Word: golds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...people too. He divided his time between his parents' home in Valmeyer, Ill., and a shack on a half-acre plot in Rimini, Mont., a dirt-road hamlet in the shadow of Red Mountain named by isolated Irish miners smitten by a touring performance of Tchaikovsky. He panned for gold with little luck, tinkered with junked cars and lived on government disability payments that were based on a history of mental illness. Neighbors knew enough to keep a polite distance; he used to tell them he was John F. Kennedy's illegitimate...
...comforting to know that American sports stars aren't the only ones who go wiggy with fame. Russians PASHA GRISHUK and EVGENY PLATOV, right, the only ice dancers ever to win back-to-back Olympic gold medals, have always been as odd a match off the ice as they were perfect on it. Pasha is, well, flamboyant. She models herself after Marilyn Monroe, went through the torturous process of changing her name from Oksana to Pasha--Russian for passion--and has made no secret of her Hollywood dreams. Now, apparently, Evgeny has decided her virtuosity...
Most teen films don't do this well, and most young TV stars can't guarantee B.O. gold. Movies starring Campbell (Wild Things) and the slightly older Friends cast (Picture Perfect, Fools Rush In, Romy & Michele's High School Reunion) typically bump their heads on the $30 million ceiling. Teen movies still serve an old function: to caulk the crevices in the release schedule and create cheap product that, if it doesn't make a bundle, won't lose one either. Like I Was a Teenage Werewolf and the Elvis films of 40 years ago, they are reliable B movies...
...make that leap, there's another way to invest in the Net that I call the Forty-Niner strategy. If you don't want to lend your money to gold prospectors, invest in the companies that sell them shovels and pans. On the wired frontier, those firms include Cisco and Lucent, which are building much of the Net's physical infrastructure of routers and switches...
...three players in history have done it at a younger age. During one stretch in 1993, he homered in eight consecutive games, tying the major league record. Last season, after hitting .304, leading the American League in runs and RBIs, socking 56 home runs and winning an eighth straight Gold Glove, he was unanimously voted the league's most valuable player. "When you look at what Junior's done and the skills he possesses," says his manager, Lou Piniella, "you have to say that in this era he's as good as anyone who's played. I can't think...