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ckfcflyjTOVM I J k News Service of Tri-Ad Consultants, Ltd 188 Illi 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 wk • I * -mS*"**- * W* * . 1 p I Jesse Jackson took her to Switzerland and Fran ce. • 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!!! OvrCvW. KmUr Ja iff 1 •. .* * x t* 'T’- mBK u r-* Bftfr XT Kltal MHW Ik. ■ Wk ~ ~ L ■ **?' "X A J ' k b f ... - 4 r '■ , 2 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 ■ Swpraras ■ ■ Extra ■ '-"I SEAGRAM DBtUERS CO.. N Y.. N.Y. 100% NEUTRAL SPIRITS DISTILLED FROM GRAIN 80 PROOF 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. 4 fe*-- '.. ’.... 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. Page 3