Monday, Mar. 22, 2004

You Again? Bad but Back

By Rebecca Winters

MENUDO

THEN The 1970s and '80s Puerto Rican boy band launched Ricky Martin before a sex-abuse scandal--and taste--drove fans away.

NOW This summer, boys ages 10 to 14 who like to take off their shirts can audition for the next Menudo.

TONYA HARDING

THEN The figure skater's thuggish posse clubbed rival Nancy Kerrigan on the knee in 1994.

NOW Taking swings out in the open, Harding is boxing at a minor league hockey team's "guaranteed fight night" game.

O.J. SIMPSON

THEN Perhaps you remember that unpleasant murder trial?

NOW DirecTV alleges Simpson pirated $20,000 worth of satellite television. His lawyer denies it. Can 10,000 hours of the Golf Channel really be that expensive?