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ANNA NICOLE SMITH says she's sick of all the jokes about her. So we're not going to dwell on the fact that her lawyer is named Howard Stern, or that Smith, 33, hasn't been attending the latest phase in the Texas trial over her late nonagenarian husband's fortune because of a hand injury she suffered while exercising. Instead, we're just going to air her grievance that Playboy, which discovered her and launched her career, has exploited her troubles by putting her on the cover of its current issue, running old nude photos of her inside...
...award in China's National Young Dancer competition. But at 15 she gave it up. "I didn't like dancing," she says insouciantly. The girl knew what she didn't want--and what she did. Snagging the crucial role in Crouching Tiger, she had to win over her stern director. At first disappointed in Zhang's performance, Lee was soon inspired. "We veered the film toward her," he says. "She is very sexy, so we used that. It made things happen. She is the most marvelous thing I've found...
...people think I'm crazy," she is quoted as saying in Sydney Stern's biography of Gloria Steinem. "Maybe you do too, but I never stop to wonder why I'm not like other people. The mystery to me is why more people aren't like...
...Colin Powell's persona invites instinctive trust. We feel safe in his hands as we watch him on TV, and find ourselves subliminally imagining James Earl Jones - not the Darth Vader version, but rather the stern but loving father figure of "Field of Dreams" or "The Lion King." That quality which once made Powell so attractive as a possible presidential candidate will probably also make his confirmation hearing one of those festivals of bipartisan deference usually reserved only for Alan Greenspan...
...MIGHT LIKE IT Looking for a male weepie with art-house credentials? Julian Schnabel's sprawling biography of the Cuban poet and novelist Reinaldo Arenas spans a half-century, two countries, two languages, two extremes of regimes. Batista's rapacious tyranny keeps most people poor; Castro's stern, homophobic communism keeps them miserable. Bardem, who was excellent as the crippled husband in Pedro Almodovar's Live Flesh, plays a noble fellow suffering at the whip hand of a sadistic dreamboat like Johnny Depp, then wilting tragically from AIDS. It's a serious actor's dream role...