Word: boitanos
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...dominance that included four performances in 11 years. But as viewership swelled, from 24 million for Super Bowl I to 92 million two decades later, the game's rotating cast of producers began hiring brighter stars. Which isn't to say the shows got better: Gloria Estefan, Brian Boitano and Dorothy Hamill made a particularly mismatched lineup in 1992, as did Michael Jackson and a group of 3,500 children the following year. The show's most memorable glitch, of course, wasn't a casting choice: Janet Jackson's infamous wardrobe snafu in 2004 sparked an FCC crackdown on racy...
They developed a winning partnership?what Hermann describes as a unique connivance or collusion. Joe Boitano, group vice president of Saks Fifth Avenue, watched her guide Galliano through many "difficult moments" before presentations at the store. "Valerie just knew how to get into the trenches with the designer, understanding all his emotional and creative needs, and at the same time say, 'We're going to make this business happen...
...celebrities like Julia Roberts, who wore Aberra in the movie Runaway Bride, and Salma Hayek, for whom Aberra has designed evening gowns. "The bridal business tends to be very traditional, and she has worked toward moving it forward, yet still keeping her dresses elegant and sophisticated," says Joseph Boitano, Saks' general merchandise manager...
...villain (here the tandem of Will Arnett and Amy Poehler) who will surely be defeated in the climactic competition. Blades also plants a few sport icons in the supporting cast; as Dale Earnhart Jr. dressed up the race-car movie, Peggy Fleming, Dorothy Hamill, Scott Hamilton, Brian Boitano and Nancy Kerrigan lent their implicit blessing to the skateathon. Sacha Baron Cohen was in Talladega; Sasha Cohen shows up here...
...Jimmy might be a kind of blond Boitano, while Chazz is from the butch, Elvis Stojko school. But the enmity is surely a gender-bending version of the 1994 feud between Kerrigan and Tonya Harding. In the movie, skating's criminal underside is personified by Stranz and Fairchild Van Waldenberg, a borderline-incestuous brother-sister pair whose long-skate routine has the theme "Forbidden Love," with Stranz skating as JFK and Fairchild as Marilyn Monroe. Arnett and Poehler's turn doesn't quite match Baron Cohen's as the French driver in Talladega, but Arnett gets points for smarming...