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Disney Names New President For TV
Dennis F Hightower has been
promoted to president o f Walt Disney
Television and Communications, re
placing Richard Frank.
Hightower previously worked
as a Disney executive for consumer
products for Europe and the Middle
East.
He is credited with elevating the
quality and creativity o f Disney prod
ucts in the region and boosting retail
sales from $650 million to $4.5 bil
lion over an 8 year period.
“His proven skills as a leader
and builder match up well with the
talented and creative staff cultivated
under the leadership o f Rich Frank,”
said Disney Chairman Michael D.
Eisner.
D uring H ightow er’s tenure,
Disney’s European publishing oper
ations grew from 120 different Disney
D en n is F. H ightow er
magazines and comics published in
16 different languages to 180 maga
zines and comics published in 27
different languages.
He also established Disney cre
ative centers at strategic locations
around Europe.
Hightower said he is looking
forward to his new assignment.
“The Disney brand has never been
stronger worldwide and I am excited
to be part o f a team who will make it
ever more successful,” he said.
Before joining the corporation,
Hightower was a partner and manag
ing director o f Russell Reynolds
Associates, Inc., an international ex
ecutive consulting firm.
Earlier, he was with Mattel as
vice president o f corporate planning
and as a corporate officer. He also
worked for Xerox, the consulting
firm of McKensey and Co. and Gen
eral Electric.
He holds a bachelor’s degree
from Howard University and an mas
ters o f business administration from
Harvard Business School.
Author Says Women I lave Betrayed Women
Are today ’ s “second wave” fem
inists fighting for w om en's rights -
or simply perpetuating male bash
ing? Who Stole Feminism?: How
W om en Have B etrayed W omen
(T ou ch sto n e B ooks/A Sim on &.
Schuster Trade Paperback, $12) by
Christina H off Sommers answers that
question in a way that is sure to spark
controversy and debate nationwide.
Sommers, philosophy professor
and self-proclaim ed feminist, ex
poses the convictions o f the radical
new fanatics who she believes are
hijacking classic feminist theory and
tra n sfo rm in g it into poorly re
searched, highly inflammatory argu
ments that set women against men in
all spheres o f life.
Challenging influential women
such as G loria Steinem, Naomi Wolf,
Christina H off S o m m e r s , au th o r
o f W h o S to le F e m in ism ?
Susan Faludi, and Marilyn French,
Sommers evaluates the feminist in
stitutions and ideologies currently in
America’s Only Black
Arts Magazine Premieres
Collage: The National Journal
o f African Americans in the Arts
makes its national debut in March as
the only magazine in the country
devoted entirely to coverage o f Afri
can Americans in the visual, literary'
and performing arts David B. Brown,
Publisher and E ditor-In-C hief o f
Collage said, “there are certainly oth
er publications that cover limited
areas o f the arts or include arts cov
erage with general editorial or travel
and leisure features, but Collage will
focus only on the too often over
looked. but highly sought after work
o f African Americans in the arts.”
The cover story, entitled May
The Forces Be With You, focuses on
the Forces ofN ature Dance Compa
ny whose unique works enjoy a for
midable reputation on the East coast
but lacks national exposure. Brown
says, “Our selection o f Forces’ was
quite calculated. We want our read
ers to know that Collage will always
offer something different. It’s our
jo b to present the full spectrum of
African American artists--not just the
household names but the brilliant
artists whose work might not other
wise survive the fierce competition
for the limited arts pages in the main
stream media.
Collage recently hired eight new
editors to coordinate coverage in each
o f the specific arts disciplines that
will be highlighted in the publica
tion. The editors, Kim Jack Riley,
former Executi ve Editor o f Sazz (Ex
ecutive Editor); Francesca Simon, a
veteran celebrity interviewer and
m edia p ro fessio n al (E d ito r-A t-
Large); K. Leander Williams, a jazz
critic and writer "with several pages
o f feature credits including every
thing from the Village Voice to
J a z z iz ” (Ja z z E d ito r); T hom as
DeFrantz, a dance critic and doctoral
candidate a, NYU (Dance Editor);
Sharon Skeeter, a poet; lecturer and
former Editor-in-Chiefof Black Ele
gance (Poetry and Literature Edi
tor); and Linda Armstrong, a mem
ber o f Drama Desk, who has spent
the last eight years as a theatre writer
for New Y ork's Amsterdam news
and others (Theatre) are currently
working on the second issue o f Col
lage. Highlights include an interview
with Dorothy West, the acclaimed
Harlem Renaissance author o f The
Wedding, the Harlem Festival O r
chestra, the only professional Afri
can America symphony orchestra in
the world, in-depth coverage o f the
second annual International Confer
ence on Blacks in Dance and much
more.
C o llag e w ill be p u b lish ed six
tim es per year w ith an in itial c ir
c u latio n o f 3 0 ,0 0 0 . The annual
su b scrip tio n p rices are $19,95 for
in d iv id u als, 2 9 .9 5 for o rg a n iz a
tio n s and $ 3 9 .9 5 for lib raries.
For m ore in fo rm a tio n , call 212-
control o f disseminating public in
formation about women.
Sommers sees herself as a mem
ber o f the “equity feminists,” whose
main goal is to achieve equity be
tween the sexes, especially within
politics and education. She argues
that “gender fem inists,” such as
Catherine MacKinnon and Patricia
Ireland, whose doctrine states that
w om en, even m odern A m erican
women, are under siege by the sys
tem o f male dom inance, portray wom
en as victims and lack a grass roots
constituency. To rally women in sup
port for their cause, the gender fem
inists seek ammunition bolstering
their belief that our institutions -
schools, families, workplace — op
press women by operating under the
notion that men are the dominant sex.
W hen it com es to m aking
records, former basketballer and pe
rennial artist o f conscience Michael
Franti is a leaper. Just as the avant-
garde junkyard funk of The Beatnigs
(his first crew) could hardly have
predicted the aggressive industrial
rap of the Disposable Heroes O f
Hiphoprisy (his second crew), so the
music of Hiphoprisy is a tar cry from
the soul-based hip hop o f Spearhead
(his new crew). No longer a simple
member o f - or partner in - a band,
Michael is the founder and leader of
Spearhead. “Spearhead is my vision,”
he says. “I wanted to make a record
that you could listen to from start to
finish, again and again - at home or
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