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Cooper made all the ruckus seem a little bit silly, pinning Chris Bernier in thirty seconds...
...ruckus has achieved what Moore wanted: to stoke debate on the sins of corporate America and to sell tickets to his movie. Roger & Me proves that with a lot of talent and a bit of righteous self-promotion, you can be a town scourge and a local hero. You can also become a former member of the working poor. Moore made his film for a pinchpenny $260,000 and sold it to Warner Bros. for $3 million. What's bad for General Motors is good for Michael Moore...
...rejected any suggestion that Sotheby's was worried about losing business. "You don't grow from $400 million to nearly $3 billion in annual sales within five years if people don't have confidence in you," he says. Still, Ainslie concedes that the timing was intended to avoid any ruckus before Sotheby's big spring sales of impressionist paintings in New York City and London...
TRAVELS (PBS, debuting Oct. 2, 8 p.m. on most stations). Worn out from the Days of Rage ruckus, PBS returns to more placid pleasures. This twelve-part series will follow different travelers on unusual journeys around the globe...
Mikhail Gorbachev needs this ruckus about as much as Custer needed more Indians. The Soviet President is already trying to cope with a sour national mood that is turning bitter amid steadily worsening shortages of meat, sugar, butter, salt, matches, soap and even warm winter clothing. Now tea, a beverage the Soviets consume in vast quantities, has suddenly disappeared from store shelves. Said a woman standing in line for lemons in Moscow: "They talk about the years of stagnation ((Gorbachev's term for the Brezhnev era)), but at least while we stagnated...