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...stranger to fundraising, Bush could raise millions for Yale and solve a lot of the budgetary problems that marked Benno C. Schmidt's tenure in New Haven. Maybe Bush could convince HUD Secretary Jack F. Kemp to stay on as a Yale housing maven. He could be the chief superintendent of the dormitories while he waits for 1996. His enterprise zones might do wonders for that garden spot known as New Haven...
...HAVE JUST HEARD FROM OUR OLD friend the Magazine Maven. "The NEW YORKER," he writes, "is the journalistic equivalent of a restaurant under new management. The new maitresse d' is Tina Brown, lately of Vanity Fair, where she offered a heady mix of roadhouse and haute cuisine. She has replaced Robert Gottlieb, whose fern-bar ambiance left customers hungry for less. Brown's detractors have been hoping for the souffles to fall and the drinks to be watered at Tina's Place, but her debut last week will disappoint them...
...make money on a picture like this is if everybody in America goes three times." But all will be forgotten if director Tim Burton, who has turned dicey projects into hit movies, can do it again. "Studios are paying more attention to the bottom line," says Anne Thompson, industry maven for the L.A. Weekly, "but they still spend a lot on these big locomotive items, the sequels...
Levitt shines both as the teenage Dungeons and Dragons maven and later as a beer guzzling husband. Levitt remains in character even when none of the stage lights are focused on him, and he commands the audience's attention with his sustained energy level...
...roller-coaster career curve is hardly unique. With the exception of a macho-arts maven like Steven Seagal, whose films routinely pick up an easy $40 million, nearly every modern star's box-office graph zigzags as wildly as an Axl Rose delta gram. Robert Redford and Clint Eastwood have dominated movies for a quarter-century, but their latest pictures have played in empty theaters. Robert De Niro, the most admired actor in films, went a decade after The Deer Hunter (1978) without a hit. Then he appeared in three commercial successes: GoodFellas, Awakenings, Backdraft. When Bruce Willis flexed...