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...designate a Person of the Week. Similar to those other honors, it will go to the person who, for better or worse, has created the biggest splash during the previous seven days?whether it's by doing good, making headlines or just keeping us all entertained. Our initial winner is a baddy, Abraham Abdallah, the audacious busboy in New York City who allegedly managed to accumulate phony credit cards of Oprah Winfrey, Steven Spielberg, George Lucas and countless other rich folks to pull off one of the simplest, yet most outrageous, frauds ever. The front of our book...
...simple, the anti-Dukies try to explain. Nobody likes a winner these days. Nobody likes a team that seems to have it too easy. We harp against the New York Yankees as we once railed against the San Francisco 49ers. And for years we've focused our negative energies on Duke...
...forgotten. Oh, sorry, they already are. But we were happy to see a handsome Asian contingent, including presenters Michelle Yeoh (come on, Hollywood, find a juicy role for this accomplished ravisher) and her "Crouching Tiger" co-star, the suavely unintelligible Chow Yun-fat. And to hear Peter Pau, Cinematography winner, zip through 37 names, most of them Chinese, in a 50- second acceptance speech...
...indelicate one about the Crowe kidnap story. (When it comes to tabloids, I read only the headlines. So help me: just whom was Crowe accused of kidnaping?) The famous bad boy from Down Under did his usual Oscar act, glowering and chewing gum. But as the Best Actor winner, he gave a gracious, charming and articulate thank...
...Hollow" note, the British Romans, the decadent incestuous homoerotic touches dragged in from "Spartacus," "Quo Vadis" and elsewhere) and on the video shelf, is never going to be more than routine escapist entertainment defaulted to when you can't find something else. Same with "Titanic" two years ago. The winner this year should have been "Traffic...