Matt Damon tells GQ that Tony Gilroy's first draft of The Bourne Ultimatum could have been a "career-ender," Mikhail Prokhorov prepares to submit a bid on a media company, and Dnaiel Day-Lewis did not steal Richmond's Christmas
Today in sports: Albert Pujols' wife was insulted that the St. Louis Cardinals wanted to pay her husband $150 million to play baseball, the cash-strapped New York Mets borrow $40 million, and the New Jersey Nets endorse Mikhail Prokhorov for the Russian presidency
After Russian President Dmitry Medvedev called for an investigation into the Dec. 4 parliamentary elections believed to be rigged in favor of Vladimir Putin's party, Mikhail Prokhorov, a Russian billionaire almost as audacious as Putin himself, has stepped forward to challenge him for the presidency next March.
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