Word: racer
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Since Girlfight, Rodriguez has signed on to play a cabbie in the drama 3 am (co-starring Danny Glover) and a car racer's girlfriend in the movie Redline (with Vin Diesel). She's getting plenty of offers, but she is searching for meaningful roles. "[Screenwriters] keep going at it with the same fantasy formula," she says, "and it affects women because it's the fantasies of these old white men. It's all about satisfying their egos, and I see it through the work. And it's tiring. It makes movies predictable...
...Saturday night, the women's 100 meters was exciting only in the way of Secretariat's Belmont: a superb racer pulled away, showing the audience what fast looks like - and faster. Jones ran a 10.75 and finished seven meters clear. Greene, by contrast, came out of the drive phase with a fight on his hands. But the focus of this big-meet runner was never sharper, and he accelerated after 40 meters like the Ferrari he had been driving around Coogee, crossing the line in 9.87 sec. "He just destroyed us," said Boldon, who hung tough for second...
DIED. KENNY IRWIN, 30, up-and-coming stock-car racer; after suffering multiple injuries when he crashed into a wall at the New Hampshire International Speedway--on the same turn that killed 19-year-old Adam Petty two months ago; in Loudon...
...Racer X is coming up. That was a good role for me...I have a background in race car driving so it's natural. I really like the script too...it's got a sort of Donnie Brasco twist...
...didn't need any help, thank you very much, there were also signs that a PlayStation 2 backlash is brewing. The machines that gamers brought back from Japan failed to wow the influential hobbyist magazines, largely because the games that came with them--titles like Ridge Racer V and Street Fighter Ex3--have not improved as exponentially as the graphics. "It's like a prettier tablecloth, but the food's just the same," sighs Tom Rosso, editor of games magazine Next Generation...