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...feel very destined to have met her," says Debra DeMaio, executive producer of the Oprah Winfrey Show. "I have pretty much unconditional love for her." Says Producer Mary Kay Clinton, who credits Oprah with helping her conquer her shyness: "I get a lot from her spiritually." Oprah will be maid of honor at Clinton's wedding in August, and is financing the entire affair. That is not unusual. Oprah has regaled all her producers with expensive gifts, from Christmas bonuses to fur coats and trips...
...title character of her favorite cartoon show, shakes her radiant pink hair and makes her magical red earrings sparkle, Bianca is transported into another world. Jem embodies what Bianca would like to be as an adult: sexy, a singer and a success. "I don't want to be a maid at hotels when I grow up," says Bianca. "That's what my auntie is. She works for a hotel in the French Quarter. I want to be a singer like Jem. I'm going to have some red star earrings like Jem's, but they don't have...
...Suzie Doerr, a teacher at Bedichek. "These kids think life is fancy-free." Hermelinda Garza Perez, a second-generation Mexican American, teaches eighth-graders. "Their goal is to get by, not to get better," says Perez. As a child, she went with her mother to her job as a maid. "My mother always said to me, 'I don't want you cleaning someone else's commode...
...current programs at Columbia Pictures Television and one of the few Hispanics in a top studio position. Most so- called Hispanic shows are written by Anglos, and as a result depend heavily on outsiders' stereotypes. "Mr. and Mrs. Producer," says Rodriguez, "come home every night to their Hispanic maid and gardener. That is all they know...
...child in Mexico, South America and Britain before her family settled near San Diego when she was 14. Although her father was a middle-class gardener, she identified with those who had not yet fit into the economic system. She became a sometime actress who also worked as a maid and at a temp agency...