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They love the old man, and he clearly loves them. The argument here: Richard Williams, crazy as a loon and sly as a fox, is, in the wasteland of girls' tennis dads, an oasis of stability. Peter Graf's tax crimes and social infidelities polluted Steffi's final years as a champion; Pierce's belligerent dad was barred from the stands on the women's tour; at Wimbledon the Australian prodigy Jelena Dokic fought to a semifinal berth only after her father, having stormed the grounds ranting, got himself nabbed by police. The screwiest thing Richard Williams...
...song itself is crap. A guitar in the background chokes out basic chords with an simple Natalie Imbruglia-esque rhythm as Morrissey churns out such drivel as "I danced myself out of the womb...Is it strange to dance so soon?....What's it like to be a loon?... I liken it to a balloon." Gag. Is Morrissey washed...
That brought to my mind the recent weakness in the Canadian dollar, commonly called a loony, after the loon portrayed on the dollar coin. Coincidence? Or should the economists we send over to advise East European governments be supplanted by some zoologists? What if Belarus replaced the bunny with a silverback gorilla or a cougar? But does Belarus have any silverback-gorilla habitat? Suddenly, I threw down the paper. Since when did I have to start worrying about the stability of the Belarus bunny...
...back my dogs." Don't waste any sympathy on Gillett--he certainly doesn't expect any. Because Gillett is king of the hill again. Actually, 11 of them. His Booth Creek Ski Holdings Inc. has acquired 11 ski resorts in just over a year, the latest being Loon Mountain in New Hampshire. He's part of a trend in which four big companies--Vail Resorts, American Skiing, Intrawest and Booth Creek--are rapidly buying up ski areas. The four are banking on snowboarding youngsters and their two-planking boomer parents to create a new era of accelerating growth...
...have to wait a week for From Here to Eternity. (The 12th is Sinatra's birthday.) But if the sight of nation against nation leaves you cold, get topical with The Basketball Diaries (1995). It's said to have instructed that loon in Kentucky exactly how to shoot a bunch of your classmates. But high-schoolers, please: use rubber bullets. Happy viewing...