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...films into two four-hour documentaries that are their own kind of classics. Now he is making a big Hollywood picture about Howard Hughes, a giant figure in business, aviation and movies. And he has signed Leonardo DiCaprio, star of the biggest hit in Hollywood history, to bring the legend to screen life...
...Pacers basketball team, by newly hired president Larry Bird. The onetime Pistons star led the Pacers to the play-offs in the three years he coached the team. Observers say the fact that the Pacers never made it past the first round and a long-running rivalry with Celtics legend Bird were the probable reasons behind Thomas' dismissal. Bird's former assistant Rick Carlisle is the leading candidate to take over...
...America Cricket Association says that about a third of its 10,000 members live in South Florida. Credit the area's large, cricket-loving Caribbean population. But the stadium plan goes well beyond recreational play. With Lauderhill, the county has set up a committee--which includes Windies cricket legend Lance Gibbs--to lobby the International Cricket Council to name the county as host to some of the 2007 Cricket World Cup matches, which will be based in the West Indies. Construction of the stadium, which could seat up to 30,000 fans, should start next year and run through...
...hour to play. Tennis gear costs run into the hundreds. Taking part in a three-day tournament abroad costs at least $1,500 per person, and the kids have to be escorted by their parents. Still, "so many people have dollar signs in their eyes," sighs Larisa Preobrazhenskaya, the legend of Russian tennis, once the first female racket of the U.S.S.R., and coach since 1964 - the one who raised and trained Kournikova. She frets that "crazy tennis parents" motivated by greed are pushing their kids like slaves only to ruin them. It's not just the poor...
...billion deficit, Schwarzenegger is not saying much yet, except that, in the end, it's all about leadership. And leadership is one thing we know for sure has fascinated Schwarzenegger for years. His implacable ambition, from the world of bodybuilding to Hollywood, is the most legendary part of his legend. "Arnold has been interested in power and authority--political power, financial power--forever," says George Butler, a co-director of Pumping Iron, the 1977 documentary that made Arnold a star in the world beyond bodybuilding. "I was born to be a leader," Schwarzenegger once told Britain's Loaded magazine...