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...Penguin Lost, Viktor returns home when the heat is off and gets involved in high-level Kiev politics. He learns that his penguin has ended up in Chechnya, and heads to the volatile region to save his feathered friend. There, he ends up slaving for a Chechen boss in a makeshift crematorium that is the region's only neutral zone because it accommodates the dead from both sides of the conflict. Although he eventually returns home with Misha, Viktor and the penguin soon have to flee from a Kiev mafia boss turned parliamentarian. Their escape route involves a yacht trip...
This week Dwyane Wade, MVP of the 2006 NBA Finals, carried the Miami Heat to its first championship in franchise history. But can he carry an Adam Sandler movie? Wade took a time-out from his frantic post-title schedule - appearances on David Letterman and Live with Regis and Kelly, prepping for the team's victory parade in Miami - to chat with TIME's Adam Pitluk about what he wants to do next...
...WADE: Different things. Sometimes you listen to different rap. Before Game 6 [a 95-92 Miami win that clinched the title for the Heat] one thing I put on was an old song from when I was in college. It was an Eminem song, "Lose Yourself." I listened to that over and over again before Game 6. There's a lot of words in there that gets your mind right...
...Especially when it came to stopping Wade, who shined when the Heat needed him most, scoring 15 points during the fourth quarter of Miami's crucial Game 3 victory (he finished with 42), and 17 in the fourth quarter of Miami's Game 5 win (finishing with 43). Last night, a 36-point outing, he hit the bank shots, fall-aways and foul shots that made the difference. "[His teammates] had so much respect for him because they trusted him," said Miami Heat coach Pat Riley, who won his fourth NBA title, and his first since 1988, when he coached...
...just that he would get some quality playing time at Marquette," says Wade's high school coach, Jack Fitzgerald. But he has improved his game every year in college and the pros, and in 2004, Shaquille O'Neal demanded a trade from the Los Angeles Lakers to the Heat in part because he knew he could co-exist with the ego-free Wade. "Everything that happened in L.A.," says Wade, referring to O'Neal's clashes with Kobe Bryant, "wasn't going to happen here." How humble is Wade? His tithes 10% of his $3.03 million salary to his Chicago...