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...percent minority. In subsequent years, Mark Twain was converted into a school for the gifted, and demographic shifts—notably, a decline in the proportion of white students—have forced the school to turn minority students away. Last week, however, federal Judge Jack B. Weinstein overturned the ruling: “The defendants have complied with the 1974 remedial order. Mark Twain has been desegregated. The court has no further jurisdiction in this case.” And rightly so. For the 1974 order no longer served the compelling interest for which it was intended: avoiding racial...
...otherworldly nuttiness of Hollywood when it came to procuring the parking attendant vehicles for the film.“It was almost impossible,” said Miniucchi. “We were actually shooting the film and had not gotten the carts yet. And then Mr. Harvey Weinstein finally took pity on us. He had some sitting in his garage somehow. The strange stories of Hollywood. So we just borrowed them, no charge. It was very nice. He’s a nice man.”—Staff writer Mollie K. Wright...
...that movies are a business. And they're a part of it. The people whose names are on the ballot may be their friends or their enemies or their potential employers. In addition, lobbying in Hollywood at Oscar time is as pervasive as it is in Washington anytime. Harvey Weinstein was so expert at campaigning when he and his brother Bob ran Miramax Films that, the prevailing wisdom has it, he cajoled his way to a Best Picture prize for the modest Shakespeare in Love over Steven Spielberg's odds-on favorite, Saving Private Ryan...
...crowd, which included Victoria Hopper, wife of Dennis Hopper and head of Women for Obama in California, producer Paula Weinstein, actress Tracee Ellis Ross of the CW show Girlfriends (and daughter of Diana Ross), actress Journee Smollett of The Great Debaters and Vicki Kennedy - wife of Max Kennedy, one of Bobby Kennedy's sons - murmured their assent. All told, the women pledged to each bring 50 people to the polls with them and make a total of 2,000 calls before Super Tuesday...
Whether Polanski will do publicity for the film in France and other countries that don't have extradition treaties with the U.S. is uncertain, says Zenovich. But Harvey Weinstein, whose company purchased the foreign rights to the film, was overheard breathlessly speculating on that possibility in the balcony of another Sundance screening Saturday night. (HBO purchased the domestic rights...