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...manager at Joseph-Beth Booksellers in Cincinnati, Ohio, "there have been so many studies done on girls. I think this is, I won't say a backlash, but it's coming back around." One popular title is Real Boys: Rescuing Our Sons from the Myths of Boyhood by William Pollack (Random House). It is boys who are in serious trouble, says Pollack, including many who appear at first glance to be doing just fine. Writes Pollack: "New research shows that boys are faring less well in school than they did in the past and in comparison to girls, that many...
...Pollack, a professor at Harvard medical school, argues that boys are hamstrung by "the old Boy Code--the outdated and constricting assumptions, models and rules about boys that our society has used since the 19th century." Parents, he says, must "get behind the mask" and find out their sons' real feelings...
Predictably, the renewed attention to girls has sparked a backlash. Parents are demanding that their sons be included in Take Our Daughters to Work Day. A surge of new books, such as Michael Gurian's A Fine Young Man and William Pollack's Real Boys, focuses on boys' emotional crises and academic problems in reading and writing. Researchers are exploring not just sexual harassment of girls but bullying and teasing of boys. A rash of school shootings by boys has brought calls to cut back on violent video games and provide more in-school counseling. And parents are objecting...
...Pollack, a clinical psychologist who teaches at Harvard Medical School, says most schools are failing boys by forcing them into an "educational straitjacket." Elementary schools lack male teachers, "sending a message to boys that learning is primarily for girls." Young boys, he claims, learn at different tempos, and perhaps the cutoff birth month for starting school should be later for boys than for girls. Once there, boys should be allowed to move around more, taking short recesses when they are restless. They should be able to use computers rather than be forced to write by hand before their small-motor...
Hollywood is abuzz with rumors that former superagent and Disney president Michael Ovitz plans to start a talent-management business. He would presumably bring along former clients, including Sydney Pollack, Warren Beatty, Dustin Hoffman and Kevin Costner. The fact that most on that list are over 50 has apparently not been lost on Ovitz, who is said to be courting Brad Grey (who declined) and hot young Hollywood manager Rick Yorn, of Industry Entertainment. Yorn represents Leonardo DiCaprio, for one. Other clients include Cameron Diaz and Claire Danes...