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...league's own television station. But if fans suffering from post-World Cup football overload are turned off by the wrangling, they might not even buy into that. TENNIS Open Contest, Closed Results What a difference a year makes. Last September Australia's young gun Lleyton Hewitt comprehensively beat Pete Sampras at the U.S. Open to take his first Grand Slam title, and the Williams sisters faced each other across the net for the first time in a Grand Slam. Now a Hewitt victory, the eclipse of Sampras and an all-Williams ladies final have become the norm...
...PETE ROSE On billboards and bus benches, Pony is campaigning for the rehabilitation of the former Cincinnati Red, who was barred from baseball amid accusations that he gambled on games. In this ad Rose reminds fans of his 4,256 hits, still a major league record...
...else. Meanwhile, he ground out more pallid imitations of "Teas." In "Wild Gals of the Naked West" - starring, as "Teas" had, a veteran of Meyer's World War II unit, the 166th Signal Corps (this time Sammy Gilbert) - the girls wore bejeweled pasties, "covering the money," as his producer Pete deCenzie grumbled. Even Meyer wasn't crazy about some of these efforts. In his rampaging autobiography "A clean BREAST! The Life and Loves of Russ Meyer," he writes of the 1962 "Erotica" that "the film made more than a couple of bucks" and adds, in a note of despondency rare...
Evanovich grew up in South River, N.J., where her father was a machinist and her mother a housewife. She met her husband Pete in high school and married him in college. She then had a daughter and son and followed Pete, who has a Ph.D. in mathematics, as he changed postings in the Navy. "I loved being a housewife," she recalls. "I thought it was very creative. You got to make things--cooking, baking, sewing. I got to color in coloring books with the kids and build forts out of blocks." But she couldn't shake a nagging desire...
Evanovich, by then in her 30s, worked on the typewriter in Pete's office after the kids went to bed. She knew no writers or agents. She began racking up rejection letters. Years went by; her career went nowhere. Advised by someone to try romance novels--which she had never read--she studied up and wrote a few. But when she crossed the 10-year mark in trying to get published, she burned all her papers and sat on a curb and cried. A few months later, an editor called to buy one of her books. Even now, Evanovich gets...