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Miramax has always had a genius for picking films. Sometimes it picks them out of the gutter. The Miramax tactic: find a pretty orphan, take it home, dress it up and show it off. When TriStar said no to Pulp Fiction, the Weinsteins eagerly said yes and snagged their biggest hit ever. Last year 20th Century Fox backed out of The English Patient just before the film was to begin shooting. Instead Fox pinned its Oscar hopes on another sweeping morality play, The Crucible--only to see it swept away, at the box office and in the Oscar race...
...classification. After all, how could one be a truly Orthodox Jew, one who loves the Torah and its Divine Author and His creations, and disregard the words of our teacher Maimonides: "There is no joy which is greater or more wondrous than gladdening the hearts of the poor, the orphan, the widow, and the stranger, for the one who gladdens the hearts of these unfortunate people is compared to God, as it is said [of God]: [He acts] to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones'" (Maimonides, "Laws of Megillah...
What does a princess do after happily-ever-after? Oksana Baiul of Ukraine was Cinderella. The poor little orphan who slept at a run-down rink, practicing on uneven ice to qualify for the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer. There she defeated the sport's two dueling ice queens and was suddenly royalty herself. Baiul, at 16, was embraced by a worldwide audience hungry for miracles and was beloved by Americans who were willing to pay handsomely to see success stories. Baiul went to America to become perhaps the most highly paid newcomer in professional figure skating (with...
Discipline, however, is hardly the first requirement in the showy professional world. "It makes sense for an orphan to go for the bucks and kick back a bit," says Christine Brennan, author of Inside Edge, a best-selling book on skating. "But what Oksana did is equivalent to Tiger Woods' winning the Masters this year and saying, 'That's it, I'm leaving the P.G.A. Tour, and I'm going to play in pro-ams and exhibitions for the rest of my career.'" Brennan believes Baiul should have kept on a hard training routine for 1998 instead of settling...
BLOOMFIELD, Conn: Hailed in 1993 as an ethereal "ice princess" by TIME's Susanna Schrobsdorff, Oksana Baiul is attempting to set her crown straight after skidding her green Mercedes off the highway and into some Connecticut shrubbery Sunday morning. An unknown Ukrainian orphan who first emerged as an international sports celebrity after cinching an Olympic gold in 1994 at the age of 16, Oksana had slipped to the sidelines of world competition, plagued by back and knee injuries, weight gain and the distractions of stardom. On Tuesday, police charged Baiul, 19, who now lives in Connecticut, with drinking and reckless...