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The Augusta News-Review January 19, 1985
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Richard Pryor—considered by
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In this rare and emotionally
frank interview with Tony Brown,
Pryor talks about his near fatal acci
dent, his drug problem, his difficult
relationship with his father, and
more.
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Rap II
In this episode, Brown focuses
on the aspects of Pryor’s life that
have brought him happiness. He
discusses his rise to stardom, how
it’s affected his life, and his current
quest for serenity
Don’t miss this intimate por
trayal—as only Tony Brown brings
it to you.
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4:30 P.M.—Jan. 20
Box Score
Wanna bet ?
By George Bailey
Last year the Super Bowl
Champion Oakland Raiders en
tered the play-offs as a wild-card
team, won their first and second
round play-off games, went in
tothe champioinship game as un
derdogs, and came out the top
dogs of Super Bowl XVIII.
This year was not the case. For
the reigning champions couldn’t
make it to the play-offs. Tghere
were’ no Cinderella stories; no
dreams come true. This year was
dedicated to the best, and the best
from each conference did survive.
The two superior teams with the
best records will meet in Super
Bowl XIX. Although San Fran
cisco is a slight favorite because of
home field advantage, both teams
in the skill department are about
even. This is what the league has
been waiting for, the best in one
conference against the best from
the ther conference. ABC, which
will air the show, is tickl’ green,
greenbacks that is. It was reported
they are charging a cool million for
each 30 second slot of advertising
space. Last year it only cost
$900,000; so what’s another
SIOO,OOO anyway.
Now to the game! I decided not
to try and analyze this game. I’d
just say what everyone else is
saying. Who cares that on offense
Paine College to hold ‘Campaign for
Excellence ’ benefit concert
Paine College’s Campaign for
Excellence benefit concert
originally, scheduled to be presen
ted in Atlanta will be held in
Augusta. The concert has been
moved to Augusta because of the
great interest in tickets in the
CSRA. The concert with soprano
Jessye Norman and Arthur Mit
chell’s Dance Theatre of Harlem is
being held in the Gilbert-Lambuth
Chapel on the Paine College Cam
pus, Monday January 21st at 8
p.m.
Jessye Norman, one of the out
standing sopranos of our time, is
being joined by the highly ac
claimed Dance Theatre of Harlem
with Karen Brown. Miss Brown,
like Miss Norman, is a native of
Augusta, and this program will be
Rare interview probes Richard Pryor
What has Richard Pryor learned
from his near fatal accident?
What’s the story behind his firing
Jim Brown as president of Indigo
Productions? Does he still use
drugs?
These intimate aspects of
America’s most profound and
dazzling comedian are brought to
the television screen in “Richard
Pryor: Rap I,” a rare and
emotionally frank interview on
public television’s TONY
BROWN’S JOURNAL.
His White female companions,
his altercation with the Gay com-
Martin Luther King Jr.
From page 4
wishes of the founders of her Con
stitution—a land of true equality
with “liberty and justice for all”.
While addressing striking
sanitation workers in Memphis,
Tennessee on April 4, 1968 on the
balcony of his motel, Dr. King was
assassinated by a gunman.
Dr. King believed in America.
He believed justice and equal
rights belonged to all American
Literacy month to be celebrated
The CSRA Reading Council will
acknowledge January as Celebrate
Literacy Month. The observance
will include an awards ceremony to
be held Jan. 19th, at Augusta
College Performing Arts Theater
at 8 p.m.
Individuals and organizations
who have made efforts to combat
the problem of illiteracy in the
both teams are just about even,
giving the edge to Miami; or on
defense both teams are about even
giving the edge to San Francisco.
Who cares that both teams have
great passers and fantastic
receivers or that both teams have
outstanding defensive down
linemen who can really get after
the quarterback.
So what are fans going to really
care about?
Most of them will care about the
money they bet on both teams.
That’s where the real action is .
The betting that will go on behind
the scenes could more than likely
reduce our national debt to zero.
Husbands are betting against
wives, friends against enemies,
doctors against patients, preachers
against their congregation; this
reporter even took a bet against his
4 year old son.
Practically, everyone wants to
bet, but no one wants to pay off.
That good friend you made a bet
with? I hope you can find him af
ter Sunday if he loses.
Yes, the winners will be of great
joy, and the losers will be in much
pain. There’s a sign in one of the
casino’s in Atlantic City that
reads, “Bet with your head, not
your pocketbook.”
