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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...could do to keep from crying," he recalled later. "Even though I know that I can portray an 18th-century Frenchman if the role called for it, every time I go to an audition I feel they're looking at me only as a skin color." Hail feels that any actor should be allowed to audition for any role as long as he can make the characterization believable. "Besides," he says, "part of my and every other Afro-American's cultural experience is white, which makes me artistically capable of playing a white...

Author: By Michel D. Mcqueen, | Title: All in the Family | 10/5/1979 | See Source »

...theatrical complexion." She added that a play like "The Royal Family" is a dated vehicle, and needs deletion of offensive phrases like "shuffling two-bit." Marcela Davison, producer of "The Royal Family," says that she "never intended to have closed casting. That's a tenet of every show: I know that's a policy of HRDC...

Author: By Michel D. Mcqueen, | Title: All in the Family | 10/5/1979 | See Source »

...explain these regulations, the Department of Health, Education and Welfare--that giant bureaucratic machine which oversees Title IX -- issued more regulations. Those new proposals were originally scheduled to go into effect in April; then HEW said in July; but now, sad to say nobody in Washington seems to know when they will take effect...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Lost in the Bureaucratic Sludge | 10/5/1979 | See Source »

Some people say no. Like NCAA director Bill Flynn, who doubles as athletic director over at Boston College. Although he admits "I don't know much about it," Flynn has an opinion. Equal opportunity does not mean equal spending. He offers an analogy. "You don't say, 'You have to spend as much on men nurses as women nurses.'" Like our own football coach, Joe Restic. "Once you totally equalize it, you're not going to have a football program." He continues, "If you expect a sport to produce revenue, you can't cut back on the money for that...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Lost in the Bureaucratic Sludge | 10/5/1979 | See Source »

...fact, chances are that more people know Scheper the Broadcaster than Scheper the Center. He's the voice of Harvard basketball for WHRB and Marc Sobil, the station's sports director, says "everyone knows he's our best sports-caster...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Dave Scheper: The Center of Attraction | 10/4/1979 | See Source »

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