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...tabloids. His parents frequently join him on the road, and when at home in Adelaide, he lives in a guesthouse on their property. "Lleyton is a Jekyll and Hyde," says his mother Cherilyn. "What you see out there on that court is not him." He recently hired a hometown buddy as a one-man entourage to have someone to discuss Australian football with. (Apparently his tennis-pro girlfriend Kim Clijsters, a Belgian, isn't up to the task...
...town: playing piano at the century-old Oriental Hotel's Bamboo Bar. The city's monied set showered him with invitations to cocktail parties and they enrolled their kids at the thriving Rosser Piano Studio. "This is a fulfilling life," Rosser told the Bloomington Herald Times, his Indiana hometown paper in 1999. "I'm doing all the things I love...
...HOMETOWN HANKERINGS Nanjing boasts some of the best universities in China and a sizable population of foreign students. As a result, there is also a great demand for cheap, Western-style food. I know because, six years ago, I was one of these culture-shocked scholars myself. At that time, the only Western choice available was McDonald's. What we would have given for the Skyways Bakery in my day! This inconspicuous caf? and deli is tucked among the Chinese restaurants and vendors lining West Hankou Street, offering classic homesickness remedies such as roast beef sandwiches and Italian ice cream...
Betty and Corky Christman have been riding and crewing at an annual balloon festival in their hometown of Billings, Mont., for the past decade. Betty, 60, a retired office administrator, enjoys the fun of crewing with anywhere from three to 10 others. She and Corky, 62, a real estate broker, have made several good friends over the years through their 6:30 a.m. ballooning adventures. Most of all, there's that special feeling of being airborne. "When I'm up in a balloon, it feels like I have wings and everything is easy, calm and good," Betty says. "Ballooning...
...good people are showing a different public face than their private selves," he says. Sexual secrets are the brick and mortar of The Good Girl and Chuck & Buck, and in 2001 White created Fox's Pasadena, a twisted, sly and regrettably short-lived prime-time soap (set in his hometown) about the criminal, financial and bedroom secrets of a newspaper-mogul family...