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* i ' Page BlO-The Chronicle, Thursday, March 8, V. ??? I / 9 j WFC^< >':^H '<^H V ^^ 7; R ^^ j/ *'^^B B^H^H > m X ,i'.' , Somebody's Watching Hii Who is Rockwell? According to USA Today, tl own music is a "macho Michael Jackson and a ly refers to him as one of the hottest sellin Rockwell attribute his success to? "I guess I says. "And, of course, having wonderful bud< Movie Review 'Footloose': A new-breed, '80s BY RHONDA BRANNON dent o Chronicle Columnist So the dinanc T 1/MrA mtirinnlc i iu?v, mujitan. adultS The energetic dancing, the beautiful 0f roc] costumes and scenery, and the Ren memorable songs have been a source of dinanc delight for me for as long as 1 can / . ? t] remember. When I tap my feet to the Willar beat of a rousing song in the movie and means afterward hum and sing it as I go tejl through my daily routine, I've seen a Ren good musical. dance "Footloose" had me tapping, hum- tjon f ming - and smiling. minist Kevin Bacon, Lori Singer and Lith Christopher Penn portray teen-agers in perfor a small town whexc. dancing- and play- God r - ing rodr mtrsic arc against a focal^ or- ^ ' ^ dinance. Bacon is the new kid in town, trustir Ren McCormick, who has moved there In with his mother from Chicago. Ren chara< loves to dance and listen to rock music, jn ^ so he's shocked to discover that both from are illegal in the town. forth Ren's friend Willard (Chris Penn) energc explains that, several years ago, a forme group of teens, one of them the local dance minister's son, were tilled in a car acciAsk Volondq TF/1M 2a ?aM 2a ?? a iit/ nuncn is i BY YOLONDA GAYLES Syndicated Columnist Dear Yolonda: When I listen to friends and look around my neighborhood, I get the impression that marriage breakups are higher among blacks than whites. I've heard that one out of three marriages ends in divorce, but the rate appears to be even greater for black couples. I've been married for 15 years. We are in our mid-40s and none of our friends _ who married right after high school are still together. Is there an concrete evidence concerning racial differences in marriage breakups? And, if what I } >84 Wee\ A Hbl*,. 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And what does was just at the right place at the right time he ' dies like Michael Jackson never hurts." rousing, i musical n the way home from a dance. the ore to protect teens from what the consider the menacing influence k music and dancing, witnesses the effects of the or:e when he asks Willard if he he Police and Men at Work and d answers by inquiring if he the men in blue and if he might tj where the men work. then decides to hold a senior HKEL and instantly runs into opposi- ^j rom the adults, especially the Vf er, portrayed by John Lithgow. k m igow turns in another excellent mancc, this time as a man of orn- bctwacn- running thc.lwcfc.-ofc ^ wU lg them to do it for themselves. the old-time musicals, the ^RRj^HB J :ters would burst into song, but '80s musical, the songs burst Video Voyck the soundtrack. What bursts * in "Footloose" is great! The Kool & The Gang's vid? :tic theme song, written and per- Lite/Polygram Record d by Kenny Loggins, will be the lights, a jungle prowlir song for 1984. "I Need a Hero" performed in a temple Please see page B12 who has previously ma ight: Divorce rate suspect is true, why? Glenda Dear Glenda: According to the Bureau of Vital Statistics, ' BJm 1982, 233 out of every 1,000 divorces involved jjj^ black couples. That's a 23 percent increase over I the last 20 years. The Yolonda ) < kend Broadway Is My Beat Ailing 'Diff'rer waiting for a nc BY JOEY SASSO Syndicated Columnist Observations in covering the night beat: Gary Coleman is in a desperate race with death to find a new kidney before he's doomed by infection or th^complete failure of the transplanted one he has n$w. The tiny "Differ'rent Strokes" star undergoes dialysis four times a day, but experts say the treatment is dangerous and that each time the procedure is carried out, Gary risks infection that could kill him because of his weakened condition. Dr. Oscar Salvatierra, of the transplant program at the University of California at San Francisco, says: "With ambulatory dialysis, there is the great danger of infection because it requires an open spot in the skin. "The survival of any dialysis patient is^t best unpredictable," Salvatierra says. "The principal problem is the possibility that the dialysis will just stop working." Adds Dr. Albert Erique-Gomez, an internist and kidney disease experL the University of Mexico School of Medicine: "there is a fairly high rate of infection, and infection is potentially deadly to a kidney patient." Gary is on the National Transplant Registry's "urgent" list for another transplant, which could save his life. "But he'll have to wait until we find a c.ilnUU ~ . .U : ~. 