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Drivers swap brakemen like prom dates; soap opera surrounds the U.S. women's team like a Lake Placid cold front. Before the 2002 Olympics, driver Jill Bakken, the eventual gold-medal winner, jilted Rohbock, her partner of three years, for Vonetta Flowers. Jean Prahm dumped her best friend, Jen Davidson, for Gea Johnson. Now Prahm has picked Flowers, and after switching to the driver position, Rohbock is teamed with roommate Valerie Fleming. Bakken was back after a two-year hiatus but lost to Rohbock for one of two driver spots on the Olympic team. Got it? "There's so much...
...princess who enters the real world of modern Manhattan. Then there's Gnomeo & Juliet, a musical remake of Shakespeare's tragedy (it worked for West Side Story) featuring garden gnomes, with songs by executive producer Elton John. Disney is also developing a new Three Little Pigs, using Caldecott Award winner David Wiesner's postmodern take on the porkers. But animaniacs don't see most classic Disney characters getting a face-lift. As Edna says, "Never look back, darling. It distracts from...
...DIED. CHRIS PENN, 43, husky character actor, comedian and brother of Oscar winner Sean Penn; of unknown causes; in Santa Monica, California. Best known as Nice Guy Eddie, the gauche son of a crime boss in Reservoir Dogs, Penn played roles on both sides of the law-a cop in Starsky and Hutch and a convict in Rush Hour. His latest movie, The Darwin Awards, premiered last week at the Sundance Film Festival...
...sojourn to the East had taught Cohen anything, it was that only she could make herself a winner. "I was always looking for a coach to make me a champion," she said. "But ultimately you have to make it happen." Cohen and Nicks now have more of a collaboration than a coach-student relationship. To toughen her psyche against the crushing pressures of competition, Cohen devours self-help books and inspirational stories of champion athletes. (She recently finished Lance Armstrong's bio.) "Mentally, I'm more prepared," she said. "Physically, I'm stronger. I used to do my long program...
With a movie résumé whose highlights are Mixed Nuts and Death to Smoochy, Jon Stewart won't be confused with Jimmy. But big-screen chops aren't essential to the job; Johnny Carson was a five-time winner as Oscar host. Besides, the new guy has miles of charm, glib ad-lib-ability and the planet's smartest comedy writers. If Stewart can't make this year's Oscar show the wittiest in memory ... well, the Academy could turn next year to another cool dude over at Comedy Central. Paging Stephen Colbert...