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Behind the bright lights and celebration, covered over by NBC and Michelle Kwan, there are dozens of little things and a few big things that the IOC needs to fix. Maybe cut some sports, or put the Winter Games back in the same years as the Summer Games. Spend less money on extravagance, or spend more money spreading winter sports during non-Olympic years. Do something...
...dresses have become ever more slight, with the acreage of flesh-colored fabric far exceeding the traditional sequins. And then there are knickers, or more specifically, the amount of fabric in the crotch area. European women skaters tend to be less careful than their American counterparts. U.S. champion Michelle Kwan's costumes have very concealing 10-cm gussets, while some of the European stars' undergarments are a skimpy 3 cm wide. Bryan Morris, editor of Ice Link magazine, sees no difference between skaters' costumes and those in other sports. "There's as much exposure in other sports such as synchronized...
That dry spell may end in Salt Lake City, if either Irina Slutskaya, 22, or Maria Butyrskaya, 29, performs to her potential. Their skating at last month's European champion-ships was shaky, but Slutskaya has defeated U.S. champion Michelle Kwan each time they have competed this season, while Butyrskaya grabbed gold from Kwan at the 1999 Worlds...
...Cinematically, director Stanley Kwan is a sober man and his film is imbued with the somber shades of romantic doom. He favors subdued over sensational. Handong and Lan Yu's one-night stand, for example, never gets to a state of hormonal frenzy: Kwan finds his thrill in the tender tremblings of first love. Production designer William Chang creates moody, claustrophobic interiors to convey the relationship's confining, emotionally charged intensity...
...story so close to Kwan's heart, you can almost hear his pulse pounding in surround sound. Based on a gay Chinese novel posted anonymously on the Web, Lan Yu was slated to be filmed in Beijing but authorities balked, forcing the filmmaker to shoot it clandestinely. The movie's flaw, ironically, is Kwan's closeness to the subject. An openly gay man, he's so consumed by the love story that Handong's marriage and even the 10-year chronology are handled like clumsy distractions. Ultimately, as a viewer, you can hear the heart pounding...