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Puffy features on Beatty in various (non-Murdoch) magazines and newspapers have suggested that Fox, which was contractually obligated to make and release Bulworth , has tried to bury the picture, thus ensuring its status as a cause célèbre among pundits who'd love to stick it to Rupert, even if that means enriching his company.
Way back in 1968, when custodial care for kids first became the causists' favorite cause célèbre , the federal Children's Bureau and Women's Bureau jointly issued the findings of a survey they had conducted.
cause celeb (cause célèbre) former judge and, during the O.J. Simpson trial, a legal consultant for NBC Ira Reiner February or March 1996
In part due to smart publicity, which has bannered some of the bad reviews and commentary ("I have to tell you that this film upset me so much that I really don't want to have anything to do with it"--a New York publicist), it threatens to become a cause célèbre --and to be coming soon to a theater near you.
célèbre populated by such larger-than-life characters as Haywood, Darrow, and McParland; all wrapped around a history lesson about the class bitterness of a century ago.