PARIS (AP) - Move over Scarlett Johansson! Mikhail Gorbachev is the new face of Louis Vuitton. The former Soviet leader is to appear in an ad campaign for the French luxury label, along with Steffi Graf and her husband, Andre Agassi, and Catherine Deneuve, said a statement Thursday from Vuitton, a division of the LVMH group, Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton SA.[...] Read more!
'WHOEVER THINKS he is objective must already be half drunk," said the Chinese writer Lu Xun. THE BIDDING on the Andre Agassi memoir went sky-high - $5 million! All but unheard of in publishing these days. The tennis ace went with the distinguished...
Happy Birthday To "Kill Bill" star Uma Thurman (1970), tennis star Andre Agassi (1970), singer Carnie Wilson (1968), rapper Master P (1967), hockey goalie Curtis "CuJo" Joseph (1967), "The Brady Bunch" actress Eve Plumb (1958), "White Oleander" actress Michelle Pfeiffer (1958), "Gangs of New York" star Daniel Day-Lewis (1957), "Star Trek Voyager" captain Kate Mulgrew (1955), eponymous TV star Jerry Seinfeld (1954), "SNL" alum Nora Dunn (1952), race car driver Dale Earnhardt (1951; d. 2001), pop singer Tommy James (1947), film director John Waters (1946), Motown singer Tammi Terrell (1945; d. 1970), "Three's Company" actor Richard Kline (1944), blues guitarist Otis Rush (1934), baseball player Luis Aparicio (1934), "All About Eve" actress Celeste Holm (1917), and prolific jazz bandleader Duke Ellington (1899; d. 1974).
Andre Agassi proved during a fundraising event in Texas that even the pros have amateur moments when his racket accidentally clipped his wife's lip....
The book is likely to include details of Agassi's marriage to actress Brooke Shields, as well as his current marriage to fellow tennis great Steffi Graf. His work with poor children at the Las Vegas school that bears his name is also expected to be covered....
U.S. tennis great Andre Agassi played his last match Sunday, losing to German qualifier Benjamin Becker in the third-round at the U.S Open. Agassi has said the U.S. Open would be his final tournament after a career spanning three decades.
It's been an American hat trick at Wimbledon, with Andre Agassi, Venus Williams and Andy Roddick all losing Saturday in the third round. Agassi ended his final Wimbledon match before his upcoming retirement with a tearful goodbye to his fans.