Word: goldberg
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Jennifer A. Goldberg '94 is president of the Phillips Brooks House Association, which organizes 1500 students working in community service programs. Goldberg says her gender has never been an issue in her organization, which she describes as "very inclusive...
...work we do serves the nation by focusing on the communities where we live," says association president Jennifer A. Goldberg '94. "We can make the most impact by working with the people closest to us. What I see us doing is working with communities of Cambridge and Boston to help people help themselves...
...made his mark, if not his name, in movies too. Sister Act, the Whoopi Goldberg comedy for which Rudnick wrote the original script, was last summer's boffo surprise. Other hands diluted the screenplay, which Rudnick eventually signed with the pseudonym Joseph Howard; but the movie grossed $140 million, so now, "although there is no Joseph Howard, his career is soaring." Rudnick's uncredited rewrite of The Addams Family ($115 million) is "the reason that movie was a hit," says Scott Rudin, who produced it and Sister Act and who hired Rudnick to write the sequel, Addams Family Values...
...Mike Ovitz so powerful? Very simple: most of the really big movie stars are represented by him and his agency, including Kevin Costner, Robert De Niro, Michael Douglas, Whoopi Goldberg, Tom Hanks, Michael Keaton, Bill Murray, Al Pacino, Barbra Streisand and Robin Williams. They also represent most of the top directors, including Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese and John Hughes. And most of the top screenwriters. The only weak spot, according to one of those reticent studio chiefs, is in music; there, CAA's client roster is peopled by such nobodies as Eric Clapton, Michael Jackson and Madonna...
FRESH OFF A CONFRONTATION WITH HOLLYWOOD HOT SHOTS ON health-care issues, Clinton adviser JAMES CARVILLE is still talking tough about Tinseltown. He offended some at a White House meeting that included producer Gary David Goldberg and Barbra Streisand. Says Carville now: "If a Hollywood producer who makes $20 million a year thinks I'm arrogant, that's unfortunate. If a $20,000-a-year computer programmer in Holly Springs, Mississippi, thinks I'm arrogant, that's a tragedy...