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...first week of the Olympics. Bode Miller proved better on the dance floor than the slopes, finishing a disappointing fifth in the downhill, getting disqualified in the combined after taking the lead and not finishing the super-G. Lindsey Kildow wishboned her skis during a terrifying practice-run crash in the women's downhill and was air-lifted to a hospital in Torino. Miraculously, she raced two days later but finished eighth. Only the surprise winner of the combined slalom-downhill event, Ted Ligety, sparked the U.S. ski team, which had labeled itself "Best in the World." Don't tell...
Wescott, whose dramatic win introduced the crash-and-burn world of snowboard cross to transfixed TV audiences, is the team's dad--and brain. The son of a college professor, Wescott devours lefty linguist Noam Chomsky, not the typical snowboarder fare. Wescott doesn't get away clean from the snowboarding stereotype. "He's so not a dude," says his sister, Sarah, 32. But "he can party with the best of them...
...that withholding creates its own all-or-nothing melodrama. That applies again this year, when some pretty intriguing head-to-head races are shaping up. Can Crash, the quintessential L.A. indie drama, make a stretch run to overtake the early favorite, Brokeback Mountain? Can Hollywood's most dapper leading man, George Clooney, beat out schlumpy but likable Paul Giamatti? Is dark horse Felicity Huffman the one to knock off everyone's darling, Reese Witherspoon? Will anyone catch Philip Seymour Hoffman...
WHAT THE BUZZ IS SAYING: That it is a movie Angelenos--who constitute the Academy's majority--perhaps like and identify with more than the rest of the country does. There's a sense of a little Crash boomlet beginning to crest on the West Coast. And that might cause a surprise on March...
WHAT ITS MAKERS ARE SAYING: An executive at Lionsgate, Crash's distributor, thought the tough job for his picture was getting it nominated. He was convinced that once voters saw it, Crash would have a good shot. So its Oscar campaign has consisted largely of a DVD blizzard of unprecedented size, which director Haggis thinks may be a new promotional paradigm. Nonetheless, he's aware that initially "people hated the politics of it, hated what I was saying and hated the filmmaking," and he doesn't believe that the more positive word of mouth that developed later will be able...