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...liberal warrior’s battle is not only one of rhetoric and words, but one of attention-grabbing action, one of disturbance—one of pie fights. Pie Fight ’69, a film by Chris Bruno and Sam Green, documented the social disruption caused by a group of independent filmmakers at the “mainstream” San Francisco Film Festival’s opening night on October 23, 1969. A group called Grand Central Station arrived in a white van full of pies and hurled them at the star-studded crowd. Afterwards, a mime...

Author: By Eve Lebwohl, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Medium Obscures Message at Lost Film Festival | 2/11/2005 | See Source »

...resign. He denies this and has vowed to serve a full third term if Labour is re-elected. The Chancellor has declined to comment and Prescott admits only to having mediated between the two, not just on that occasion but over several earlier servings of steak-and-kidney pie. Evidently, even Prescott's formidable bonhomie wasn't up to the job. Few in Westminster believe any truce will hold beyond the election. Last week, Blair was forced to deny a rumor that he plans to move Brown out of the Treasury if Labour wins big. This scenario envisions a newly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fight Club | 1/16/2005 | See Source »

...would blame him for the bloodshed. Brown biographer Langdon concurs. "The one thing that will stop Gordon becoming Prime Minister is Gordon," she says. "He's his own worst enemy in terms of matching ambition to reality." The Labour Party must be hoping that both men opt for humble pie at their next dinner meeting, but nobody expects them to stick to that diet for long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fight Club | 1/16/2005 | See Source »

...Line (and this magazine); Viacom, with its Paramount and MTV divisions; and 20th Century Fox, which is mostly owned by News Corp. Big-name actors like James Gandolfini of The Sopranos and Dave Chappelle of Chappelle's Show are grabbing for a bigger piece of the DVD pie during contract negotiations. --By Barbara Kiviat

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Biz Briefs: New TV Riches | 1/16/2005 | See Source »

Though a mere fraction of the retail food pie's more than $500 billion-a-year total, natural foods' estimated $16 billion in annual sales is one of the few bright spots in a generally flat industry. Spurred by the soaring popularity of such natural retailers as Whole Foods and Wild Oats and expanded natural sections at the likes of Kroger and Safeway, as well as rising concerns about obesity, natural and organic foods are growing at 5% to 10% a year, and they could claim 10% of the entire food universe within a decade. "I don't think natural...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Biz Briefs: Food: Can Granola Grow Up? | 1/16/2005 | See Source »

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