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Eight current Harvard affiliate are among next year's Bunting fellows: Blair; Patricia Blake; Associate Professor of Epidemiology Marlene Gold-man; Diane Hoffman-Kim; Loretta Mickley; Assistant Professor of Surgery Marsha Moses; Suzanne Romaine, and Research Associate in Medicine Ellen Weinberg...
...slightly fidgety, her hands nervously shuttling one Camel cigarette after another to her lips? The 29-year-old actress had been on Hollywood's fast track, landing roles opposite stars like Johnny Depp and Al Pacino (Donnie Brasco), Tommy Lee Jones (Volcano) and Robert De Niro and Dustin Hoffman (Wag the Dog). Then last year--just as she was tapped to share onscreen kisses with Ford in Disney's romantic comedy Six Days, Seven Nights--she met and fell in love with Ellen DeGeneres, TV's first openly gay leading actress. Overnight, the couple, showing up at premieres...
...first time around, Mitchard was a virtual unknown: a Madison, Wis., newspaper columnist and a widowed mother of five. Then she got what has come to be known, for a select group including Toni Morrison, Alice Hoffman and, most recently, Edwidge Danticat, as "the call." Says Mitchard, laughing: "It fell under the category of 'Who knew?' I was dumbfounded, honest to gosh." On her follow-up book, the hard part was to exorcise all notions of trying to duplicate the previous success. "The temptation is to just write something like, 'He had a hairy chest, she had big breasts...
Would it have been better in The Graduate if the church door had held, and Dustin Hoffman had not been able to burst in on the scene and whisk Katharine Ross away? In which circumstance would the damsel have been in greater distress? Does love really conquer all? That, I always thought, was the point of the movie...
Source: SCIENCE; Hoffman And Novak, Vanderbilt...