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NAME: David ("Don't Call Me Jack") Cassidy OCCUPATION: Onetime pop idol BEST PUNCH: Produced a homage to the Rat Pack at Vegas' Desert Inn in which actors croon, banter and re-create, in the words of the show's publicity material, the "swingin'est of eras...
Inspired by her idol, Rebecca Lobo of the Women's National Basketball Association, Eva plays on five teams at once. Meals are on the fly, and other social activities are rare. Mar can only pray that the sacrifice will pay off in college aid. "By the time I graduate, it's going to be almost time for the two eldest kids to go to college," she says. "I'll need all the help I can get to pay for their education...
Overcoming early jitters against MaliVai Washington, the 1996 Wimbledon runner-up, Blake defeated his boyhood idol, 1-6, 6-3, 6-4 Monday in the first round...
Overcoming early jitters against Mali-Vai Washington, the 1996 Wimbledon runner-up, Blake defeated his boyhood idol, 1-6, 6-3, 6-4 Monday in the first round...
...rigidly formal family trained to play rigidly formal public roles, and partly through her shrewd manipulation of the press, Diana herself projected a compelling image of victimhood. Women in unhappy marriages identified with her; so did outsiders of one kind or another, ethnic, sexual or social. Like many religious idols, she was openly abused and ridiculed, in her case by the same press that stoked the public worship of her. And finally she became the ultimate victim of her own fame: pursued by paparazzi, she became a twisted and battered body in a limousine. It was a fittingly tawdry...