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...sent a rocket to centerfield, and knew it was gone from the crack...

Author: By Rob Cacace, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Athlete of the Week: Sarah Koppel `02 | 4/3/2001 | See Source »

...that myself, but she proudly showed me the latest issue of Mojo magazine with a photo of her younger self with a very early-period Elvis Presley, and that's exactly how she was captioned. Being on "Survivor" would be a career-topper for her, as well as a crack at that cool million. She took me through some of her life from the cotton fields of Alabama to her first chorus role on Broadway - age 17 - alongside Bert Lahr. I heard something about her performing a trick in which she could drive a golf ball 250 yards using...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 'Survivor 3': The Hollywood Audition | 4/2/2001 | See Source »

Bing, his long black hair half-tied into a ponytail, stands next to a cinder-block wall rubbing his eyes. Above his head, a thick trail of red army ants runs between a crack in the wall and a smashed piece of pineapple. He reaches into his pocket and pulls out a tissue in which he has wrapped four doa (bodies, slang for speed tablets). Jacky stops doing her nails, smiles and invites Bing back into her hut, asking sweetly, "Oh, Bing, where have you been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Speed Demons | 4/2/2001 | See Source »

...three events per 24-hour party cycle and hope that those chosen soirées will yield moments that reflect the industry's celebrations. You might not be at the Vanity Fair party at the precise moment when Russell Crowe finally encounters Stave Martin and "thanks" him for his crack about him hitting on Ellen Burstyn, but you hope to encounter enough pieces of the Hollywood jigsaw puzzle to at least assemble part of the picture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Doing the Oscar Bash | 3/26/2001 | See Source »

...happened with "Survivor 1," and it's happening in the sequel. There could hardly be any better conditions for an alliance to crack than the near-universal annoyance with Jerri, and last week the Ogakors held. The show looks set to sleepwalk through the next three weeks, because strategy so obviously dictates that the majority should hold together as long as possible before turning on each other. Immunity challenges are supposed to kink up the process, but it hasn't happened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Wrong Time to Pull a Bait-and-Switch | 3/21/2001 | See Source »

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