers on a tennis court at a Miami resort, he picked up a racket and swung it behind and over his head, tossing an imaginary ball. "It's still there," one retailer said. Becker nodded...