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...fact, Bush is so popular that he needs a sophisticated maintenance | program to sustain his high ratings. In a slick piece of reverse psychology, he strives for underexposure: while most politicians crave attention, Bush made a conscious decision before his Inauguration to avoid appearing regularly on the nightly news. He not only wants to lower expectations that a President can solve the nation's problems but he also fears that his re-election will be more difficult if the public wearies of his visage in the first few years. "People get tired of seeing anybody on television," says a senior...
Movie moguls crave good scripts, but they hate to pay for them. So goes the age-old gripe among disgruntled Hollywood screenwriters, but it took an outsider like columnist Art Buchwald to put the allegation to the test. In a star-studded courtroom drama, Buchwald cast a bright light on the machinations of Hollywood's power brokers. Last week a Los Angeles judge ruled that Paramount Pictures used Buchwald's script proposal as the basis for its 1988 blockbuster Coming to America and failed to pay him accordingly. Paramount plans to appeal...
...further worry: the growth of private, or vanity, museums. Some American collectors of contemporary art, he points out, think of themselves as institutions, and this would make them reluctant to donate art to a museum even if the tax laws had not been changed. They do not crave the imprint of the established museum. They want the Jerome and Mandy Rumpelstiltskin Foundation for Contemporary...
...York City). The biggest mystery is how this unassuming little Manhattan shop managed to sell $1 million worth of crime and detective fiction last year despite the presence, within easy walking distance, of five chain outlets. The solution: Mysterious carries hard-to-find whodunits that mystery buffs crave. Says customer Steve Ritterman: "There's much more depth here than in a regular bookstore -- authors you can't find elsewhere." Owner Otto Penzler concedes that he does not do smash business with best sellers by the likes of Robert Parker or Robert Ludlum. "B. Dalton," he says, "has them...
Rushdie, meanwhile, has all the controversy, and attendant celebrity, he has often seemed to crave -- yet with a cruel vengeance. For years Rushdie has been one of Britain's most vocal polemicists, an agent provocateur who has delighted in mixing it up -- even if "it" means politics and literature. His first great novel, Midnight's Children, about India, was successfully challenged by the Prime Minister of India; his second, Shame, about Pakistan, was banned in Pakistan; now the last in his unofficial trilogy, about both India and England, has been banned in India and burned in England...