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...ever been able to bridge that gap between the last sprint and the first middle-distance race, although one woman, Valerie Brisco-Hooks, did win the 200 and the 400 in the '84 Los Angeles Games. But as the sign in the trainer's room at the track stadium says, PEOPLE WHO SAY IT CANNOT BE DONE SHOULD NOT INTERRUPT THOSE WHO ARE DOING...
...duds for upcoming movies. Two films based on the Wyatt Earp legend are in the works; so are movie versions of the popular TV series Bonanza and Maverick. In prime time the western is making a slow but notable return, with shows such as Fox's The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. Ken Burns (The Civil War) is overseeing a 10-hour documentary series on the Old West, due in 1996. Lonesome Dove, meanwhile, has spawned one TV sequel, Return to Lonesome Dove (airing on CBS over three nights next week), and the promise of a second, based on McMurtry...
Imagine the same revealing pose with Burt Reynolds surrounded by Mary Lou Retton, Mary Decker, Valerie Brisco-Hooks and Nancy Hogshead in the buff. Had it been the female U.S. Olympic winners rather than the male, they might have been asked to give up their gold medals...
Next it was the Soviet-bloc women who put on a show. The Friendship winners were swifter than the Olympic gold medalists in every distance event in track: the 800, 1,500 and 3,000 meters. East Germany's Marita Koch bettered Valerie Brisco-Hook's time in the 400 meters by .67 of a second. Yet it was the water that seemed to be their element. At Moscow's Olympic pool, the crowd bellowed its approval as four East German women set a world record in the 400-meter freestyle relay. In the women...
...know," she said. "You figure it out for yourselves." Splinter Evelyn Ashford, usually a retiring soul, told ABC television that running gave her "a feeling between space and time... You don't get it often, but when it's there, it's better than having sex." Brisco-Hooks celebrated her 400-meter-race gold medal by dropping to her knees in prayer, then jumping up and down in a massive family bear hug with her husband and two-year...