Word: idol
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...true what rocker Nick Lowe sang--you've got to be cruel to be kind--then Simon Cowell is the kindest man on TV. A judge on Fox's hit singing contest American Idol: The Search for a Superstar, the British BMG Records executive eviscerates wannabe divas with insults that would make one reconsider singing in the shower, let alone in public. "Who's your teacher?" he said to one aspirant. "Get a lawyer...
...Jiang Wen's a man's man," counters a stout, high school swimming coach craning his neck to see his virile idol ambling down a narrow Beijing alleyway. Onscreen, Jiang's toughness is best when it's paired with vulnerability. In the role that made him famous across China, as a fresh-off-the-boat newlywed in the 1993 TV series A Beijing Man in New York, Jiang played an out-of-work cellist who battles bitchy bosses, sticky-fingered factory managers and an immigrant's ennui. In Zhang Yimou's Red Sorghum, he makes passionate love to Gong...
...give the kid a break: it was just a warm-up. In the matches that mattered, Crespo delivered the goods, scoring nine times during Argentina's qualifying march. Overall, he has a strike rate of one goal every other game?better even than English idol Michael Owen. Where Batistuta is a smooth assassin, Crespo is a wily pickpocket, deceiving defenders and slipping unnoticed into goal-scoring positions. At 26, he is at the peak of his powers, and although he hasn't scored in recent friendlies, he has looked sharp...
...just for fans anymore. Uptight players are resorting to beastly behavior too, and against their own sides. Roy Keane, the potty-mouthed Irish captain (Ret.), led the way with a lurid team-meeting harangue that caused manager Mick McCarthy to send him home. Rising to meet this challenge, Spanish idol Raul exchanged angry words with assistant coach Carlos Lorenzana. Even the icy Scandinavians are surrendering to their primal urges. Swedes Freddie Ljungberg and Olof Mellberg got into a scuffle in front of live TV cameras during a training session. The Danes mounted their own smackdown, a three-way rumpus involving...
...Many archaeologists and scholars agree that a third Buddha exists in Bamiyan?and that it escaped the Taliban's idol-busting spree. It's a whopper; this Buddha is believed to measure up to 200 m long (the upright ones were just 55 m and 38 m high). According to meticulous records kept by Xuanzang, a Chinese Buddhist pilgrim who trekked to Bamiyan in the 7th century, the Buddha is shown reclining?and dying; freed from his body, he achieves nirvana, or enlightenment...