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We’ve come a long way baby
THE SUMMER OF ’B4:
Even if you’re not old enough to
have more summers behing you
than there are in front of you, if
you’ve been paying attention
you’ve got to know that the Sum
mer of ’B4 has been a ZINGER!
...Things were happening fast,
Baby ...Magazines, newspapers
and TV stations that once
wouldn’t touch us with a 10-foot
pole reported promptly and
prominently ...Nobody had a
program so they could keep up
with the players, and well, only
when it’s all put together can you
realize what a long way we’ve
come, Baby.
TO WIT: There was JESSE
JACKSON, clean and clever,
campaigning seriously and effec
tively for the Democratic
nomination to be President of the
United States. Betcha never
thought you’d see that! And that
corking, unprecedented speech he
made at the Convention. Betcha
never thought you’d hear anything
like that!! ...And California
Speaker of the House WILLIE
BROWN throwing a $250,0CX) par
ty for 10,000 guests without the
booze running out.
AND, there was all the
Vanessa Williams
hullabaloo about MICHAEL
JACKSON winning all those
Grammy Awards, datingBROOKE
SHIELDS and wearing that funny
glove while all hell was breaking
loose over the multi-million-dollar
Victory Tour.
AND, there was Penthouse
Magazine with Miss America in the
buff, sending both the Contest
Committee and gorgeous
VANESSA WILLIAMS right up
the wall, and VANESSA
relinquishing the title with the
poise and grace of a queen ab
dicating her throne, with lovely
SUZETTE CHARLES stepping
right up to carry on for the glory of
Black womanhood.
AND, there was 48-year-old
RAFER JOHNSON trucking up
those 99 steps (whew!) to light the
torch for the XXIII Olympiad,
while people debated whether
CARL LEWIS (jumping at you
from the cover of Time Magazine)
could do what he said he would (he
did, of course) and EDWIN
MOSES standing right there
before 100,000 people in the
Coliseum and 180 million people
watching on TV and kissing his
white wife.
AND, there were so many Gold
medals going around Black necks
for victories in every competitive
sport the old Power Structure has
let us get into, that the whole
summer thing had to become
something to think about. To
savor. To stick out your chest
about. So do it! As BOOKER T.
WASHINGTON said: We’se
a’risin.’ ” And as JESSE said:
“God is not finished with us yet.’’
IN THE MAIL BOX: Reader
reaction to a recent hard-hurting
item about ethnic mom and pop
stuff included a letter from Brad
dock, Pa., whose author is
“disgusted” by the BS of it all,
pointing out that there is only one
race: the human race... And a
chatty telephone caller said: “The
whole thing is just plain funny.
My friends and I laughed ourselves
sick.” Shw also offered to provide
us news items about STARS such
as the time she sat in a movie
behind Hollywood’s shapeliest
body and watched the famous one
spend 90 minutes trying to get
something out of her nose. Told
her we don’t print stuff like that!
We do print things like CAB
CALLOWAY is being paged by
classmates of a Pennsylvania
school he attended regarding “a
gigantic reunion scheduled for Oc
tober”...And that the Reader who
noticed we were wrong about who
danced the Carioca is right. We
were wrong. Plus, Cab’s sister
who had a band was not named
Gladys. It is BLANCHE... Plus,
ex-Jet columnist MAJOR
ROBINSON is not (as rumored)
writing one of those kiss and tell
books about all the people he used
to item. He’s hanging with the
stars at New fine
COPELAND’S RESTAURANT
where OSSIE and RUBY, and
DON KING, and RICHARD
PRYOR chow down.
