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...gambling world is filled with--and lives off of--slickers who never had a prayer. But the gamblers never scorn them. "Losers are suppliers," says poker champ Pug Pearson. "When you beat a man, you don't rub his face in it. You shrug and agree that it was luck and give him another chance. At double or nothing...
Somebody did make Fatal Attraction. And this fall, what if became wow! Striking moviegoers with the startling power of a madwoman in your bathroom, Paramount's lurid romantic thriller is the zeitgeist hit of the decade. It has been box-office champ for each of its first seven weeks in release, and shows little sign of slackening. Last week it reached the $80 million mark, to rank as the year's second highest grossing film. It's the movie with something for almost everybody. Says Michael Douglas, who plays Dan: "People leave saying 'I laughed, I got turned...
That description fits women like the blond girl with polio who drags her crippled legs up to the table and competes in the only sport she can. And it fits men like Joe Elmizadeh, 36, an Iranian immigrant, who was a long-jump champ in the 1974 Asian Games. Now Joe is a garage mechanic who beat all his cohorts in matches at the shop, which is why they have dragged him to today's event, his first. "He's got himself in a fix today," says his wife Adrienne...
While the Bruins (3-1 Ivies, 4-2 overall) have only Dartmouth and Columbia (a combined 0-7 in the Ivies) remaining on their league slate, the Crimson still must contend with five-time defending Ivy champ Penn and always unpredictable Yale...
Fusco, the Crimson's 1985 scoring champ, and MacDonald, the '86 scoring leader, were linemates at Harvard. Now they're back on the same line with the Olympians. Fusco has eight goals and 14 assists in 21 games and MacDonald has 11 goals and 14 assists in 22 games...