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...springtime for off-Hollywood film, with maverick hits like Fargo, Flirting with Disaster, The Brothers McMullen--and Pulp Fiction by that spawn of the indies, Quentin Tarantino. Redford had a fine, leathery hand in all that too. In '85 some 50 independent films were made; last year there were 700. They earned $735 million at the U.S. box office, nearly triple the gross in 1992. Redford's festival created an aura that welcomed young directors and persuaded Hollywood to do the same. Says indie producer John Pierson: "Sundance totally dominates the independent landscape...
...partisan loyalist. Kerrey, the only Medal of Honor winner in the Senate, was resolutely bipartisan and a conspicuous Democratic holdout on the President's 1993 budget. Daschle confesses, "I didn't know what to expect." Kerrey himself was divided (nothing unusual there): he was Bob Kerrey, Nebraska Maverick, not Bob Kerrey, Party Guy. But the situation was grim. The Republicans already had a 53-47 advantage, with momentum on their side. In effect, General Daschle was asking Lieutenant Kerrey to take on a suicide mission. Kerrey's former longtime aide, Billy Shore, knows why his old boss signed...
...wealthy running mate to help finance a presidential bid. His choice will likely be B.T. Golisano, president and CEO of Paychex Inc., a Rochester payroll servicing company. If Weicker and Golisano reach an agreement, they would immediately commence petition drives to get on state ballots. Weicker, who was a maverick in the Republican party while in the Senate, became Connecticut's first independent governor in 1990. Golisano ran unsuccessfully in New York's 1994 gubernatorial race as a third-party candidate. TIME sources say the duo is expected to seek nomination of Ross Perot's Reform Party. Perot...
Kevin Phillips, a maverick Republican analyst, breaks it down this way. Forbes: "He has got a message which is, 'If you've got money, be happy.' That works nicely for the upper middle class. It says, 'Don't take my stock-market profits; don't take my golf bag away.'" Dole supporters? "The old Republican solid-citizens' club. They don't mind that Dole doesn't have new ideas, because they don't have new ideas either. They have old verities." And Buchanan? "He represents the not-happy-with-the-way-things-have-panned-out, blue-collar part of this...
...session was intended to get industry negotiations back on track after Murdoch had pre-empted the other networks by announcing that Fox would develop a ratings system on its own. Colleagues denounced Murdoch's move as a cynical attempt to score political points. Indeed, playing the public-spirited maverick has become a Murdoch specialty of late: last week he announced that Fox would unilaterally offer free air time to presidential candidates during the upcoming campaign...