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...DUCATI SPORTS BIKE MH900e Like a futurist painting, this sensuously sleek Italian motorbike, designed in honor of champion racer Mike Hailwood, seems to move while standing still. And did it ever move! Just after midnight on New Year's Day, it sold out its first year's entire production at the Ducati website in 31 minutes flat...
...exhibition's auto-eroticism sector does, however, include one triumphal fetish--Larry Fuente's Derby Racer, 1975. Like some pious Latino decorating a shrine, Fuente glorified a convertible jalopy with an undulating crust of shards, beads, mirror fragments and pearly gewgaws. It is still a convincing, near folk object--an automotive equivalent, perhaps, to Simon Rodia's towers in the Watts neighborhood of downtown Los Angeles...
...pictures are terribly grainy, but that only makes the heat more searing and the intensity of the car race more exhausting. He works well with light and presents the hot rods in the desert as machines of lasting endurance and infinite speed. The image of a potbellied and shirtless racer in between two coupes, his arms hanging loosely as he surveys the landscape, is both quiet and loud. The picture is still and yet the buzz of the heat bears down on the viewer, screaming its aridity...
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...