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...soon proved herself worthy of the intense competition and risky skills at the elite level. A self-professed perfectionist, she exudes a graceful, dancelike quality on the floor, with a toe point that ballerinas would envy. Ray performs one of the most difficult programs of any female gymnast, which should place her shoulder to shoulder with the favored Russians and Romanians in Sydney. Already, she has a signature move, a gasp-inducing uneven-bars maneuver in which she flies off the high bar, twists 360[degrees] in the air like a diver heading for the water, grabs the bar, swings...
...formidable as Prescott was--6 ft. 4 in., movie-star handsome, a Wall Street legend and Connecticut Senator--it was Dorothy Walker Bush who pruned and staked the shrubbery. President Bush once described his mother, a championship-tennis player, as a "perfectionist, and a fierce competitor." She kept the Ping-Pong table in the entry hall of the Greenwich, Conn., house--the games were always front and center. Her rules? Never brag. Never quit. Never let 'em know you're hurting. Be honest. Be kind. Care about the other guy--help him. Don't look down on anyone. Compete hard...
...Give Me Some Truth - John Lennon 2. Pride (in the name of love) - U2 3. Just Like a Woman - Bob Dylan 4. Walking on the Moon - The Police 5. Pets - Porno for Pyros 6. Wild Horses - Rolling Stones 7. Scorpiorising - Paul Ryan 8. The Perfectionist - Saga 9 Surrender - Cheap Trick 10. Ashes to Ashes - David Bowie...
...STAR IS BORN and 17) INTERIORS Water as invitation to suicide. James Mason (Judy Garland's washed-up husband) and Geraldine Page (the perfectionist wife and mother of Interiors) walk into the sea, never to return. As if leaving an ocean lying around is not unlike keeping a loaded pistol on the coffee table--sooner or later, someone's going to pull the trigger...
...judge by reports from the set, Crowe could have played Maximus or Commodus: he was all warrior, all tyrant. A hard-drinking perfectionist, he got into brawls with villagers on one location and laid such waste to his rented villa in Morocco that the caretaker protested to Scott, saying "He must leave! He is violating every tenet of the Koran!" Crowe questioned every aspect of the evolving script and strode off the set when he did not get answers. Says a DreamWorks exec: "Russell was not well behaved. He tried to rewrite the entire script on the spot. You know...