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...last weekend announced his candidacy at an African soccer conference in Cairo. Hayatou enjoys the support of the leadership of UEFA, the body that governs European football and is one of FIFA's biggest constituencies. As ever with football, there are agendas within agendas: UEFA is headed by Lennart Johansson, whom Blatter defeated for the FIFA leadership in 1998. But even with bitter enemies arrayed against him and a potential financial scandal looming, don't count Blatter out. He's a master of taking victory against the odds...
...STARTED Popular in Europe, they were brought to the U.S. by Swedish driver Stefan Johansson, who opened a track in Indianapolis...
They have cast themselves as outcasts. Standing apart at their high school graduation, they gaze at the proceedings from the Olympus of their scorn. "This is so bad it's good," says Rebecca (Scarlett Johansson). Enid (Thora Birch) corrects her only friend: "This is so bad it's gone past good and back to bad again." The girls are subtle connoisseurs of bad. They have a favorite lousy comedian, ugly doll, porno store and, eventually, a favorite pathetic nerd. That's Seymour (Steve Buscemi), who collects old records and fresh psychic wounds. "I would kill to have stuff like this...
...took little tangents and enlarged them, and took things that were large in the comic and shrank them down to tangents. It was changed at the atomic level." Clowes remained an active force during the shoot. "I have never seen a writer on set so much," says Johansson. "I kept telling him, 'Why are you here? You're the writer.' Joking, obviously...
...agreed with the writer's belief that the girls should be played by actresses no older than 18. In the project's anguished gestation, Christina Ricci, the original star, grew too old for Enid. Enter Birch, fresh from her role as the daughter in American Beauty, and Johansson, who has been playing wise children for almost half her life (Manny & Lo, The Horse Whisperer). "Enid is an original," says Birch, now 19. "Timeless." So is the actress's incarnation. She gives Enid the stooped posture and scowl of an overweight spinster; she's a prematurely old soul. Johansson...