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MaryJane Butters ("pioneer Martha") can tell you how to raise a pig. A few years back, she was camping out under the elements because she couldn't afford to rebuild her cottage after it burned down. Today she has a $1.3 million, two-book deal with Random House's Clarkson Potter. In her first title, due out in 2005, Butters, who made not having to leave her farm to do a book tour a condition of signing the deal, is expected to address everything from livestock to slipcovers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Will Be The Next Domestic Diva? | 2/16/2004 | See Source »

...security cleared the way for the star of blockbusters like Speed and Miss Congeniality, Bullock laughed as her entourage chanted “We love you Sandra!” and an unidentified fan threw a stuffed pig into...

Author: By Kimberly A. Kicenuik, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bullock Honored With Parade, Drag, Pudding Pot | 2/13/2004 | See Source »

...phrase "working actor," the kind of guy who does small parts in big pictures and looks forward to doing big parts in small pictures. Ever reliable, never anyone's idea of a movie star, he has soldiered for Steven Spielberg in Saving Private Ryan, played a character known as Pig Vomit in the Howard Stern biopic Private Parts and portrayed a cowardly orangutan in the remake of Planet of the Apes. So when he was approached to play Harvey Pekar in American Splendor, it seemed to be just business as usual--except that Pekar, the notably depressive writer of comic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Performances | 1/19/2004 | See Source »

Moms and dads who have tired of repeatedly reading the two Olivia books, by Ian Falconer, as bedtime stories will be relieved to learn about the third in the series, Olivia ... and the Missing Toy, wherein the young pig loses her favorite plaything and makes everyone miserable, though charmingly so, until she finds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Give Them a Good Story | 12/22/2003 | See Source »

...better elsewhere. Blame the government.' My employees and companies like this are the solution, not the problem. Our job is to prove that by succeeding - and live better, fuller lives for it." - By Bruce Crumley BOHEMIA: E.U. HEADACHES For many people, headcheese - a seasoned loaf customarily made of pig's- head meat molded in aspic - is a culinary turnoff. But for Jirí Hlavácek, a butcher in Susice, south Bohemia, it was for years an economic lifeline. A grocer by profession, Hlavácek went into the meat business in 1991 at the exact same spot where, four...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's A Small World | 12/14/2003 | See Source »

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