Word: networking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Food, fashion and network attitudes have changed since then -- but, oddly, not that much. Several Hispanic stars have made it to the medium's mainstream, among them Jimmy Smits, of L.A. Law, and A Martinez, the Latino heartthrob of NBC'S soap opera Santa Barbara. And a few prime-time series, from Chico and the Man through I Married Dora, have featured Hispanic characters and themes. But in contrast to their achievements in the other arts, Hispanics are still waiting for their La Bamba breakthrough...
...March. But the show drew abysmal ratings and was canceled after just three weeks. Juarez, a drama about a Mexican- American lawman in El Paso, was intended to go on ABC's prime-time schedule last January. It was abandoned because of "creative differences" between the network and Writer-Producer Jeffrey Bloom (who had his name removed from the credits when one episode was finally aired in late May). Among the pilots considered for slots on next fall's network schedule were NBC's The Cheech Show, a comedy-variety series starring Cheech Marin, and CBS's Fort Figueroa...
...lone Latino breakthrough on the networks for next season: Benjamin Bratt, the part-Hispanic actor who starred in Juarez, will play one of the leads in Knightwatch, a new ABC series about a community crime-fighting group. "It's absurd that we don't have one half-hour of Hispanic-themed programming on network television," complains Marin. "We can make stuff as bad as the stuff that's on." Says Rodriguez: "There is no lack of talent in our community, but we are waiting for gringos to toss us a crumb...
...marketing boys are having a field day. It's billed as "The Battle in Seattle" and "The War at the North Pacific Shore." Closed-circuit pay-per-view deals, cablevision, network television, international satellite link-ups. Even "Up Close and Personal" segments on such soon-to-be American sports heroes as Dutch winger, Ruud Gullitt. He takes it one game at a time...
...more and more women set up companies, female versions of the old-boy network are developing. The 3,000-member National Association of Women Business Owners, for example, successfully lobbied the House committee to hold its hearings on female entrepreneurs. Businesswomen who belong to the Committee of 200, an elite Chicago-based group of top executives from 70 different industries, discuss everything at their meetings, from where to find the best office computer system to how to balance a demanding career with a marriage. Says Member Joan Helpern, chief executive of the manufacturer of Joan and David shoes (1987 revenues...