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...PATRIOT Directed by: Roland Emmerich Starring Mel Gibson, Heath Ledger JUNE...
...soooo silly in Ten Things I Hate About You) is said to give a rip-roaring performance as Gibson's son, but all eyes will be on the Lethal Weapon star, who was paid $25 million for his services. Competing against The Perfect Storm and Rocky and Bullwinkle, The Patriot will have to carve out its audience based on solid critical reviews-because if people think it's going to be another Godzilla, the adults will split and go to see the wave and the kiddies will go for the moose...
...northeast, the Ivy League, the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference, the Northeast Conference, the Atlantic 10, the Big East, the America East and the Patriot League all have automatic qualifiers for the NCAA Regionals. The best of these teams will get to host the six-team regional, but at most only four teams will stay. One team will lose its spot to one of the national top eight. Another spot will be lost to a Pacific 10 team, so that none of the eight likely Pac-10 qualifiers will end up in the same regional...
...other local teams that have already earned NCAA berths are MAAC champion Canisius (33-21), Big East champion Notre Dame (46-12) and Patriot champion Army (27-16-1). The Northeast, America East and Atlantic 10 will not determine their champions this weekend, but Long Island (28-17-1), Hofstra (38-18) and UMass (32-21) are the respective heavy favorites. Teams from these conferences generally do not get at-large berths to the tournament, but Big East runner-up UConn (37-17) has a chance this year...
Russell Crowe was not director Ridley Scott's first choice to play the gladiator. That offer, not incidentally, went to another Australian, Mel Gibson, who told Scott he was "too old, mate." Instead Gibson is playing a more age-appropriate he-man in The Patriot. And isn't that Guy Pearce, another Aussie, all straitlaced machismo in Rules of Engagement? Hollywood has discovered what we Australian women have understood for some time: the discreet charm of the Bloke...