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...Northridge and then--lightning strikes again--was seen crossing a parking lot by mogul Dino De Laurentiis. Instantly she had the lead Asian role in his 1985 TV saga Tai-Pan. For more than a decade, Chen was excellent in good movies and amusing in bad ones. In Stanley Kwan's Red Rose, White Rose she is a figure of eros and pathos, driving her lover quietly nuts with her desperate vitality; the turn won her a Hong Kong Film Critics award. Back in the West, she copped a less prestigious prize--a Razzie nomination for worst actress--when...
LIPINSKI AND KWAN Victory Laps...
...months after the defining moment of the Nagano Winter Olympics--Tara Lipinski's dramatic victory over Michelle Kwan, in which the two athletes skated as if they had, respectively, nothing and everything to lose--the rivalry continues, at least in the endorsement arena. Unfortunately, since Lipinski retired from competitive skating shortly after the Olympics, the pair has yet to meet again on the ice with anything at stake, though they both appeared together this summer on an exhibition tour of 50-plus cities. Still defined by the rivalry, they are friendly, but not genuine friends...
...part, Kwan, 18, continues to skate at an elite level, showing no loss of determination in the wake of Nagano. She won this year's national and world crowns--titles Lipinski had taken from her the year before--and is already pointing toward the 2002 Olympics in Salt Lake City. She also found time to graduate from high school in September with a 3.61 grade-point average; having taken the SATs three weeks ago, she is currently trying to decide whether college makes sense for her. "I always live with no regrets," she says, reflecting on the past year...
...bowling group, a math club, a 4-H Club, boy- and girl-scout troops, a debate team, a yearly musical, two libraries and a cap-and-gown graduation. In donated rooms across Wichita, home schoolers attend classes in algebra, English, science, swimming, accounting, sewing, public speaking and Tae Kwan Do. Parental support groups with names like BEST (Believing, Encouraging and Studying Together) and HOPE (Helping Other Parents Educate) crisscross the city, organizing field trips and swapping lesson plans. This year the Wichita Home School Warriors hosted two basketball tournaments, attended by 54 teams from around the U.S. and scouts from...