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...Beatles, Britain's Fab Four, the sensation of Europe. Their single I Want to Hold Your Hand had just hit No. 1. That afternoon in Manhattan, hordes of fans--mostly adolescent, mostly female--surged in the street outside CBS's Studio 50, where the lads were rehearsing for their debut on the closest thing that era had to a national entertainment forum: Ed Sullivan's Sunday-night TV variety show. Later, a lucky few hundred of the faithful were seated in the theater. Well, sort of seated. They squirmed and thrashed and leaped up and down. They screamed and squealed...
...there was the questionable, er, hair gel that several actors sported in There's Something About Mary and the man-eating crocodile that finished off his character in Wild Things. But neither of those compare to the pesky monkeys that tormented Dillon during the filming of his directorial debut, City of Ghosts, a crime drama set mostly in Cambodia and scheduled to open on April 25 in the U.S. "We had to smuggle in a monkey from Thailand for some scenes, because our Cambodian monkey was untrained and bit a chunk out of the prop lady's ear," Dillon recalls...
Lefeber allowed just two earned runs on six hits, outshining Brunnig, who was making his starting debut. Brunnig pitched a complete eight innings, striking out five while walking just one, but was tagged with the loss. Only four of the Panthers’ six runs were earned...
...other words, Hollywood thinks Jet Li is the new Bruce Lee. In the Jetster's major-studio debut, Lethal Weapon 4, Mel Gibson glanced at Li's designer tunic and cracked, "Nice pajamas, Bruce." In Cradle, Li still has to fend off references to Hong Kong's seminal martial artist, who died 30 years ago. An angry dwarf threatens to have his henchmen "kick your ass, Bruce." Li's response may be directed as much to his bosses as to the dwarf: "I'm not Bruce," he says wearily...
None of this comes as much of a surprise to Commissioner Stern, who has been consciously building the NBA into a global brand since before the Dream Team made its debut at the Barcelona Olympics a decade ago. "These kids have grown up watching Michael Jordan," Stern says of the NBA's new foreign stars. "Basketball is a universal language, and it's about to bloom on a global basis." Stern is counting on that, especially at a time when the NBA's popularity, at least judging by TV ratings and attendance figures, seems to have reached its peak...