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Alexander McCall Smith is fond of a fat - no, make that "traditionally built" - woman named Precious. Their relationship began in 1996 while Smith was on holiday in France. During that trip, he scribbled a few lines of a short story, which grew into a novel, then a series, chronicling the life of Precious Ramotswe, owner of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency in Gaborone, Botswana. Four books into the series, McCall Smith is not stopping yet. "To say goodbye now would be like leaving in the middle of a conversation," the 54-year-old Zimbabwe-born Scot says. "Rather rude...
...step head, having already written a screenplay. It took more than four years to get a studio to make and distribute the film, in part because Wilson refused to give the Vardalos role to another actress. Meanwhile, the day before 9/11, Vardalos, Wilson and executive producer Marsh McCall (Just Shoot Me and a head writer for Conan O'Brien) pitched the idea to CBS, which made a pilot and then shelved it. Wilson says she faxed CBS chief Les Moonves the film's box-office figures every week. Seeing those numbers go through the roof, Moonves proposed reshooting the pilot...
...Three of his former Cabinet members lost. His intervention to help shore up black support for his wife in the New York State primary by getting his former Cabinet Secretary, Andrew Cuomo, out of the race led to one of the most impressive losses of the election. Comptroller Carl McCall lost to Governor George Pataki by 16 percentage points. In North Carolina, former Clinton chief of staff Erskine Bowles wouldn't even let the former Chief Executive visit. Where Clinton did go, candidates like Maryland's Kathleen Kennedy Townsend and Massachusetts' Shannon O'Brien lost. In Florida, where Clinton went...
...more conservative upstate counties. In addition to slashing spending to avoid a state budget collapse (a $10 billion deficit is projected byMarch 2004), he wants to use money the state earns from a lottery to pay for college scholarships. So far, his roughly 13% support has hurt McCall and Pataki almost equally. "The ultimate question in this race: Is the middle ground that Pataki has tried to occupy no-man's-land, or is it anew base for him?" says Golisano spokesman Ernest Baynard. But Golisano has never managed to win more than 7% of the vote, and particularly...
NAME CARL MCCALL, 66 AGE GEORGE PATAKI...