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...sleek vehicle won the Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy prize; the Las Vegas handicappers had established Dreamgirls at prohibitive one-to-10 odds. That will put it among the five Oscar nominees for Best Picture with The Queen and The Departed. Other possibilities are the indie fave Little Miss Sunshine and the polyglot Babel, which was a surprise winner of the top Globe prize: Best Motion Picture - Drama. But Babel, whose story spans four countries and five languages, was as apt a choice by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which votes for the Globes, as the actor-laden...
...teams traded baskets after that until junior forward Brad Unger, who had ten points and a career-high seven rebounds, put back sophomore point guard Drew Housman's miss with 5:29 remaining...
...admits the sun's bounce could be bigger. Midali notes: "Being the first, you can't expect perfection. We want to improve the design so others can use it too." Lodge owner Ragozza is more interested in p.r. than the science, suggesting the town could even start a Miss Mirror bikini contest each winter. We can only wonder how the mountain gods would react to that...
...what hasn't changed about tennis? For one, the top guys have always attracted beautiful women. In 1957, Cooper realized he was in a hotel room next door to a Miss Queensland finalist, Helen Wood, who would soon become Miss Australia. Pestered by Neale Fraser into knocking on her door and asking her out, Cooper thought he'd erred when she eyed him contemptuously. "I can still see her face," he says. "But we went out and sort of clicked. I guess I wasn't what she thought I might have been. I was pretty shy." Their match became...
...journalist who is also a keen club player, the chance to hit balls with a four-time majors winner is too good to miss. Dressed in traditional white, Cooper takes his place on one side of a friend's court in the middle of a Brisbane scorcher. Any fears for the legend's health evaporate after 10 minutes' rallying, when the younger man is drenched in perspiration while Cooper might have been playing checkers in the shade. "You hit a nice ball," he flatters. "You play the modern way-topspin forehand and double-handed backhand." Cooper's style...