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...using the technology since 1996, and cricket, rugby union and tennis (with Hawk-Eye) have all embraced the concept. Even Manchester United's Alex Ferguson now thinks that there may be a role for "instant replays" in soccer. Welcome to the video gang, baseball. What kept you? Richard Percy, Wigan, England...
...mind-bending exploits: some brave, some gluttonous, some merely odd. On November 13, 116 exhibitionists stripped down to their skivvies in London's St. Pancras Station. Some 175 miles away, at a juvenile detention center in Wigan, prisoners and staff took turns running on a treadmill in a bid at setting the fastest time for a collective 100-mile run. In Tokyo, a man dashed 100 meters - on all fours - in under 19 seconds. What did these oddball events have in common? Each was an attempt, on Guinness World Records Day, to enter the tome, which for more than...
...property at Australind, near Bunbury, 2,000 km down the road. "This beach area hasn't changed at all," says Wilson, fishing from the comfort of a deck chair. Wilson was a regular visitor to this beach when he worked at Newman's iron ore mine. Born in Wigan, England, he came to Australia in 1969. "But you definitely now see more people on the road around here." On the way north to Broome, the beaches offer solitude and bountiful sport fishing; it was in these parts in 1999 that then TIME art critic Robert Hughes had a horrific road...
...Empire of Dreams: The Story of the Star Wars Trilogy. On May 25, 1977, Star Wars opened, and it instantly altered the way Hollywood would do business, tell stories, reinvent reality. Yet at first the moguls didn't understand the revolution Lucas kick-started. "George was enormously farsighted," Gareth Wigan, the Fox executive on the Star Wars set, says in the documentary. "The studio wasn't, because they didn't know the world was changing. George did know the world was changing. I mean, he changed...
Ritchie won't be ignored either. After he came up with the title Snatch, Columbia TriStar wavered. "We did very seriously debate changing it to Snatched for fear of the vulgarity," says vice chairman Gareth Wigan. But Ritchie put up his dukes and won his title back. Now that the film has already been a success overseas (and you must admit the idea of hearing Mary Hart say Snatch is pretty delicious), the suits have come around. "I was wrong," admits Wigan. "The vulgar connotation hasn't even surfaced." Careful. No one thought Sean Penn would surface either...