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...heist. Starring Karl Maka, Sam Hui and Sylvia Chang, the film was at the time the highest-grossing Hong Kong movie ever. (At today's ticket prices, Aces would have earned about $13 million, which is nearly double the take of Shaolin Soccer, the reigning Hong Kong box-office champ.) Still, that early success never went to Tsang's head. "When people ask for my advice, I tell them I'm not always right," he says. "In fact, I tell them I've been a big loser...
This is a wise strategy if the goal is a diverse career. Hanks, Cruise and ladies' champ Julia Roberts are the gracious wits audiences like to imagine themselves as, but they are also prisoners of their own goodwill, condemned to deliver endless variations on the same performance. Crowe can play anything because he has conditioned audiences to expect anything. He is smart enough to possibly be given credit for premeditating this eremitic media strategy; he is also obstreperous enough simply to hate having his privacy invaded...
...concern. He has the league’s most talented and experienced team—so talented and experienced, in fact, that no team in the country has as many players on its roster as Harvard (16) who have been in NCAA tournaments. Not two-time defending champ Minnesota. Not Boston University. Not Cornell. Not anybody. And nobody’s gonna stop the Crimson from winning the ECAC title this year, and maybe even making a serious run in the NCAAs...
...game, including those that are not beer exclusive. “I don’t care what they’re drinking. It’s the actual act of playing that matters,” Moulton says. All the practice has certainly paid off, since this Beirut champ boasts a winning streak of seventeen straight games, though the success of his business venture remains to be seen. In the meantime, here are the pro’s top tips...
...Dante was the biggest, Mark the fastest and Thomas the ’tweener, bigger than Mark though not as fleet of foot. They were good at all their sports—Dante, a two-time USA Today Honorable Mention All-American in basketball, and Mark, a New England champ in track—but football was the house favorite...