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...Confidential Guide to Classes in September, complete with a famous person (or cartoon) on the cover. Thus in the waning days of every summer, the designated Guide assembler begins calling agents, attempting to persuade a star to appear. Sometimes it works, as in the cases of David Letterman, Spike Lee and Dennis Miller. But sometimes, for one reason or another, the star won't deign to pose for the cover...
...detail paid off. Bassett's impersonation of Turner is the kind of star-making turn that every actress dreams of -- and practically every black actress in Hollywood wanted. Halle Berry and Robin Givens were among the finalists for the role that went to Bassett, best known previously for Spike Lee's Malcolm X, in which she played Betty Shabazz, wife of the Black Muslim leader...
Since then, Afro-American Studies at Harvard seems to have earned the academic legitimacy that it has sometimes lacked in the past: Professors and concentrators see an open, exciting and friendly department with the celebrity cache of visitors like Spike...
...easy it is to depict baseball as a simpleminded rogues' gallery of ego- driven owners and selfish superstars. In fact, Bonds' salary is not out of whack, especially compared with that of a journeyman shortstop like Spike Owen (lifetime batting average .243), who signed a three-year, $7 million contract with the Yankees...
...there is one more key difference between 1990 and today. The students of 1990 today can see a burgeoning Afro-American Studies department, one which has recently tenured another prominent professor and which has hosted high-profile visitors like Spike Lee and novelist Jamaica Kincaid...