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While the violent acts of any Muslim, practicing or not , are blamed on all of Islam, Goldstein was depicted as a maverick, or even a lunatic. Thus, the massacre was reported as a departure from the norm. However, Goldstein's act of hate was not an isolated incident...
...interest record companies in her iconoclastic music, a shotgun marriage of funk, jazz, hip-hop and angry poetry that she calls "brokenhearted revolutionary love songs." Finally, in despair and ready to enroll in barber school, she got a phone call, and a record deal, rom the head of Maverick, who happens to be . . . Madonna...
...Zhirinovsky's appeal was read much like the maverick presidential challenge mounted by Ross Perot in 1992. Zhirinovsky, too, campaigned skillfully as an outsider. He slung verbal Molotov cocktails at a system tainted by gridlock and inefficiency. And he aimed right at Russians' pocketbooks, denouncing the economic reforms that have hiked the price of metro tickets from five kopeks to 30 rubles, pushed middle-income households toward the poverty level and withheld wages from such key constituencies as the coal miners. But like the U.S. billionaire, Zhirinovsky had far more to offer in the way of firebrand bombast than coherent...
Costner, Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster and Kurt Russell are among the stars who will don Western duds for upcoming movies. Two films based on the Wyatt Earp legend are in the works; so are movie versions of the popular TV series Bonanza and Maverick. In prime time the western is making a slow but notable return, with shows such as Fox's The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. Ken Burns (The Civil War) is overseeing a 10-hour documentary series on the Old West, due in 1996. Lonesome Dove, meanwhile, has spawned one TV sequel, Return to Lonesome Dove (airing...
...stories about Siamese twins and celebrity divorces. She moved on to TV as a producer for Geraldo! and Entertainment Tonight before Simon & Schuster hired her to revitalize their Pocket Books division. "I didn't come up the traditional way, but I paid my dues," she says. "I am a maverick, and people can't stand other people's success. How dare I appear to have it all? Believe me, it is just an appearance. I'd trade places with just about anybody at this point...