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...subject one's busty female self to the brutality of the sweet science? Anne Vitiello, a former amateur and a commentator for HBO's boxing website, calls boxing an "archetypal experience" that transformed her life. With sharpened clarity and a less combative nature ("It's easier to get your boss coffee when you both know you can break his nose"), Vitiello says in the course of her years of boxing she found a successful freelance career, marriage and motherhood--a pretty good return for getting punched repeatedly...
...spite of the momentum, female pugilists have yet to win the hearts of some boxing "purists" like Sugar. HBO will not air women's boxing, partly because of its paucity of A-list fighters. "It's natural for a young sport," says CNN/SI boxing analyst Steve Farhood. "But the thin talent pool prohibits consistent, well-matched bouts." More to the point, says Vitiello, "promoters still see women as a sideshow. There is talent out there. But to get air time, you have to be a Playboy bunny or have a famous name...
...look at it. "I'd compare him to Johnny Depp," says Lee's partner, Sam Kitt. "His pictures haven't all performed well, but his talent is widely acknowledged." Apart from supporting bits in silly sequels to Scream and Major League, he has top billing in two HBO movies and had a stint on ER's 1996-97 season. "He's still young, but Omar brings a real maturity to his roles," says Danny Glover, who produced the HBO docudrama Deadly Voyage, which starred Epps. In Love & Basketball, Epps found a feature-film role literally tailor-made for him. With...
Like its 1996 predecessor, HBO's If These Walls Could Talk 2 (various dates in March) takes a high-concept approach--three stories set in one house in three decades--to a high-profile issue: in the first, abortion; here, lesbianism. (Walls 3 will no doubt treat health-care reform.) Like its forebear, this uneven but worthwhile film is less about sex than its aftermath. In "1961," Vanessa Redgrave, whose lover of 50 years has died, meets the woman's nephew, arrived to dispose of the house he's inherited and clueless about the lifestyle of his "maiden aunt." Redgrave...
...Sopranos: Music from the HBO Original Series