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...risky, throw-caution-to-the-wind impetuosity about it. The two hitched up on the set of Dumb and Dumber in 1994, split up and got back together again just before the nuptials. Alas, the risk didn't pay off. Holly filed for divorce from the spandex-faced comedian on June 25, citing--and this is the shocking part--irreconcilable differences. The split had long been rumored, partly because Holly and the director of her new movie Long Time, Nothing New, Ed Burns, seemed to be developing a particularly affectionate friendship. Carrey, for his part, did a sojourn...
...leagues, the W.N.B.A. and the American Basketball League, which is two more than there were last year at this time. Since the 1970s, several other women's basketball leagues have folded, including the Liberty Basketball Association, which lasted one exhibition game in 1991 despite--or because of--lower rims, spandex uniforms and a much smaller ball. The A.B.L., which operates in smaller markets during the fall and winter, is known as a players' league; it pays more--the average salary is $80,000 a year--and boasts of having the best players (Olympians Dawn Staley, Teresa Edwards and Katrina McClain...
...life and set against the world of Irish dance. "If I make a film, I'll do it the way I want to do it," Flatley says with characteristic bravado. "If I make something, I want it to have a touch of class." And probably a touch of spandex...
Other cultural norms are turned on their heads under the category of "Superheroes," where visitors discover that, although the spandex-wearing ubermensches (and uberfraus) may be all the rage in the United States, in Europe they are used mostly for satirical purposes. Only in England does the serious superhero thrive, in incarnations like "Judge Dredd," found in the pages of adult comic weeklies like 2000 A.D. or Warriors. French and Belgian takes on the superhero yield either goofy results, like "Superdupont" by Gotlib and Jacques Lob, or satiric ones, as in the Italian "Ranxerox," a buffed-up, tank-top wearing...
...impact-loading exercise, jogging puts maximum pressure on the knee, especially once it has been weakened by a major tendon tear. TIME Daily's prescription for fitness: ride a bike. It wi ll provide the same aerobic value while putting no damaging stress on that weakened knee -- and the spandex clothes are cool...