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...chief diversity officer. Elam, who is African-American, felt the lack of organized support for women of color in the upper ranks at GE, and put together what she called the Multicultural Women's Initiative-one aspect of which targets high-potential women like Ho for a weekend-long bootcamp. Ho networked with other GE executives who urged her to be more aggressive. It recently helped her win a tough, new assignment as chief operating officer for equipment services in China...
...this is reality TV, the ripping off has commenced. Fox last week announced Skating with Celebrities, which one suspects will draw heavily from Hollywood's expatriate Canadian community. (Norm Macdonald, start lacing up!) Fox airs So You Think You Can Dance next month, and TLC is preparing Ballroom Bootcamp, both of which were scheduled before Dancing premiered...
...this mysterious mentor?" you may ask plaintively. "Where does the aspiring scriptwriter turn?" There is, in fact, a man on the faculty who bridges the gap between high and low culture. We call this master "David Gewanter." If the Lampoon is the bootcamp of showbiz, an independent study with Dr. David Gewanter is the final testing ground...
...remembers his brother Ignacio, 26, who has the same job as his father. "But he said this place was too boring for him." He also wanted to emulate his eldest brother Juan, who had been in the Marine Corps. Two years ago, while still in school, Alex got a bootcamp-style skinhead haircut. Says Dinallo: "Alex's feeling was that the Marines were a No. 1 bunch of guys and that's where he wanted...
...suitable for Richard Pryor, 42, or Eddie Murphy, 22. Coming off his Academy Award-winning performance in last year's An Officer and a Gentleman, Gossett is now working on a four-hour TV biography of Egypt's late President Anwar Sadat. The tough bootcamp bearing Gossett picked up during his stint in Officer should come in handy. For Sadat picks up the Egyptian leader's life when he was a junior military officer renowned for his rigid back and fierce determination...