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...reigning Olympic and African champions. Still, Cameroon is looking long in the tooth. The other team in this group is Ireland, which ran through the first round in '98 undefeated, and last year knocked the Netherlands out of the Cup. Mick McCarthy's men are made of stern stuff, and indefatigable captain Roy Keane is always capable of something inspiring...
...solid thesping, hire the Brits. McGregor tamps down his innate exuberance to play stern baby-sitter to Anakin but lends his scenes a thoughtful weight. And Lee has the tired majesty of a Dracula shaken awake in his sepulcher but with a few good bites left in him. He enunciates plot points like a teacher with a thrilling classroom style; his voice has cello music in it. His character also cues the film's one giddy musical moment: when Dooku rides a celestial scooter, composer John Williams borrows The Wizard of Oz's theme music for the Wicked Witch...
...fine with strip-club stripping," says Katherine Valentine, the affable redhead who plays the stern Teutonic M.C. Miss Astrid in Manhattan's Va Va Voom Room burlesque show. "But stripping is a man giving money to a woman in exchange for a sexual feeling. The burlesque thing has very little to do with that." Michelle Carr, who founded Los Angeles' Velvet Hammer in 1995, puts it another way: "Go to a strip club, and everyone out of the gate looks exactly the same. What we get is a chance to express ourselves creatively...
...Stern finished the season with a 7-3 record, 3.72 ERA and 57 strike-outs, good enough for third in the league...
Crockett and Stern faced off in the Red Rolfe Division play-off on May 8, where the pair combined for 30 strike-outs. Crockett prevailed in the 2-1 contest while Stern picked up the loss...