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...special place reserved for Essex Girl, a lady from London's eastern suburbs who dresses in white strappy sandals and suntan oil, streaks her hair blond, has a command of Spanish that runs only to the word Ibiza, and perfects an air of tarty prettiness. Victoria Beckham--Posh Spice, as she was--is the acknowledged queen of that realm...
...only part of the job: In reality, he will become the face of Major League Soccer, the AAA baseball of global soccer. Becks will bring his chiseled chin, blond locks, and all-round star power on the field and off it - and, of course, his pop star wife Victoria "Posh Spice" Beckham - to the United States. With a reality TV show in the works, a global soccer tour, a promotion with American football star Reggie Bush, and a budding friendship with Tom Cruise, Beckham is trying to do what many have tried before: popularize soccer in a mostly indifferent nation...
After finishing our dumplings (it didn’t take long) we simply enjoyed the view—a city hurrying by us. It wasn’t ornate or posh; it was far better...
...Mary and I really got to know Roger at the Cannes Film Festival in 1979, when he got us onto the yacht of Lew Grade, the Lord (literally; he'd been knighted) of ITV, and brought us into star-studded cocktail hours at Cannes' posh Majestic Bar; in one conversation about Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now, the smartest comments were made by actor James Woods. ("MIT grad," Roger whispered knowingly.) In between the partying, he managed to keep sending pieces, mostly interviews, back to the Sun-Times. That Cannes, he said, he saw seven movies and wrote 11 columns...
...though clever technology has made the sport more TV-friendly, with glass courts and white balls making it much easier to follow the action, broadcasts remain hard to find. Still, at its grass roots, the picture is looking brighter. Some 180 years since pupils at England's posh Harrow school invented the game, children are again getting involved. A scheme introduced two years ago by England Squash offers thousands of kids as young as six a taste of the game's cut and thrust, albeit with mini rackets and a bigger, bouncier ball...