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‘Diet Coke is for fat people’
Worldly wisd
direct from P
Never drink Diet Coke. Always pack
too much. Don’t be too easy. Try to be
born into the right family.
That’s some of the oh-so-helpful advice Paris Hilton plans to serve up in the
book she’s just been signed to write for
Simon & Schuster.
From the looks of the proposal that
was shopped around, the tome won’t be
quite as revealing as the infamous video
of Paris with her ex-boyfriend.
But it exposes plenty of things you
didn’t know about Paris — and quite a
few you’ll wish you didn’t.
For instance, the hotel heiress confides that sometimes she takes a shower
before a bath — but only “if I feel really
dirty.” (No details on how often that is.)
And who knew that the jejune jet-setter deigns to take the New York City subway from time to time? “It stinks — literally, it smells like p---,” she divulges.
Will the fashion plate buck recent trends and continue to step out
in those butt-baring designer denims
she’s so fond of?
“I will stay with low jeans until I have
a kid,” Paris vows. “Then I’ll have to find
special low-riding maternity jeans.”
Paris is picking up some pocket
change — less than $1 million — for
“Tongue in Chic.” The proposal obtained by the Smoking Gun Web site,
promises readers a dozen photo-filled
chapters on the World According to
Paris, including tips on how you can be
just as fabulous as her:
“Never drink Diet Coke,” she counsels. “Diet Coke is for fat people.”
“Only sleep on Egyptian cotton
sheets with a 400
thread count.”
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annoying,” she wr
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push-up bras.
It’s fun to
pretend you
have boobs
once in a
while.”
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The team is staying on the 11th floor of
the Mohegan Sun Hotel. A suite at the end
of the hall serves as the team lounge and
unofficial headquarters. It’s stocked with
food and beverages, PlayStations, televisions and a training table, where trainer
Todd Snyder can give massages.
The players love Ping-Pong, so the USTA
has had the table from the players’ lounge
at the National Tennis Center shipped in
and set up in the hallway. “I feel sorry for
the other people on the floor,” Roddick
says. He pauses. “OK, I’m over it.”
McEnroe has chosen Ginepri over Fish
to be the No. 2 singles player, despite Fish’s
slightly higher rank (21 vs. 25). McEnroe
thinks this is a good time for Ginepri to
make his debut. “I’ve been looking forward
to this my whole career,” Ginepri says.
In Room 1105, the team’s racket stringer,
Grant Morgan of Jay’s Custom Stringing in
New York, sets up his portable shop, a computerized desktop machine surrounded by
spools of string, a slew of rackets and a lineup of paints and pliers. He will string about
15 rackets a day during Cup week. Roddick
and Ginepri use polyester for the vertical
strings, and gut across the center, 40 feet of
string in all, calibrated at 63 pounds of tension. Morgan will have three rackets ready
for Ginepri on Friday, and five for Roddick.
“Andy’s tough on rackets, even when
he’s not throwing them,” Morgan says.
Roddick pulled down Bob Bryan’s pants
in the U.S. Open player lobby last fall, and
did the same to Mike Bryan outside the hotel
in Slovakia later in September. The team is
wary whenever Roddick is behind them.
as it gets,” Bob says. “We’re going to be on
ESPN. (Usually) we only play on the Tennis Channel.”
On the way back from the official draw
ceremony, the team is waiting by a service
elevator when Roddick sneaks up behind
McEnroe and yanks his warmup pants
down to his ankles, a full moon revealed.
The captain let his guard down and paid for
it. Two female hotel employees giggle.
Roddick, Yim, the Bryans and Phil
Farmer, the Bryans’ coach, all get buzz
cuts. Ginepri gets a half-inch cut off his
long, tousled hair.
The Ping-Pong table is back. Everyone
is happy.
THURSDAY
The Bryans have a band on the side,
and Mike is delighted to see Chris Miller,
their massage therapist, show up in the
lounge with his guitar. He takes it out and
strums a few chords. Four hours from his
Davis Cup debut, Ginepri groggily makes
his way into the lounge at 11:05 a.m. He
has juice, fruit and French toast. Roddick
checks out SportsCenter for the second
time in an hour.
“Where would my life be without
ESPN?” Roddick says.
He and Ginepri hit, then watch the film
“Elf” to relax. In the locker room, the players put their hands in and Fish, fresh off a
screening of “Miracle,” the film about the
1980 Olympic hockey team, says, “Who do
we play for?”
“U-S-A,” they all shout.
In the tunnel of the darkened arena,
moments before the U.S. team is introduced, Roddick says to Ginepri, “You’re
going to feel a rush of blood like you’ve
never felt before.”
After dropping the first two sets against
Jurgen Melzer, Ginepri sits down on the
changeover chair. “Have you ever come
back from two sets down?” McEnroe asks.
