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...sought after. "The only time it's dangerous to open against a commercial film is when that film is by Scorsese or Soderbergh or the Coen brothers," says Jack Foley, distribution and marketing chief for Focus, which is releasing The Kid Stays in the Picture, a documentary about maverick '70s movie producer Robert Evans, opposite the Austin Powers sequel...
...open letter published in the fall 2001 Radcliffe Quarterly, however, 27 members of last year’s class of fellows wrote that they were worried Radcliffe’s push towards world-class status runs the risk of “stifling the maverick and reducing younger professionals to assistants or designated heirs...
That's when Graham went nuclear himself, publicly threatening to join a campaign by local Democrats to block the shipments with armed troopers. That, plus Graham's reputation as a maverick, got the White House's attention. Rove stepped in, calling Graham two weeks ago and okaying a deal that would cap any fines at $100 million a year, sources say. Graham is now working with Daniels' aides to codify the deal into law. Then the plutonium will move, two Republican Senate candidates will get what they want and so will Rove. --By Michael Weisskopf
...songs were rock 'n' roll classics like Presley's All Shook Up and Don't Be Cruel, Jerry Lee Lewis' Great Balls of Fire and Peggy Lee's signature Fever. DIED. ANTOINE RIBOUD, 83, founder of Danone, one of the world's largest food manufacturing groups; in Paris. The maverick businessman began his career at his family's glass company before switching his sights to food. Riboud ran Danone, which now has $12.7 billion in sales, until late in his 70s when he handed control to his son Franck. DIED. KAIFI AZMI, 87, award-winning Urdu poet, lyricist and father...
...fewer babies to blow it on. And she's more set in her style, which means those little pink bunnies just won't do. Increasingly, Mom's favorite designers are offering pint-size versions of their products, while traditional baby labels get more adventurous. And then there are maverick lines like Texas-based Dookiewear, which prints onesies with such slogans as "Spawn of Freaks" and "Bad Ass Baby." --By Belinda Luscombe...