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With Survivor producer Mark Burnett in his corner, Sly will hunt for the next champ in the $2 million-per-episode NBC show The Contender...
...Balance in former world heavyweight-boxing champ Mike Tyson's bank account...
Winners never quit. At least not in boxing, where they wait until a new champ knocks them right out of the ring. But last week LENNOX LEWIS became the first active heavyweight champion to retire since Rocky Marciano did so in 1956. "I was thinking about it for a long time," said Lewis, who lost just two of 44 fights in a 14-year career. (One highlight: knocking out Mike Tyson in 2002.) "Should I go back in and have one more fight? But I realized this is the drug of the sport: there is always one more fight...
...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...