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From Hollywood
There weren’t many dry eyes in the giant ballroom
of Caesar’s Palace when Frank Sinatra and Howard
Cossell introduced the legendary Joe Louis, the Brown
Bomber, at the Joe Louis Foundation dinner. Redd
Foxx, Slappy White, Billie Daniels and many more
entertained the star-studded crowd which included
boxers Ken Norton, Floyd Patterson, Leon Spinks,
Sugar Ray Robinson and Max Schmelling.
The Wiz opened to great boxoffice, but someone at
Universal Studios is hedging the bet that it will con
tinue. The film television rights have already been sold
to CBS and airing may be as soon as next season.
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DONNA SUMMER LEON SPINKS NANCY WILSON
Our New York spy, Charles Reuben, called to say
that disco Queen Donna Summer was at her best
recently at the United Jewish Appeal-Federation bene
fit dinner at the Americana Hotel. Donna received
many standing ovations at the affair honoring Casa
blanca Record and Filmworks prexy Neil Bogart. The
dinner raised more than three-quarters of a million
dollars. Summer is now heading for Boston where she
is doing a benefit for her family’s Baptist church.
The Mexican government held up the production of
Anthony Quinn’s movie, Children of Sanchez, for
more than 13 years, but now that it is here, the film
may be the blockbuster of the year. Dolores del Rio
came out of a ten year retirement to cameo in the film
and like Lena Horne in The Wiz, you can’t take your
eyes off of the lady . . . Sanchez is a true story of one
family in the slums of Mexico City, their pain,
pleasure, love, hatred, passion, violence and most of
ail, their will to survive. The family could have been of
any race, but we predict that Sanchez is going to anger
Mexican-Americans with its truthful portrayal.
. The dapper young man crossing the Sunset Strip
daily with the large pad, pen, fabric, needle and thread
is none other than Paris-trained designer, Dorian.
Dorian is hotter on the Hollywood scene than a fourth
of July firecracker. He is the front-runner for the
coveted job of head designer on the Tut set. The multi
million dollar film is now casting and Richard Thomas
and Nancy Wilson may be heading the cast. (We won
der if the producers recall that the boy king, Tut, was
Black, If so, why haven’t they considered a Black
actor for the title role?)
Reports coming out of Mississippi where Muham
mad Ali is filming Freedom Road are that Ali.df*sS
meek as a lamb on the set. Could this* be the quiet
before the storm or is Ali serious about a film and tele
vision career?
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congratulates director Alvin Ailey following the King’s two sons, His Royal Highness Crown Prince Sidi
performance of his dance troup during a state dinner at Mohammed and His Royal Highness Prince Moulay
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thousand miles and shattered
their dream, they must have
decided that life wasn’t worth
living anymore. When Jim said,
The time has come for us to
die,’ they believed him. Their
belief was that strong.”
Dr. Goodlett, * who is an
M.D. and a Ph.D., said that as a
psychologist he can
“understand” that nonviolent
people could be pressured
“until they reached a critical
point where their nonviolence
failed.” The government of
Guyana has charged that it was
People’s Temple members who
ambushed Ryan’s party at the
Port Kaituma airport, killing
Ryan, three newsmen, and a
Joneston resident who was
reportedly planning to leave
the settlement.
Goodlett said Ryan’s highly
publicized visit to Jonestown
was the climax of a long
history of harassment and
meddling experienced by the
residents of the agricultural
mission. In past mopths
marksmen had fired ihto the
compound, a visitor
clandestinely poisoned large
* numbers of livestock, and
disgruntled former temple
members have tried repeatedly
to get into Jonestown and to
make trouble there.
According to Goodlett,
Ryan’s visit, might have caused
Jones and some of his
supporters to panic and touch
off the ghastly series of events
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that ended with the virtual
destruction of Jonestown.
.“You have to understand
the desperation of people who
find they are unable to escape
from their oppressors,”
Goodlett said. “You can see
how they might feel that
(Ryan’s party) had killed their
dream and say, ‘And now we’re
going to kill them.’”
Goodlett said he had not
known of any “suicide pact”
among temple members.
Goodlett recalled a time, not
so long ago, when the picture
at the People’s Temple
settlement in Guyana was not
so bleak. The time was three
months ago, when Goodlett
spent a “very pleasant” day at
Jonestown, touring the
settlement and treating Jim
Jones.
Jones, according to
Goodlett, had some serious
medical problems and had
promised’to submit to tests
and hospitalization once the
impending visit by Ryan’s
party was over. The People’s
Temple leader was running a
- temperature of between
102 and 103 degrees and
believed that the colony he
headed wouldn’t be able to
function properly if he were
not there “to offer leadership
and the sharing of hardships.”
Goodlett said he saw no
evidence that Rev. Jones’
illness affected his intellectual
capacity.
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Moreover, Goodlett said,
Jones’ problems weren’t
affecting the well-being of the
settlement in Guyana. He
described the Jonestown
medical facilities as probably
the best rural clinic he has ever
seen and praised the work of a
.young physician, formerly a
drug addict in California, who
had gone to medical school in
Guadalajara, and at U.C.-Irvine
and was treating patients
throughout the Jonestown
area.
Goodlett talked to many
Jonestown settlers who had
been his former patients when
they lived in San Francisco.
“Some of them 1 was surprised
to find were still alive,” he
said.
One such person was the
mother of Larry Layton, who
was reported to have been
killed at the Port Kaituma
airport when the shooting
started.
The woman was dying of
cancer, Dr. Goodlett reported.
“But she was happy,” he said.
“She wanted to die in
Jonestown.”
Goodlett said he confronted
Jones with the stories people
were spreading in the Bay Area
that Jonestown residents
weren’t allowed to leave the
settlement. Jones assured him
that this wasn’t true and said a
boat made the trip from
Jonestown to Guyana’s capital,
Georgetown, three times a
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week. U.S. Embassy officials
corroborated Jones’ story that
members of his flock were free
to leave, Goodlett said.
Goodlett said Jones showed
him the grave in which his own
mother was buried. He also saw
the settlement’s farming
operations, nursery, school,
daycare facilities, library,
machine shop, and
foodprocessing plant.
People he had known as
pimps, prostitutes, and heavy
drug users were learning to
work in various skills and were
leading “meaningful lives,”
Goodlett reported. He said that
Jones predicted the settlement
would be able to build one
brick house each week from
scratch by the end of the year.
Jonestown was also
venturing into the
transportation industry, with a
frieghter that made trips
between Guyana and nearby
Trinidad, according to
Goodlett.
Goodlett left the settlement
at the end of the day, after
hearing a concert by the
Jonestown band and dining on
food grown and processed by
the settlers.
“It was a very delightful
experience. I was very
impressed,” he said. “Mostly
because I saw people who had
been derelicts in society
leading full, meaningful, and
purposefulJivg.s.._”
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The Augusta News-Review - December 9, 1978 -
.Socialite club
elects officers,
Mrs. Cave president
The Socialite Club elected
officers at the November
meeting to serve for the next
two years.
Elected were Mrs. Eliza
Cave, president; Mrs. Fannie S.
Johnson, vice president; Mrs.
Ann J. Robinson, recording
secretary; Mrs. Ada P. Gallman,
corresponding secretary; Mrs.
Beverly Clyburn, treasurer;
Mrs. Geraldine S. Gallman,
chaplain; and Mrs. Diane B.
Grant, sargeant-at-arms.
Other positions _ will —be
- appointed by the president at
the January meeting in the
home of Mrs. Lillie M. Ford.
Mr. and Mrs. Herbert
Johnson will entertain the club
and their guests with a dinner
party on Dec. 22.
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