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...socialize much with other actors. Two years ago, Hawke started his own theater company, where he presides as artistic director. Ryder collects rare books and owns an edition of James Joyce's Ulysses that features original drawings by Matisse. She is also a fan of the obscure, critically lauded Italian-American novelist John Fante...
...fact, a Boston Globe feature that ran in the fall suggested that the Defense Fund may have opposed the Dunkin' Donuts franchise on the basis of the proprietor's ethnicity. The article claims that the group has no Portuguese-American, African-American or Italian-American members...
...stands now, the ethnic studies movement at Harvard is really not all that inclusive. What these activists really want are the studies of non-white ethnic groups--namely, Asian-Americans and Latinos. They are not clamoring for Harvard to tenure a professor of Jewish-American or Italian-American history...
...Italian-American immigrants at the turn of the century were often beaten and called "just as bad as the Negroes." In 1875 The New York Times thought "it perhaps hopeless of civilizing [Italian-Americans], or keeping them in order, except by the arm of the law." Greeks were beaten and stereotyped as representatives of a lower species of human being. And Poles were called "animals...
...matching wits with (or being ignored by) Mario Cuomo: a 900-lb., microphone-wielding gorilla named Howard Stern, who announced he was going after the party's nod. "I think I have a chance to win," said Ostrowski on the eve of the convention, held at the semicapacious Italian-American Community Center in Albany. "I feel Stern is using the party for his own purposes. I don't think he's that interested in politics. It's his diversion for the year 1994. There's something called principle. There's something called honor." There's also something called celebrity...