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...Tonya Harding saga crossed a new frontier of sordidness with a plan by Penthouse magazine to reveal nude shots of the Olympic Bad Girl and ex-hubby Jeff Gillooly romping on their wedding night. Penthouse publisher Bob Guccione obtained a self-made videotape of the post-nuptials and intends to run stills in the magazine's 25th anniversary issue in September--plus sell copies of the tape...
America has a strange taste in atrocities and an elastic attention span for them. The 10,000 African children who die each day of starvation can hardly cop a headline, but Tonya and Nancy held our fascination for weeks. Some see O.J. Simpson as a hero, not guilty by reason of celebrity. Others want him to be unmasked as a villain, if only because it solves this riveting murder mystery. Until a jury determines his fate, he is neither. He is a minor pop star -- a onetime running back, a rental-car salesman, a modestly gifted actor -- in big trouble...
...consider the matter of wife battery. We managed to dodge it in the Bobbitt case and downplay it as a force in Tonya Harding's life. Thanks to O.J., though, we're caught up now in a mass consciousness-raisi ng session, grimly absorbing the fact that in some areas domestic violence sends as many women to emergency rooms as any other form of illness, injury or assault...
...found your attacks against him and his work completely unnecessary and indefensible. you neglected to mention that Alek (according to my niece, a Harvard student), graduated summa cum laude. You preferred to focus on irrelevant nonsense such as his asthmatic difficulties and likening him to the pathetic Tonya Harding. You also took a cheap shot at him by referring to how he is angling to ascend in Hollywood...
...Figure Skating Association stripped Olympic bad girl Tonya Harding of her national championship and bounced her from the professional group for life. A five-member disciplinary panel says Harding's actions surrounding the Jan. 6 attack on Nancy Kerrigan "evidence a clear disregard for fairness, good sportsmanship and ethical behavior." Harding denied she knew of the whacking before it occurred, but William Hybl, the former U.S. Olympic Committee president who chaired the panel, didn't buy it.To post your view, go to Message Boards and select "Tonya Harding...