Ginepri says no. “You’re about to find out
what it’s like,” the captain says.
Ginepri wins going away, 6-2 in the
fifth. He gets a hero’s welcome in the locker room, knocked knuckles and raves all
around.
“That was so inspiring, I want to go to
Fish hits with McEnroe, and has Dr. David Dines, team physician, feeding him
balls. It’s a young team — the Bryans are
25, Fish 22, Roddick and Ginepri 21 — and
everyone is healthy, so Dines, of the Hospital for Special Surgery in Manhattan, has
happily not had any major injuries to diagnose. Fish rockets an ace. “That’ll work,”
McEnroe says. Fish is handling sitting out
gracefully. “I’d be lying if I said I didn’t want
to play, but I can work on my game, and it’s
still great to be here, with the guys.”
In the lounge, Mike Bryan orders scrambled eggs, hash browns, bacon, English
muffin and a side of oatmeal. He couldn’t
get to sleep until 3 a.m., his body still on
West Coast time. Bob, the lefthanded Bryan, reports that he fell asleep at 11, no
problem. “I’m screwed,” Mike says. When
McEnroe walks in, Roddick puts down a
granola bar and stands up and claps loudly and says, “Captain McEnroe.”
“All rise,” McEnroe says.
Roddick beats Ginepri in Ping-Pong,
and gets a rug burn from a diving return.
The Bryans share a house in Camarillo,
Calif. They also share a car, an E-mail address and a cell phone, after Mike left his
on an airplane somewhere. They won the
French Open last year and earned over $1
million, though their specialty is largely
overlooked in this country.
“Playing doubles in Davis Cup is as big
FRIDAY
Iraq right now,” Mike Bryan says.
“That was --- awesome,” Roddick says
as he goes to get stretched by Snyder.
In his seventh Davis Cup tie, Roddick,
team graybeard, cranks a record 150 mph
serve, and takes out Stefan Koubek in
straight sets.
YESTERDAY
It is a sprawling, self-contained world in
Mohegan Sun, and the guys haven’t been
outside in five days. “It doesn’t bother me.
We have a big window,” Fish says, eating
a bagel in the lounge.
The Bryans have a morning hit with
Patrick McEnroe and their coach, Phil
Farmer.
McEnroe does a live WFAN spot with
Chris Russo, in a place called the Wolf
Den, a little ampitheater in the middle
of the casino. Framed by slot machines,
a big-screen video of wolves and the hum
of gaming, McEnroe talks Davis Cup and
big-time tennis. A fan comes up to McEnroe and says, “Nice pick with Ginepri.”
“Thank you,” the captain says
Alone with Farmer in the locker room,
Bob and Mike Bryan change into their
U.S. uniforms — red striped shirts and
blue shorts — and begin locking in for the
second Davis Cup match of their lives, this
against Melzer and Julian Knowle.
“The emotion is so high now,” Mike
says. “You live and die with every point
out there.”
The Bryans win in straight sets, do their
signature leaping chest bump and take a
flag-waving lap around the court with Ginepri and Roddick. In the locker room, USTA
boss Arlen Kantarian congratulates everyone on a job well done. “If you need me (today) I’ll be on the sidelines drinking a margarita,” Mike tells McEnroe.
The official team dinner is at night in
the arena. Both teams, coaches and assorted tennis honchos are invited. After
a rousing, if expected, triumph, the frat
boys have put down the Ping-Pong paddles and rackets and are all dressed up in
their designer suits. They are in the quarterfinals, against Sweden. They will gather again in April, without the casino, but
with each other. Life is good.
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WEDNESDAY
Fish beats Mike Bryan in Ping-Pong,
both grunting loudly with each swing of the
paddle. “I got winner,” Roddick says, as he
heads off to do an ESPN interview.
At dinner at Michael Jordan’s Steakhouse, Fish good-naturedly teases a waitress named Bonnie. “Are there any high
school girls around here?” he asks. Roddick rubs Pete Pistone’s bald dome, then
tries to slip a half-lemon onto Fish’s chair
before he sits down. Fish catches him. “I
was overanxious,” a dismayed Roddick
says, before the guys go off to play Pop-AShot in a video arcade.
A beefy guy in a brown blazer arrives seriously on the 11th floor and announces the
Ping-Pong has to stop. Guests are complaining. The table gets folded up.
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top deck of the arena.
Fish wins a set from Ginepri and by U.S.
Davis Cup tradition, Ginepri must turn
around and bend over while Fish gets three
chances to hit him in the rear end with a
serve. Fish misses the first two, but nails
him with the third.
At the team dinner, McEnroe lifts a wine
glass and says, “Here’s to a great start and
winning the whole thing this year.”
A few guys hit the blackjack table after dinner. Ginepri loses $600. “We all got
crushed,” Bob Bryan says.
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