AND NOW THE NEWS: lt
says here that Mr. Pryor (s4l
million, y’remember) has written a
fictionalized biographical movie
titled “Jo Jo Dancer” that begins
filming in January, covering the
low days of the accident as well as
the high, clean days he’s now en
joying... AND the carrion birds are
swooning down on Jeannie Bell
(remember her?) to write a book
about her idyllic days with the late
Richard Burton, who met her
while filming Black filmmaker Bill
Alexander’s “The Klansman” and
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took her to Switzerland and Fran
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You know, of course, that both
of our Miss Americas have struck
it rich in Hollywood: Vanessa,
who some detracting locals are
snikering would not wear a bikini
when she appeared in a segment of
“Love Boat,” has been set for a
flick titled “Partners in Crime”...
Suzette will be doing eight
episodes of ABC-TWs soap
“Loving” in October, playing an
exotic European model...AND,
some wordsmith hereabouts have
coined a new description for our
light-skinned Sisters. It’s “barely
Black,” How does that grab you?
AND, YES, millionaire Michael
Jackson has seen Prince’s movie,
“Purple Rain.” Naturally, he
made no comment. Which is what
Diana Ross has also not done
about her new film, “Silence.”
whose director, Adrian Lyne,
describes it as “another strange
love story.”
It’s about a white doctor who
gets caught up in the Chicago race
riots and is sheltered by a Black
hooker who is mute...AND, after
completing work on “Fast For
ward” (formerly “Shootout”)
director Sidney Poitier, who claims
he’s arythmic and can’t dance a
lick, shocked his cast and crew at
the film’s closing party by doing
the moonwalk like a
champ...AND, Stevie Wonder,
who wrote ’em and Dionne War
wick sing six songs in the Orion
movie “The Woman in Red.”
Fourteen of us, including Alfre
Woodard, Debbie Allen, Isabel
Sanford, Louis Gossett, Sherman
Hemsley, Paula Kelly, Madge Sin
clair, Eddie Murphy, Ray Charles
are nominees for Emmy Awards
this year... Catch the show on Sept.
23rd.
Meanwhile, Columbia Pictures
has Christina Murray of Howard
University and Sharon of
Clark College among seven studen
ts in its summer intern program.
They’ll spend seven weeks on the
lot, working in various departmen
ts and learning all about movie pic
tures.
So, y’know for certian that it
ain’t what it oughta be, and it ain’t
what it’s gonna be, but it sure ain’t
what it used to be. HOORAY
FOR HOLLYWOOD!!!
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TEDDY PENDERGRASS “The Spirit of Survival” is
the theme of “ESSENCE, The Television Program” debut.
Featured in the premiere broadcast are superstar singer Ted
dy Pendergrass (pictured in front of his home with
CSRA gets FM
stereo-soul station
The CSRA now has an FM
stereo soul station, according to
Jay “Jody B.” Bell, a weekend
disc jockey at station WMJB.
“It’s finally here,” said Bell,
adding that WMJB changed its
format at midnight Saturday night
from “middle of the orad” to
“urban contemporary.” “Urban
contemporary,” he explained, “is
the new word for soul music. They
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don’t use ‘soul’ anymore,” he
said.
A former station manager for
Augusta’s radio station WRDW
when it was owned by singer James
Brown, Bell said the staion will be
on the air from 6 a.m. to 1 a.m.
and plans to add jazz and gospel
music.
In addition to Bell on weekends,
the station will feature DJ, P. C.
Wiley during the week.
The Augusta News-Review September 8,1984
“ESSENCE” host Susan L. Taylor) and successful model
Iman both survivors of near fatal car accidents. Both
have resumed their careers and tell of the changes which have
occurred in their lives since then.
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Deidra Rosier
Ms Rosier sings
for Minnesota Twins
Deidra L. Rosier, a summer in
tern with the Comsource Division
in the system links and com
munication development, sang the
national anthem prior to a recent
Minnesota Twins baseball game.
Deidra led a crowd of 30,000
people, including 150 Control
Data summer interns, in her first
public performance of The Star
Spangled Banner, at the
Metrodome.
Deidra, a senior at Tuskegee In
stitute in Alabama, is a Computer
Science major.
She is the daughter of Mr. &
Mrs. James E. Rosier of Augusta
and a 1980 graduate of Westside
High School.
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