Who’s going to win? San Fran
cisco, of course! Wanna bet?
their first together in Augusta.
Miss Nrman is currently ap
pearing in the Metropolitan Opera
Production of Richard Strauss’
“Ariadne Auf Naxos”. The New
York Times said of her Ariadne:
“One of her best performances at
the Met. Miss Norman brings a
fervent musicality to this part,
sustaining the long lines of Ariad
ne’s music to stirring effect. She is
one of our most musicanly singers,
too, pharsing with a thought
fulness that rarely precludes
feeling, and articulating the Ger
man like a native.”
Miss Norman’s program will in
clude a selection of spirituals with
the Paine College Choir, conduc
ted by John Williams, and mem
bers of the Morehouse College
Glee Club of Atlanta. Works by
munity, his relationship with a
disciplinarian father whom he
Jeared and his fight with drugs are
part of the story of a man who
admits that he is responsible for
most of the problems in his life.
The program will be seen in this
area on WCES-20 at 7:30 p.m. on
Tues., Jan. 22.
Year after year, reports about
Richard Pryor’s 100-mile-an-hour
life style were spread throughout,
magazines and newspapers. On
occasion, he has publicly admitted
using drugs. Then on the night of
June 9, 1980, Pryor accidentally
citizens and that they could be
achieved without violence and con
flict.
Martin Luther King Jr. is now a
national hero, not just a martyr
Black leader, and his day of obser
vance is wortny of the respect and
honor of all Americans.
Martin Luther King Day will
mean that his dream and
message—a United States where
the words ignorance, prejudice,
and violence are replaced by un
derstanding, tolerance and peace
CSRA will be given special
recognition at this ceremony.
Mayor Charles DeVaney will
declare the 19th of January
“Celebrate Literacy Day.” The
purpose for the declaration is to
bring attention and community
support to the widespread problem
of literacy throughout the counties
Intergration
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mathematical skills of Black
students. And assuming that it
does raise reading skills bv two to
six weeks, that will just begin to
close the more than one year gap
now separating white and Black
bhildren.
In fact, even this minimal gain
may be an illusion. Most studies
that were reviewed showea no &
sects whatsoever. This may mean,
as David Armor suggests, that the
few studies that reported large ef
fects were picking up the impact o'
special educational programs that
were implemented simultaneously
with integration plans.
Also, the most effective plans
were voluntary. So, for all we
know at the present time, court
mandated, involuntary integration
plans have no positive effect on
Black students’ performance.
As several of the panelists
renfirked, the NIE study is by no
means definitive. In fact, Cook
said he had little confidence that
we know much about how
desegregation affects reading and
he rejects the assumption that the
studies reflect actual populations.
While the NIE study does not close
the book on integration research, it
certainly should give pause to
courts which have demanded that
school systems integrate on what
may be an unsubstantiated assum
ption that integration will help
Black children learn.
Purcell, Handel and Strauss will
also be performed. “Songs of a
Wayfarer” by Gustav Mahler will
be sung by Jessye Norman and
danced by members of the Dance
Theatre of Harlem.
Jessye Norman is coming to
Augusta directly from
Washington, D.C. where she
will sing at the inauguratgion of
President Ronald Reagan the mor
ning of January 21st.
Tax-deductible tickets for
benefit concert are available riow
at the Paine College Developmen
ts Officem 1235 15th St.,
Augusta, Georgia. Ticket prices
are SSO (which includes a reception
for Miss Norman at the Garden
Center following the performance)
and S3O. Full-time students may
purchase tickets for sls.
set himself on fire.
When asked had he conquered
his problem with drugs and
alcohol, he replied, “I haven’t
conquered it. I don’t do them
anymore. And hopefully for the
rest of my life I won’t do any. But
a day at a time. Today, I’m sober
and drug free.”
Who Richard Pryor is today is,
still as much a mystery as the
sequence of events that put him in
the hospital. But he reveals an in
timate part of himself to Tony
Brown in a two-part interview you
won’t want to miss.
are still to be achieved. He brought
us a long way towards the
fulfillment of that dream and it is
up to us to continue that quest.
A day is not really 24 hours
long. It's exactly 23 hours,
56 minutes and 4.1 sec
onds.
ncluded in the CSRA and across
.he U.S.
The public is invited to attend
the activitya t Augusta College and
to become a part of this literacy ef
fort in collabbration with the in
ternational Reading Association
and the local chapter of the
Georgia Council of the Inter
national Reading Association.