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...They didn't have all the superstars, but they had all the heart: in a one-sided series, the underdogs DETROIT PISTONS overran the storied Los Angeles Lakers to take their first NBA basketball championship in 14 years. The happiest man in the Motor City was Pistons owner Bill Davidson?whose Tampa Bay Lightning had won ice hockey's Stanley Cup a week earlier...
...local landmark, the 120-year-old P.J. Clarke's tavern is renowned as much for its onetime clientele (Frank Sinatra and Elizabeth Taylor were regulars) as for its men's room, which features two-meter-high period porcelain urinals. These are famous for having ice at the bottom. Co-owner Philip Scotti explains that before air-conditioning and ventilation systems were invented, ice helped keep odors under control...
...extreme sport of the moment. "Four years ago, kiteboarding was just for a few determined and durable extreme athletes because the equipment was unevolved and you had to teach yourself. But now there's good, inexpensive gear, and people can take classes from certified pros," says Trip Forman, co-owner of Real Kiteboarding of Cape Hatteras, N.C., a kiteboarding school. Forman's outfit boasts 18 full-time coaches, and 6,000 people are registered to take lessons this year, double the number from last year. Students--including presidential candidate John Kerry--have traveled from as far away as Japan...
...mile trek from Portland, Maine, to Corpus Christi, Texas. Over the years, he was bitten by a sea turtle, a bluefish and a dog; hit by a tanker once and by freighters twice; and smacked in the head by a Coke bottle thrown by a pier owner who said Capune was scaring the fish...
...Broadway subgenre - which includes Encores! honorees "Du Barry Was a Lady" and "A Connecticut Yankee" - that Viertel describes as "the 'hero-hit-on-the-head-with-a-bottle' musical." The conked conqueror in "English" is a genteel Brit, Michael Bramleigh, who, after a head-bump, becomes Goto Schmidt, owner of Dresden's notorious night spot Klub "21." (Both roles are played, with an expert counterfeit of charm, by Brian d'Arcy James.) Goto and his girlfriend Gita Gobel (Emily Skinner) are forever threatened by the pompous Police Commissioner (Imus' man of a thousand voices Rob Bartlett), but even more...