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...June Olympic trials, O'Brien had no problem with the pole vault, soaring to a height of 17 ft. 3/4 in., and despite less-than-par performances in the long jump and the 1,500 m, he finished first on the U.S. team, with 90 points to spare. This, say his coaches, is as it should be. "We don't even talk about losing," says Rick Sloan, who has coached O'Brien in the field events for the past six years. "People want him to get all excited about making the team, about getting that monkey off his back...
...lull the senses--and with, in theory, little to distract O'Brien, who suffers from attention-deficit disorder. His girlfriend of three years, Leilani Sing, 23, a former Miss Klamath County who teaches scuba diving, moved in with him in the early summer, and the two spend their spare time watching videos in the spacious home he built last year. Still, easygoing, accessible and sociable, O'Brien cannot help offering a piece of himself to all who come calling. His lawyer needs to talk to him about a Xerox deal and how to get tickets to the Games. A radio...
McGregor's Renton fulfills all the requirements for his position as narrator, his spare intonations and face on close-shaven head giving good expression to all the horrors he must experience (not the least involving an opium suppository). Ewen Bremmer as Spud mugs more than Tim Roth at his most goofy, cowering and jerky...
...Shaq Attack is going Hollywood. The Los Angeles Lakers announced Thursday that they have signed the motherlode of NBA free agents, Orlando's Shaquille O'Neal, to a seven-year, $120 million contract. The move to Los Angeles allows O'Neal, a recording and movie star in his spare time, to more easily pursue these other endeavours. While Laker fans are excited about the addition of a new megastar to the Los Angeles scene, the reaction in Orlando may not be as negative as one would expect. In a poll in the Orlando Sentinel earlier this week, 90 percent...
...different than living in a dorm room--I can make a bed, do some laundry and take out the garbage. Envisioning that those tasks would take at most an hour each day, I confidently told my friends that I would be working on the Great American Novel in my spare time. I was not going to be a homemaker. I was going to be working at home...