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...that's why there are, at the moment, no surefire female stars; Julia Roberts is on sabbatical, Jodie Foster had a low grosser (Little Man Tate) between two hits (The Silence of the Lambs and Sommersby), and Sharon Stone is not yet bankable. "It's been a long time," says Columbia Pictures chairman Mark Canton, "since women have had any reliable impact on big box office." Decades, to be exact. In the '60s women were the top-billed stars in eight of the yearly box-office champs: West Side Story, Cleopatra, Mary Poppins, The Sound of Music, Hawaii, The Graduate...
...other hand, I would differ from my Department of Government colleague, Associate Professor Katherine Tate, who claims to feel "very resentful" about expectations of Black faculty relating to Black realities, and also protests that "I wasn't recruited to pioneer for the race." Tate's formulation over-personalizes the Black relatedness issue--or, by extension, the woman relatedness issue--rather than keeping it framed in a developmental context...
...professional journals, another source of applicant names, can also miss minority applicants, some scholars say. The sometimes exclusive connotations of the Harvard name, and the low numbers of minority faculty in the FAS, send a message to minority applicants which can be overcome only by strong University encouragement, Tate says...
...Both Tate, who arrived in 1988, and Harper, who arrived last year, recall strong recruitment efforts from their department chairs. Both got personal phone calls from the chairs of their departments asking them to apply, and neither had considered coming to Harvard before...
...Tate concedes that some Harvard departments "have reputations for not being sup portive for minority scholars." She has no answer to the problem she says but it cannot be ignored...