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...fact, if time allows, I'd have all the gold medalists, except wrestlers, wrestle one another in an overall 1,000-point super-Olympic event to determine the world's best athlete. I'd also make them all live in one house and complain about one another to the camera...
...highly self-regarding autobiography, In the Line of Fire. "Where was Pakistan in 1999?" he intoned. "No one knew us, no one spoke to us, and no one listened to us. Now, we have put Pakistan on the map and people take notice." Looking intently toward the camera, he declared, "This country faced unprecedented challenges. And I turned every challenge into an opportunity ... I'm leaving satisfied with my actions...
...When German-born Smith first visited the Tiwi's home islands of Bathurst and Melville, north of Darwin, most people were wary of outsiders and suspicious of the camera. But the photos she took on that brief stay in 1987 changed the Tiwi elders' minds. They agreed to let her make a book about the people who'd "captured my heart," and gave her the run of the islands...
...Smith soon became part of the family - there are only 2700 Tiwi, a name that means "we the only people." And they learned to live in front of her camera as if it wasn't there. For Tiwi (1990), she captured every aspect of daily life and ceremony, but it's the portraits that stay with you. Even when her subjects are naked, they are clothed in dignity. Even when they pose (one old man insisted on wearing a cockatoo-feather headdress), they are simply themselves...
...other runners sniggered when they saw Abebe Bikila turn up at the start of the Olympic marathon with no shoes. As a television camera scanned the scrum of athletes readying themselves for the starter's gun, a commentator asked: "And what's this Ethiopian called?" It was 1960, Rome. Africa was just shrugging off the weight of colonial rule and some sporting officials still doubted Africans were ready for the big time. A little over 2 hr. 15 min. later that myth lay shattered by the slight man wearing number 11, a member of Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie's Imperial...