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Eberharter has been a downhill monster, winning four races this season in addition to two super-Gs. The downhill course at Snowbasin already has racers tightening their boots because it's so demanding. "It doesn't favor heavy skiers," says former Olympian Billy Kidd, now director of skiing at Steamboat. "There's no place where you sit in your tuck. It's very technical. You are always on an edge. Eberharter will be tough to beat in downhill and super-G." Austria also has the top-ranked woman in Michaela Dorfmeister, another speed freak. To find Europe's best mogul...
...classical sculpture? In many cases, no. He's built like a Greek god, goes the old saying, reminding us that the spirit and the physique have long been seen as mirroring each other. That mirror is cracked now. Too many modern Olympians are built less like gods than monsters - or monster trucks. And a few of them behave like monsters, too. Superhuman or sub? One sometimes wonders. If the Olympic Movement is a religion - and in its rhetoric it often resembles one - then its definition of sainthood could use some work...
...contest plea to charges of leaving the scene of an accident. As survivor and screw-up, Berry was ideal for the role of Leticia, the broke, hapless widow of an executed man who gets tangled up with a racist penal officer (Billy Bob Thornton) in the moody Monster's Ball...
...buffo. "If a movie script had nudity in it," she says, "I wouldn't even finish reading it. But I've become a woman who's a bit more secure and willing to free herself of her inhibitions for her art." Thus the startling, dramatically expressive love scene in Monster's Ball...
...Halle Berry "Monster's Ball...