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...Clinton is like King Arthur; she holds the fort while her knight errant goes looking for grails and girls. She is much more than that, of course--a tough and good-hearted woman--as he is much more than a longing boy. He too is tough and good-hearted (moral men do immoral things), and he has been a responsible and careful President. If he is out of control in one quarter, he is steady as a rock in the other. The hard part comes when one imagines Mrs. Clinton's knight, alone and in full and useless armor, looking...
Even more than hard work, luck or an agreeable mom, FUBU's success was due to a strategy straight from Phil Knight's playbook: it got the ubiquitous LL Cool J to sign an endorsement deal. The trick to hip-hop-fashion money, even more than offering slick styles, is somehow to get a rapper--preferably one on heavy rotation on MTV--to wear your stuff. Dr. Dre is dipped in Karl Kani, Mase gets giggy in Mecca, and Busta Rhymes is decked in Ecko. "Videos are hands down the best advertising you can have," says Mike Clark, the chief...
...attention and sympathy. Other films would use Simon as a wheel in the plot, but As Good As It Gets is sensible enough to create complete portraits of all its major characters. Cuba Gooding Jr. is amusing in a smaller role as Simon's art dealer, and Shirley Knight gives an understated performance as Carol's mother, who wants nothing more than to see her happy. She offers the sage piece of advice that "a normal boyfriend" simply doesn't exist...
...times, NBA royalty beat up fans, refs and each other, but Sprewell's attack won him a year's suspension--and the services of Johnnie Cochran. Now the streets are filled with cries of "Free Spree!" And the coach, who is no more a psycho Patton than Bobby Knight or Woody Hayes, must be wondering how an assault victim could become the perp. Advice to P.J.: This is hardball. Press charges...
Thirty-six seconds into the final period, an errant Crimson pass across its own blueline set Golden Knight sophomore Matt Reid up perfectly to go the distance and knock in his seventh goal of the season and Clarkson's second of the contest...