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Syndicated Columnist
Dear Yolonda: I'm 17; with a problem
that's too big for me to handle.
For the past 18 months, I've had a
job babysitting for a couple I've
known most of my life, and who are as
close to me as my own family. Usually,
I meet the kids at their house, fix them
a snack, and make them take a nap until
their mother, Marie, arrives home.
?L^st week, after the kids were
asleep, I was in the living room chang- *
ing my school clothes, as I usually do.
As 1 looked up, there was Mike, the
kids' father, standing thare, staring at
me changing clothesrfgot embarrassed
and ducked behind a chair.
He stood there, telling me that there
was ho need for me to hide. He told me
that he had seen women undress
before, and that I shouldn't be afraid.
He started taking off his clothes. I
couldn't move because my clothes were
on. a chair on th*? othpr r?f thp
room. Anyway, when he got to his
pants, I rushed to the chair, got my
clothes, put them on quickly and ran
past him. He didn't try to stop me.
Now, I don't know what to do. I
don't want to tell my mother because
she and Marie are such good friends.
Besides, my job is the only money I
have. I don't know how I would get to
school.
Since all this has occurred, I have
continued my job, but I now refuse to
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Osborne could have taken it easy H*is^
year.
He could have read the reviews for
"Jeffrey Osborne," his 1982 solo
debut on A&M Records ? reviews like
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masterpiece," or the one that raved
about his "velvety smooth vocals" -and
decided that all he needed to do for
a follow-up was stamp out a carbon
copy. But instead of resting on his
laurels, Osborne came up with "Stay
With Me Tonight," an album that he
describes as "definitely more varied
and accomplished than the first one."
"It's important for me to grow with
every record," Jeffrey explains.
"There's a limit, of course; you don't
want to go overboard. But I'm not the
kind of person who's content to sit
back while not trying to develop. With
this record, we set out to grow in the
areas of technical sound and material,
and I think we've done it."
On "Jeffrey Osborne," the singer's
\? first project after 10 years with the
group LTD, Jeffrey and producer
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tjysitter
let the kids take a nap after they eat.
Also, I keep my school clothes on, and
I'm ready to walk out the door when
Marie walks in. I'm praying that Mike
never comes home first, because I
wouldn't know how to handle things.
I can't continue to hide things as 1
have. Should I tell Marie that her husband
tried to make love to me, or
should I say nothing? Marie has been
asking me why I'm acting so strangely.
What should I do?
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Marilyn
Dear Marilyn: 1 think you should
share this with your mother. If you
choose not to tell her, tell some adult.
Why? Because something might occur
later and someone else should know
the facts.
I also think you should begin to
seek another babysitting job. The
average working couple values an experienced
babysitter, so I doubt you'll
have the problems you expect. Put up
a sign at your local church or supermarket.
This is one job you can do
without.
Free-Hearted With Men, Miserly
With Children.
Got a problem or a gripe? Ask Yolonda
Gavles, P.O. Box 19112, Chicago,
III., 60619.
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BY JOEY SASSO
Syndicated Columist
Observations in covering
Fresh from a brush with
Falana is heading back to tl
by a renewed faith and firm
definitely in the blessing bi
She relaxes on a couch
home, her eyes gleam and 1
as she talks about her retur
Five-month hiatus in which
die in order to learn more i
"I'm going to be the be
I've ever been, because fr
value of every breath I take
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in early August, Miss 1
surgery in California to re
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Vegas, she developed peritc
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'91 bleeding.
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jgment that bomb,"Miss Falana recall:
times its regular size, and
Vew LP's
mplished'
George Duke concentrated on presenting
his voice in as pure a setting as
possible. 44I wouldn't allow the
engineer to use many effects on my
vocals," Osborne recalls. 44I felt that 1
should stick close to the sound that
people were familiar with ,from my
LTD days^ With "Stay With Me
Tonight" I let him go ahead and use
some delay effects on the voice, and a
- nttie more echo. I just generally took
advantage of the studio a little more.
It's really a matter of confidence.
