Word: sterne
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Perhaps that prepared him for the tug of wills on the Crouching Tiger set. Lee is as stubborn as he is gentle, adamant about putting on film the beautiful stunts he had dreamed of since childhood. Yuen had to play the stern adult. "Ang would say he didn't want to shoot things Wo-ping's way because it was an Ang Lee movie," Chow recalls. "But his ideas couldn't be worked out. Finally, he'd go to Wo-ping and say, 'Master, I'm wrong. Let's do it your way.'" At least Lee convinced Yuen...
...anyone but this guy would emerge as the next Man. But in his fifth season, the little one (6 ft. flat) is the biggest thing in sneakers. Averaging 29.7 points a game, he has led Philadelphia to the best record in the league (36-14), which renders commissioner David Stern delighted...
...named Clinton). As an NBA rookie, he was busted for having marijuana and a gun in his Mercedes-Benz (he got three years' probation for packing the piece). Let's move to the rap lyrics: preseason, the Answer, as he's known, released a vile, misogynist, gay-bashing CD. Stern summoned him to the principal's office. Iverson proclaimed the session constructive, and apologized to all whom he may have offended. Constructive, but not preventive: last month some louts in Indianapolis were riding him, and the Answer answered, "Go home, gays!"(He didn't exactly say "gays.") The exchange went...
...hear him tell it, commissioner Stern is sanguine. On Kobe vs. Shaq: "A bit of petulance both will grow out of." On Iverson: "You can focus on Allen's tattoos and rap songs or on the fact that he's emerging as one of the greatest guards of all time. I find it odd that a dad whose kids are listening to Eminem upstairs reads about Allen Iverson in the papers and says he's not going to watch anymore. He should be taking away those Eminem...
Instead of redefining the NBA as a league of the 'next Jordan' (i.e. Vince Carter, Kobe Bryant, or Kevin Garnett), Commissioner David Stern should rather focus on rivalries and multiple superstars. He has, as is obvious from Sunday night's All-Star Game, a vast pool of talent to play with...