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Hunter, a gold-medal prospect in the shot put, is clearly reticent as he hovers around the edges of the photo shoot. He has smiles only for his wife. Jones is easygoing with him as she smooths his shirt. She teases him and hardly seems in thrall to a Svengali. His career advice to her has been sage. He counseled Jones to quit basketball for track and brought in her coach, Trevor Graham...
...Hunter, a gold-medal prospect in the shot put, is clearly reticent as he hovers around the edges of the photo shoot. He has smiles only for his wife. Jones is easygoing with him as she smooths his shirt. She teases him and hardly seems in thrall to a Svengali. His career advice to her has been sage. He counseled Jones to quit basketball for track and brought in her coach, Trevor Graham...
...braids that it was time to change," he says. The band is pushing its new album, No Strings Attached, which is due to be released this week after a four-month delay caused by a $150 million lawsuit filed by Louis J. Pearlman--the Svengali who put together 'N Sync, the Backstreet Boys and LFO--after 'N Sync tried to leave him. They settled out of court, and the band signed with Jive Records, also the new home of the Backstreet Boys...
...will be released, as usual, first as an album (performed by artists ranging from Trisha Yearwood to Hootie & the Blowfish), then as a TV special, and finally a stage show. After that: Havana, a "musical comedy noir" set in the 1940s; a musical version of Alice in Wonderland; and Svengali, the second (after Jekyll) in what he envisions as a gothic trilogy...
...Travels, Halmi, who makes all the major casting decisions in his productions, has again married a middle-market star to some otherwise TV-unfriendly material. Armand Assante is our Odysseus here. (Conversely, Halmi has a penchant for pairing unnecessarily qualified talent to schlock product. In his 1983 TV movie Svengali, a young Jodie Foster played an aspiring pop star in love with her aging vocal coach, a part that found Peter O'Toole forced to say things like, "When I make love to a woman, I unwrap...