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It's also more controversial here in Butte, Mont., where Almodovar has been trying to rustle up the funds to fully restore the Dumas, a former brothel that opened in 1890. After seeing Almodovar on a talk show in 1998, Butte businessman Rudy Giecek, 57, who had acquired the dilapidated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Oldest Profession Gets a New Museum | 8/14/2000 | See Source »

"Garbage is not the biggest problem the river faces," Pregracke says, "but it's the one I can make a dent in myself." If this goal sounds overly ambitious for a shoestring operation with an annual budget of $200,000, you haven't seen Pregracke at work. He's tireless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Meet The New Huck | 7/10/2000 | See Source »

Is there anything in Hollywood more frightening than the possibility of more Flintstones sequels? E! hopes so, having chosen a sort of Tinseltown Twilight Zone for its first fictional series. Coming from the home of snide, shoestring productions like Talk Soup, this noirish anthology is surprisingly slick in look and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood Off-Ramp | 6/12/2000 | See Source »

"Radcliffe's cheerful estimate of the money we spend each week compliments our capacity to impress on a shoestring," they wrote. The 'Cliffies ball-parked the budget at $21. In fact, it was half that.

Author: By Vasugi V. Ganeshananthan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Harvard Man and the 'Cliffie' | 6/5/2000 | See Source »

Yes, Johnny Rotten is alive and well. The aging lead screecher of U.K. punk pioneers the Sex Pistols, Lydon still uses his old stage name and hasn't lost his sarcastic sneer--even if his spiky orange hair and Day-Glo togs make him look more like a Rugrat these...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Rotten Good Time | 4/17/2000 | See Source »

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