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February 26, 1985/The Maroon Tiger/Section A
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ARTS ARTS ARTS
A Soldier’s Story
Fifth Annual Atlanta
Third World Film
Festival and Forum
by Anthony Pinder
Arts & Literary Editor
The theatrical world has
already begun its jubilant rave of
Charles Fuller’s Pulitzer Prize
winning drama, ‘A Soldier’s
Story'. This motion-picture has
quickly climbed its way up the
dramatic ladder of success,
dragging a vast crop of fans
behind it. Thanks to Howard
Rollins of ‘Ragtime’, who has
emerged as Hollywood’s pick for
new and innovative roles, the
movie is magmficiently power
ful. The motion-picture also has
to its credit the fine acting of
Adolf Caesar, an established
actor, who portrays the rigged
Sargeant Waters. Caesar, who
has been mentioned as a possi
ble Academy Award nomination
for his portrayal in the film,
attributes the success of the
movie to the fact that, "A
Soldier's Story deals with the
realities of the human condition
including racism, national pride,
frustration, dedication, and am
bition.”
For Caesar, the charcter of Sgt.
Waters is one that he knows very
well. Having played the rugged
military image on stage for three
years, Caesar speaks of his
character with much more in
sight and awareness than is
usually coupled with an actor’s
knowledge of his charcter.
Caesar describes his character,
Sgt. Waters, as a man filled with
anger, frustration, and deter
mination.
After seeing this powerful
drama you actually begin to feel
Caesar’s portrayal of this man,
who at times appears to be a man
of great character and nobility,
though flawed.
This compelling drama has
many parables that relate to the
issues and social turmoil that
affect us still today. In this movie
you have a man, Sgt. Waters, so
consummed by self-hatred, that
he had already been murdered
by the racist system he had lived
and worked in for years, long
before he actually murdered
himself.
This is the type of motion
picture that can serve, not only as
a mode of entertainment, but
also a piece of visual history as
well. Here we have a
predominantly all black cast with
blacks absorbing all the lead
roles, and the message totally
ours to assimilate.
If you have not seen this
motion-picture, you owe it to
yourself to check it outl
On Sunday, March 3, the fifth
annual ATLANTA THIRD
WORLD FILM FESTIVAL AND
FORUM will begin a month of
entertaining and provocative
film programs. Weeks devoted
to films from Latin America & the
Caribbean, India, Africa and
Third World U.S.A. will be
featured. Five visiting filmmakers
from Martinique, India, Burkina
Faso and the U.S. will highlight
more than thirty films which will
be screened during twenty-four
programs.
Across the city, organizations
have joined with the city’s
Bureau of Cultural Affairs to
make this even possible: Fulton
County Arts Council, Atlanta-
Fulton Public Library, Cultural
Affairs Program of the Martin
Luther King, Jr. Center for Non
violent Social Change, India
American Cultural Association,
Mass Communications Depart
ment of Clark College, George
Ellis Cinema, Spelman College,
Image Film/Video and ATlanta
Frican Film Society.
In addition to festival
programs, a series of four, inten
sive all day Saturday Forums has
been added ot the schedule.
With films ranging from the 20's
“Birth of a Nation” to the 60's
"Sweet Sweetback’s Badass
Song,” from Africa’s "Emitai" to
independent Afro-America’s
“Bless Their Little Hearts,” from
network news coverage to struc
turalist documentaries, the
forums will provide a context in
which to discuss aesthetic,
political and economic aspects
of film.
All programs are FREE except
for the final screening on Sun
day, march 31 which will be a
benefit for the festival. We will
present a special sneak preview
of “The Gospel According to Al
Green." Admission is $5. For
further information call 658-7914
or 658-6691.
‘Love Boat’ Announces
Search For Dancers
HOLLYWOOD - Producers of
"The Love Boat” announced
they will conduct a national
talent search for eight beautiful
female dancers to be known as
the “Love Boat Mermaids” and
who will become fixtures in the
series.
Don Chrichton, a veteran
Hollywood choreographer, has
been appointed choreographer
for the prospective mermaids.
A sopkesman for the hit series
said a search is being held in
association with local talk shows
on ABC-affiliated stations in New
York, Chicago, Detroit,
Cleveland and San Francisco.
Final auditions will be held in
Hollywood in March.
WE'RE FIGHTING FOR YOUR LIFE
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SEVERE SWEATING
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DON’T GIVE THESE SIGNALS
A SECOND THOUGHT.
