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...comparably priced baseball drama The Rookie was a much safer one for the same studio, since it appealed to a broader demographic. Box-office results show that boys resolutely avoid chick flicks. "If you have a female lead in a movie," says Oren Aviv, marketing president for Buena Vista Pictures, "only females are going to go. And you better have a star that girls want to see fall in love...
...Chinooks were not the only tribe turned off by Bersinger. Sources tell TIME that in February Smith brought Bersinger to an official meeting in Sacramento with the Buena Vista Me-Wuks tribe of California. After the meeting, sources say, Bersinger approached a Buena Vista lawyer in search of tribal work. The Buena Vistas didn't hire him. Bersinger also struck out with the California Valley Miwoks, from whom he sought $5,000 a month in a letter sent in March. Tribal officer Tiger Paulk says of Bersinger's pitch: "It was a shakedown...
...permission to use his name in marketing. "I was trying to get business," he says. He admits to having written the letters but says his appeals were limited to Amelia's and Paulk's tribes. He refused to discuss how he found Amelia or what he discussed with the Buena Vista lawyer...
...part, Smith acknowledges his close ties to Bersinger but says he did not know his friend was pursuing tribal business. He denies referring Bersinger to Amelia, and says Bersinger was at the Buena Vista meeting only by chance. Though he has never discussed official BIA business with Bersinger, Smith says, he has recused himself from the Chinook case and plans to do the same for the Buena Vistas. "I want to be above the appearance of impropriety," Smith says. --By Michael Weisskopf
...Stripes, as well as the immense popularity of the old-school country "O Brother Where Art Thou" soundtrack, as parts of a revolt against the self-conscious eclecticism that has become a rock clich?. That may be wishful thinking - "O Brother Where Art Thou" is most likely a second "Buena Vista Social Club," an anomaly everybody has to own rather than the harbinger of a trend - but popular music is due for a shake-up, and right now the best new ideas are coming out of rock that's just rock...