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Because Marcy Hawley is not only a preservationist but a parent as well, with a 16-year-old son at Wilmington High, the thin, cerebral publisher, who is married to the town's Presbyterian minister, has become a reluctant crusader for school reform. Serving on the local school system's Multicultural Advisory Board, she and other newcomers have been pushing for racial-sensitivity training and a minority-hiring program because the system, despite growing numbers of black, Hispanic, Japanese and Native American students, has just one nonwhite teacher...
...that many people watch CNBC, but luckily for GERALDO RIVERA, most of them seem to work for NBC. Rivera, 54, who has resurrected his career more times than Tony Danza, signed a major deal with the parent station that very well might re-re-re-establish him as a serious journalist. He'll be dropping the declasse Geraldo Rivera Show to concentrate on gigs like his appearances as "legal commentator" on Today and four new prime-time specials focusing on the law. Rivera, who has a law degree, says the shows will be "legal with a healthy dose of street...
Mechanic decided not to hide. He invited his boss, Rupert Murdoch, head of Fox's parent company, News Corp., to see where those millions of dollars were going. Titanic at this point was a four-hour work in progress. But Mechanic thought Murdoch would see that the movie--a tricky blend of action and romance--was "pretty remarkable looking...
...green slime is imbued with so much creative energy that one wonders why the characters are so universally dull. One possible explanation may place blame on Disney, which continues to recycle its old hits as guaranteed blockbusters. (Next year, expect retreads of My Favorite Martian and The Parent Trap.) Moreover, Disney's live-action films all seem to be reduced to slapstick violence between a paper-cut villain and a cheesy hero. And yet, even in last year's dreadful remake of 101 Dalmations, Glenn Close found room to make Cruella De Vil somewhat entertaining...
...thought the hardest thing would have been to convince the University to spend $1.5 million on a daycare center," said Elizabeth A. Gibb, a parent and former president of the board at the center...