Word: divas
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...DIVA GETS STOOD UP Upon arriving in Torino, U.S. national figure-skating champ JOHNNY WEIR admitted to being "princessy" when he travels. He complained that his Olympic Village quarters were cramped and so dusty that he had to mop the floor himself. Entering the free program in second place, Weir lost focus, shuffling his elements around and finishing fifth. Turns out that two hours before skating, he had been waiting in the cold for a bus that never came. Maybe he's got a point about crummy service...
...progression that is all the more remarkable given her exhausting schedule. Meissner still attends Fallston High School in the morning and skates every weekday afternoon at the University of Delaware, an hour's drive from her home. If there is any danger of her becoming a skating diva, her three elder brothers will dispel it. "They don't really pay attention to what I'm doing," she said during a break in her training last summer. Nate, a firefighter, learned about his sister's Axel feat last year only when a buddy in the firehouse saw the replay on ESPN...
...from the foundation's statutes, which state that a direct descendant of Onassis shall be eligible for the presidency upon reaching the age of 21. That provision was added by Christina, and not devised by her father. Aristotle Onassis was uncompromising in affairs of the heart, brutally dumping opera diva Maria Callas in 1968 to marry Jacqueline Kennedy. (Athina Livanos, mother to his two children, had divorced him after learning of his affair with Callas.) In business he was equally insensitive to the feelings of his women. His will divided his empire in two parts, with 45% of the estate...
...selling mom proved TV?s least desperate. Weeds? Mary-Louise Parker beat all four Desperate Housewives she was up against for Best Actress in a TV Musical or Comedy. Which means, of course, the diva crown on ABC?s primetime soap opera will have to be decided...
...tall and slender with a throaty laugh and the kind of honestly pretty face that bespeaks the no-nonsense attitude of a supporting actress who really believes in supporting her fellow players. "I don't have the looks to be a Hollywood diva," she says. What she has is a love for those acting communities that quickly form to make a picture (and as quickly disperse). "That's why I'll go on something based on the director," she says. "If you're working with a director you respect, they're going to accrue people who are similar-minded. They...