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Aguilera got where she is using some familiar stepping stones. At nine she appeared on Star Search, and at 12 she began a stint on the New Mickey Mouse Club. But her musical tastes were always fairly mature for a budding teen queen. Growing up in suburban Pittsburgh, Pa., Aguilera, who is half Ecuadorian and half Irish, had only a passing interest in the pop music of the day. Instead she had a thing for Rodgers and Hammerstein. She not only learned every note of The Sound of Music but even began singing the songs at neighborhood block parties...
...subbing his writing arm for the Iron Mike. He is no rookie, though. "In grade school I played a lot of sports," he says. "The difference is, we would just bring our friends and some equipment and play." He retired from sports in high school and switched from imitating Mickey Mantle to E.B. White, to whom he pays tribute in another article in this issue...
...flat-out comedies, movement means the rapid flapping of a wise mouth. Cartman and his smartass school chums will try talking their way back into the pop zeitgeist with the feature cartoon South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut. In Mickey Blue Eyes, Brit blueblood Hugh Grant plans to marry into a Mafia family and has to pass himself off as a Brooklyn gangster. Detroit Rock City, set in 1978, is about four guys trying to bluff their way into a KISS concert. It may remind you of I Wanna Hold Your Hand, made in 1978, about a bunch of kids...
...Jeff has a good car and a good crew, which is a big part of his success," Evernham says. "But he also has something extra, like Michael Jordan and Mickey Mantle had. He has a different sense of time than you and I. He can slow the race down in his mind, see things coming around and react before the next guy." The key in a race, Gordon says, isn't to drop the hammer "but to tell yourself to be calm, be calm, be calm. And just have a lot of patience to let the race unfold...
...back to doing what comes naturally. After Notting Hill comes Mickey Blue Eyes, out in August from Simian Films, the production company he and his girlfriend Elizabeth Hurley formed in 1995. In this light comedy, produced by Hurley, he plays an art auctioneer who happens to fall in love with a New York mobster's daughter (Jeanne Tripplehorn). The film allowed Grant and Hurley, in the name of research, to hang out with genuine Mob types in Brooklyn. "They really adored Elizabeth," says Grant. "They say, 'My name's Uncle Mikey, if there's anything...