"I decided that I'd reached a certain
audience with the music on the first
album, "he says. "With the new LP, I
made sure that there were the same in*
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gredients that brought me to where I
am now. But I was also determined to
include sounds and styles that stretched
into new, more progressive
- territories."
Helping Osborne realize his ambitions
for "Stay With Me Tonight"
were several of the same musicians who
contributed to "Jeffrey Osborne."
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and they wouldn't have been able to fi
in time to save me. God wanted som
the Night Beat: and kick that thing out of there,
i death, entertainer Lola Doctors also told her she would nc
le bright lights, bolstered hours if she had not sought immediat
in her belief that "God is the internarbleeding.
isiness." After several days in intensive care,
in her plush Las Vegas ed to begin a recuperation period
ler hands dance excitedly "stronger and better than ever." In
n to the stage following a singing and dancing, Miss Falana ho
she says she nearly had to modeling and has feelers out for s
about life. " work, "particularly with Magn
st that I can be, the best Houston," she grins,
om now on I know the She disputes reports of a bitter feuc
;,"the singer-dancer says. . * talk show host Johnny Carson, callir
Falana underwent minor the greatest talents in our business
pair adhesions from two. strumental in my getting national re<
ile recuperating in Las says. "We had a marvelous chemistr
>nitis and was rushed to a^?^ Wilt Chamberlain has traded in Y
ught to control internal * loin cloth to make his screen debut^i
"Conah the Barbarian,^which Dino
1, they found "a time " producing in Mexico. 5.
"My appendix was six " Wilt the Stilt plays Bombaata, a wj
it was up underneath my who accompanies Arnold Schwarz(
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ebody to go in No word on whether there's a love interest for Wilt
in the script, but it's a good bet he falls for interest s,
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treatment for Grace Jones, who also appears.
Meanwhile, Grace is giving the producers fits,
she was releas- "She hasn't learned how to pull her punches and
and now feels kicks. In one recent fight scene, she decked four stunt
addition to her men," says a spokesman for the production, ,
pes to do some Shari Belafonte-Harper, the stunningly beautiful
iome television daughter of singer Harry Belafonte, is making a
um or Matt name for herself as a "Hotel" co-star as well as a star
of Calvin Klein ads. But she doesn't expect to have a
I with television chance to appear with her famous dad on film.
\g him "one of It's hard enough to find projects for one member
." He was in- of a minority, let alone two," she says candidly. But
:ognition," she she also'says there is a major motion picture project
y.".... ' 1 in which she has a strong shot.for a part that original:
lis shorts for a ly called for "a typical WASP."
n the sequel to Shari is on a roll. Upcoming segments of "Hotel"
de Laurentiis is will, focus on a romance for her Julie Gillette
character. She's also set to graceTthe cover of the
arrior/guardian February issue of Vogue. -
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HH- Ramsey Lewis .
HB to appear here
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Jazz star Ramsey Lewis and touring companies of two
Broadway musicals are among the attractions to
be presented by the Stevens Center in the winter and
spring of 1984, says General Manager Clyde LindThe
^events are grouped into two series. The
Theatre Series opens on Feb. 13 with "Joseph and
the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat," the musical
comedy based on the biblical story of Joseph and his
"Uiiver," tne musical version of Charles Dickens' *->
story about the engaging orphan Oliver Twist, will be
performed on March 21.
Kevin McCarthy's 44Give 'Em Hell Harry," a oneman
show about late President Harry Truman, concludes
the Theatre Series on April 17.
The Music-Variety Series begins on Jan. 29 with
the world's best-known duo piano team, Arthur Ferrante
and Lou Teicher, playing a pops program with
a touch of the classics. On Feb. 11, legendary flamenco
guitarist Carlos Montoya will perform, and the -.a
Series concludes on April 4 with contemporary jazz
by the Ramsey Lewis Trio.
Both series and individual tickets for these six
events, all of which begin at 9:00 p.m., are on sale at
the Stevens Center Box Office. Tickets can be
ordered in person, by mail or by phone and charged.
Ticket prices are $15 for orchestra seating and $13
irtl 4. Please see page A12
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