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...Hillary continues to defy the status quo, a drive that is not relegated to the past, but indicative of her future leadership. She remains the nation’s most visible advocate for women, whether it means ensuring approval of the Plan B contraceptive or championing the Paycheck Fairness Act to prevent pay discrimination against women...
...what Publishers Weekly senior religion editor Lynn Garrett calls the Da Vinci Code effect. "Speculative histories were out there before Dan Brown wrote," says Garrett. "But they didn't make the best-seller lists and their authors didn't go on The Daily Show." Or receive a million-dollar paycheck, as was rumored in a recent case...
...stopped doing characters. After he got traction as a stand-up, he retired his act, going onstage without any material, often being overtly hostile to his audience. When that got him a job on Fox's sketch show In Living Color and led quickly to a $20 million paycheck, he decided to ditch his devoted Adam Sandler-loving audience by making the disturbing, dark comedy The Cable Guy and dropped his price to make such dramas as The Truman Show and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. And now he's made The Number 23, a cheapie $30 million horror...
...away from me. That's what happened with Used Guys. My soul didn't want to be there." He says that he's not unwilling to do the sort of big comedy for which the studios will pay him tons, but he won't do it just for the paycheck, which is probably just as well, since it's clear he can no longer bring the crowd or command the fee he used...
...know what those challenges are today - a war with no end, a dependence on oil that threatens our future, schools where too many children aren't learning, and families struggling paycheck to paycheck despite working as hard as they can. We know the challenges. We've heard them. We've talked about them for years...