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...higher testosterone count than the national debt ceiling; they solve problems with artillery and adrenaline. And too many filmmakers, strapped by the conventions of the shoot-'em-up genre, think they are solving the problem of beefing up women's roles by turning them into beefcake. It's steroid screenwriting. Cameron wonders, Why can't a (modern) woman be more like a (mean) man? Then he makes her into...
Last year, when Hollywood shot its wad on steroid spectacles, and the $60 million budget became a ho-hum affair, movie-goers provided a surprise punch line to the financial joke the industry had been playing on itself. For the first time in moguls' memory, none of the top three hits were an action adventure with a big male star. Ghost and Pretty Woman were romantic fantasies angled to women; Home Alone, the year's box-office winner, starred a nine- year-old boy. These modest movies were old-fashioned sleepers, whose success suggested a future for women's movies...
Outside the U.S., steroid use may even be waning. East German swimmer Raik Hannemann, who won the bronze medal in the 1990 Goodwill Games, said he took steroids from 1982 until 1988. "It was a normal thing all over the world," he says. With Germany's unification, East German swimmers became subject to a much tougher testing program, which ended broad steroid use, Hannemann claims...
...myth that steroids provide gain without pain dies hard. For years, physicians have warned that steroids could cause cardiovascular and liver disease, as well as sexual dysfunction. Nonetheless, some athletes still believe they can be taken safely. Now it appears that "severe psychiatric symptoms are much more common than severe medical symptoms," says Dr. Harrison Pope, an associate professor at Harvard Medical School. Pope says steroids can cause aggression, impair judgment and, in rare cases, lead to psychotic behavior. At least 10 steroid users have been involved in murders or attempted murders, he says...
What will it take for athletes to think differently about steroids? Maybe more cautionary tales like that of Rhory Moss, the 21-year-old star quarterback from New York's Hofstra University. For six weeks last year, he injected steroids into his buttocks, not to improve his football, he says, but to look good in a bathing suit for spring break. Within weeks, he added 12 lbs. to his 180-lb. frame. But an NCAA drug test detected his steroid use, and his coach sat him out of the semifinals of the NCAA Division III championship. His team lost...