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...born would follow in their footsteps--even if they had to "just drink water and eat bread." Dumitru had his baby girl hanging by her hands from a clothesline at six months and tumbling in her first gymnastics class at age three. It paid off. Soon after her 10th birthday, they left their jobs in Tampa, Fla.--Camelia worked in a hair salon, Dumitru as a used-car dealer--to follow her to the Houston gym of legendary trainer Bela Karolyi to preside over her vault into the spotlight. In a best-selling autobiography written...
Camelia Moceanu, however, portrays her daughter as a prima donna. "Everything she asked for she had," says Camelia, referring to an apartment-size bedroom, the gym complex and, last month, a Mercedes on her 17th birthday, which the teenager traded in for a convertible Mustang. Dumitru maintains that while Dominique will not have access to her trust fund until she is 35, her parents built the gym with her knowledge and blessing. Camelia admitted her husband had been strict with Dominique but insisted, "You are strict for their own good, but nothing to the point it was unbearable." Camelia also...
...going to jail--orworse--for shooting her husband. Lenny bears thefull brunt of their grandfather's terminalillness. Lenny is not a part one can exactly playwith grace, but Jen Ceballos '01 plays herperfectly to every inch of fatigue andbedraggled-ness. The awkward, earnest way Lennytries to light her own birthday candles alone inher kitchen opens the play on a perfect note, andshowcases Ceballos' expertise with Lenny'sflighty, loud and endearing character. Lenny'salternately bossy and utterly helpless momentspush the characters to the hysterical moments thatgive this play its funny moments. Ceballos' actingeventually convinces the audience that Lenny isnot a bitter...
...Crimson prepared to have the same scrutiny directed toward itself or its own "beverage-laden" parties? The editors should not confuse a need for education in responsible drinking with a need for "zero-tolerance policies." Unfortunately, the dangers of drinking do not disappear on a student's 21st birthday. JOHN J. A. SMITH...
Sears and Conner originally put the show together for Swift's 100th birthday in 1997. Tonight's concert, however, is part of the nationwide celebration of Gershwin's centennial birthday...