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...Wimbledon is the world's most boring tournament. There's hardly anything to do apart from tennis. You constantly find yourself yawning.' NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO, Russian tennis star, criticizing the lack of off-court entertainment at Britain's storied tennis competition in an interview with Russia's Sovietsky Sport newspaper
...human star of this summer's warring-alien-robot event film, Transformers; the voice of the lead penguin in the animated Surf's Up; the vulnerable bad boy in this spring's surprise hit, the Hitchcockian teen thriller Disturbia; and Spielberg's hand-picked choice to co-star with Ford and Cate Blanchett in the long-awaited fourth Indiana Jones movie due next May, LaBeouf is blowing up faster than a stunt car on a Michael Bay set. In an age when potential action heroes seem to be either rugged '80s relics like Ford and Sylvester Stallone or sensitive thespians...
...reality show Project Greenlight. Accustomed to hanging out with creative, chaotic grownups, LaBeouf came off as a charmer, a good sport and one of the smarter people on set. The film Holes, which came out the same year, introduced LaBeouf to two of his stand-in father figures, co-star Jon Voight (who's also in Transformers) and Spielberg. Voight lent him acting books and turned him on to the notion that his work could be about more than a paycheck. Spielberg, meanwhile, saw Holes with his kids and filed the curly-haired teen away in his mind...
...with golf, Kobayashi revolutionized his sport - yes, he insists, competitive eating is a sport - with his strenuous training regimen. Yet the day before he needed to eat at least 50 hot dogs in 12 minutes to have a chance of winning the Super Bowl of eating, the Japanese star with a Hoover for a mouth couldn't open his jaw wide enough to accommodate...
...heavy footfalls of pedestrians who'd scream if they noticed him. Though the story takes place in today's Paris, the movie has the vibe of postwar years, when the light was softer, the shadows longer. The subtle colors and textures of the food alone make Ratatouille a three-star Michelin evening...