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Section B·Page 4
The University Daily Kansan
Friday, December 8, 2000
Women, minority directors lacking report concludes
By Lunn Elber The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — The entertainment industry hasn't lived up to its vow to hire more women and minorities for directing jobs, according to a new report from the Directors Guild of America.
The job rate for women film directors dropped in 1999 from the year before, while the rate for minority directors nudged upward only slightly, according to guild figures released late Wednesday.
"The employers have repeatedly promised to do everything they can to provide more opportunities for women and minorities to establish their careers as members of the directorial team," said Jack Shea, guild president. "This report clearly shows they are not actively pursuing the fulfillment of that promise."
Women film directors accounted for 7.4 percent of the total days worked by guild directors during 1999, down from 8.5 percent in 1998
African-American directors netted small gains in the film area, with 5.4 percent of the total days worked in 1999 compared with 4.2 percent the previous year.
Offsetting that gain, however was a drop in hiring of African-Americans for TV tape production jobs, such as reality programs, the report said. Women directors, in contrast, enjoyed a hiring boost in the TV tape arena.
African-American directors for TV tape projects worked 2.4 percent of the total worked by guild directors in 1999, down from 6 percent in 1998 and the lowest employment level for black tape directors since 1990.
Entertainment companies have
"This report clearly shows
Jack Shea
of that promise."
This report clearly shows they are not actively pursuing the fulfillment of that promise."
Directors Guild of America president
come under fire from minority groups who say the industry fails to reflect the nation's racial diversity. Last year, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People joined forces with other civil rights groups to foster diversity in broadcast television.
A call to the NAACP's Beverly Hills office placed after business hours Wednesday rang unanswered.
Other findings from the guild's report:
Hispanic directors worked 1.1 percent of total guild director workdays in 1999, down from 1.9 percent the year before, while in tape they worked 3 percent of total days worked, down from 3.7 percent in 1998.
Asian-American film directors worked 1.5 percent of total 1999 workdays, up from 1.1 percent in '98, while tape directors worked 1.8 percent in 1999, up from 1.7 percent the year before.
A bright spot was the increase in the percentage of total days worked by women tape directors, which rose from 15.8 percent in 1998 to 22.3 percent last year.
"These disappointing employment figures only serve to strengthen the DGA's commitment to leveling the playing field for women and minorities in all guild categories," said Martha Coolidge, guild first vice president.
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Angelina Jolie plays game hero in Tomb Raider
By Christy Lemire The Associate Press
NEW YORK — Angelina Jolie is nervous.
In a phone interview this week from London, where she was wrapping up filming on Tomb Raider, Jolie said a lot of decisions went into taking Lara Croft from the computer screen to the silver screen.
Yes, you read that right. The Oscar-winning, headline-grabbing actress is actually worried about how her turn as popular video-game heroine Lara Croft will be received when the movie version of *Tomb Raider* hits theaters in June.
"There are so many people who love this game," she said. "She's their girl, and you don't want to take away the thing they love about her. You hope you do justice to what everyone wanted. You pray you got it right."
Lara Croft is the star of Eidos Interactive's Tomb Raider video-game series, which has generated $500 million in sales since its 1996 debut. She's an archaeologist, photojournalist and British aristocrat, who travels the globe (wearing tight clothes, of course) seeking adventure.
She's a woman, and she's curvy and cheeky and playful and wicked, and we didn't try to make her macho."
"We decided she was human now, and she wasn't perfect. I gained weight and worked out, and my shape changed," she said.
Although she couldn't divulge much about the plot, Jolie, 25, said the role was one of the most physically demanding of her career.She had to learn boxing, kickboxing, yoga, bungee ballet, dogsledding, gymnastics and weapons training - some of which she already knew as an avid dagger collector.
"It's like joining the army," she said. "I almost recommend to everyone sending themselves off to some insane boot camp and traveling the world and taking themselves out of their normal life and getting free."
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4 Low-boost coffee?
9 Guitar stroke
14 Lingerie买ine
15 Lacking substance
16 Pokey fun at
17 Jewelry from
20 Free from a stry
Ore refiners
Classified __
Small-scale
Quaker pronoun
Trucker's perch
Criticize severely
Female
"Ohhello" villain
13 President
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City south of Gainesville
Pixie
Ruth's mother-in-law
Rebuilds the citizenry
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23 Sleeper slowly
Mas' mates
Fashionable
Papa's boy
Pleasure
Captive of Paris
Coop resident
Gun-sight adjustments
Scores
54 Maiden
58 Hautebus
59 Rot-resistant wood
60 Exist
Arizona city
Obscures
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DOWN
1. Flows back
2. Remove fat
3. Former name of Tainaron
4. Unbelievably low priced
5. Went in
12/8/00
6 Largest city in Africa
7 Pismires
8 Cost to play
9 Cram for finals
10 Survival
11 Talke tunes
12 Play for a fool
13 Stag party attendees
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14 Yule wood
14 Resting atop
Solutions to Thursday's crossword
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46 Cherished
48 Jackson or
Ocean
49 Brahman
50 Villainous Uriah
51 in good health
52 Book before
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54 Impromptu
55 Writer Burrows
56 Male cat
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