ACT IMMEDIATELY.
These signals may be the warnings your body gives you of a heart
attack. And by ignoring them, you could be risking serious problems.
Remember each year 350.000 Americans die from heart attacks
before reaching the hospital. Often after much delay ignoring these
warning signs.
So learn to recognize the symptoms of a heart attack. And when
you see one or feel one, act quickly. As soon as you recognize a
signal seek help immediately from a paramedic..Or get to an
emergency room the fastest way possible.
You may not have a second to spare.
WARNING SIGNALS OF A HEART ATTACK
1. An uncomfortable pressure, fullness, squeezing or pain in the
center of your chest behind the breastbone.
2. The sensation may spread to your shoulders, neck or arms. If it
lasts for two minutes or more, you could be having a heart attack.
3. Severe pain, dizziness, fainting, sweating, nausea or shortness of
breath may also occur, but are not always present.
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Atlanta Ballet Presents
Dance Theatre of Harlem
The Atlanta Ballet will present
the internationally acclaimed
Dance Theatre of Harlem in their
only southeast appearance for
1985, sponsored by a generous
gift from The Coca-Cola Founda
tion.
The dates and times are March
5,6,7,8,9 - 8 p.m., March 9,10 - 2
p.m. at the Fox Theatre.
The company’s repertoire in
Atlanta will consist of two
programs ranging from works by
the late George Balachine to
Geoffrey Holder’s powerful Ban
da, a ballet based on the religion
of Voudoun (Voodoo).
Dance Theatre of Harlem, with
founder and artistic director
Arthur Mitchell, has been
critically praised as one of the
top dance companies in the
United States. Its programs,
consisting of a distinctive blend
of classical and ethnic tradition,
have enabled the company to
break attendance records in
theatres around the world. The
spirited group has danced in
command peformances for Eu
ropean royalty, appearing at
London’s Royal Opera House
Covent Garden, and has enter
tained state visitors at the White
House. Dance Theatre of Harlem
was most recently honored with
the opportunity to close the 1984
Olympics in Los Angeles.
The March 5-10 performances
will be the first Dance Theatre of
Harlem appearance in Atlanta in
over seven years. Also on the
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agenda for the week or perfor
mances will be a lecture
demonstration for school
children conducted by Arthur
Mitchell March 8, 11:00 a.m. at
the Fox Theatre. Special
apperances by several Dance
Theatre of Harlem company
members at various Atlanta
schools are being planned as
well.
Ticket prices are $5.25 to
$25.25, with special prices for the
matinees. Tickets may be
purchased at the Fox Theatre,
660 Peachtree St., or charged by
calling (404) 881-1977 or (404)
892-3303, 11:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
weekdays, and 11:30 a.m. - 3:30
p.m. Satudays. Tickets are also
available at S.E.A.T.S. outlets in
all Turtles Record Stores in the
metro-Atlanta area as well as
Rome, Athens, Gainesville, Can
ton, Griffin, Bo-Jo’s in Cedar-
town and the Information
booths of the Omni Inter
national in Atlanta and the
Macon Mall. Children under 12,
college and dance school
students, and senior citizens may
receive special discounts to
selected performances.
In another development, the
presentation fo the Dance
Theatre of Harlem will include a
unique Arts Exposure Program
conducted by Mitchell.
Friday, March 8 between 11:00
a.m. - 12:15 p.m. at the Fox
Theatre.
The Dogwood City Chapter of
The Links, Inc., a service
organization, is helping with
promotion and distribution of
tickets. The program is spon
sored by the City of Atlanta
Bureau of Cultural Affairs and
features Mitchell and ap
proximately 35 company
members. The 75-minute lecture
demonstration will be presented
to 4,000 Atlanta area
schoolchildren.
The Arts Exposure Program
began as part of a Dance Theatre
of Harlem communty outreach
program in 1974, introducing
special audiences such as inner-
city schoolchildren, senior
citizens and the handicapped to
the experience of dance.
Mitchell’s educational
program will demonstrate bar
exercises, explain basic French
ballet terms, and discuss the
technical aspects of dance such
as lighting and costume design.
An audience participation seg
ment is also included where
participants are sometimes
spotted for dance scholarships to
Dance Theatre of Harlem.
Mitchell, a one-time principal
dancer with the New York City
Ballet, says that many of his
company members had their first
exposure to dance in similar
lecture-demonstrations. He
hopes to inspire Atlanta’s
youngsters through the
program.