1 " * ' ? suuauit iiiaicu, says <x registry spoKcsman, ~~/\na ne doesn't have a special place in line." Gary's mother, Sue Coleman, says doctors discovered that he had a rare kidney ailment when he was only five. "He received a transplant then and everything was going fine until two years ago, when it started to fail," she told an interviewer. He was scheduled for a transplant early in 1983. However, at the last minute, his hopes were dashed when doctors discovered an abcess around an old surgical scar. The registry spokeman says: "The infection and abcess made it too risky to operate. "Gary has already taken all the immunosuppressive drugs one normally receives with a transplant,. and they've worked all along, so we know that part will be no - "problem*, tr's^just a question of finding a donor."... Music circle insiders report that the reason no firm dates have been set for the Jackson Family tour is W|. %. . v:<'^^| Jfev iii8**?'---- T ^m K iflK^I wjk^' ' ( I "^BP^XwSi: 'wf J? >o for their new single "Tonight" (De- die Mom s) is filled with strange celestial James T ig with animal people and the rituals the help < of love. Directed by Martin Kahant original i de videos for Loverboy, Kiss and EdV hicrhov in hlnnb / U iff f/iifi/fV \ bureau's figures also indicate that blacks, indeed, have the highest divorce rate when measured against whites, Hispanics and other races. Why the high statistic in this category? I have my theories, but I'd like to hear from my readers first. Write me and give me your opinions on why blacks have a higher divorce rate. I'd also like to hear your views on the implications these figures have for black family life in the future. Child Abuse Everyone's business Dear Yolonda: During a recent visit to a grocery 1 < % it Strokes' star UJnn,7 :w iuuucj uunui that Michael wants Don King out as promoter. No : comment from the Jackson camp about the matter. : However, they do say the tour will get under way in : May ? maybe.... : Sammy Davis Jr. says that presidential candidate : Jesse Jackson is a good friend and that he's a : longtime supporter of Jackson's PUSH organiza-! tion, but the entertainer won't get involved in the : campaign this year. "Politics is the most thankless : job there is," says Davis, who has been appearing at : , a Dallas dinner theater the past week. "I don't think ] people want to know what really goes on behind the j scenes in the caucus rooms with people trying to lob- : by."... : Comedian Richard Pryor and actor Billy Dee j ducted in the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame. The : organization held its 11th annual Oscar Micheaux : Awards ceremony as part of the San Francisco Bay :: Area's observation of Black History Month. Also in- . ducted into the hall were comedian-actor Manton J Moreland and dancer Carmen de Lavallade. Singer Jennifer Holiiday, 23, who gained fame from her role in the Broadway musical "Dreamgirls," was : presented the Clarence Muse Youth Award.... : Unlike many television women, the versatile star of NBC's "Gimme A Break," Nell Carter, is not wor- ; ried abbut getting old. She plans to fall back on her : talent. The 4-foot-11-inch actress who got her start singing in her church choir in Birmingham, Ala., and went on to win a Tony for her role in the Broadway i hit "Ain't Misbehavin'," says she prefers working : on television. "I have been very lucky," she says. "My ultimate dream at first was to be on Broadway. Then I got on Broadway ('Dude,' 'Jesus Christ : Superstar,' 'Don't Bother Me, I can't Cope'). "My ultimate dream then was to win an award. I : got the award. My ultimate dream next was to do a : TV show. I did one (NBC's 'Lobo'). Then my dream was to have my own TV show. I have my own TV show. "Now, I don't know what I want. I'm happy with what I have." Tele\ision -- especially her three years as Nell Harper on "Gimme a Break" -- has given Nell Please see page B12 fL 1 |P u>~ M^HHf^H*^Hl^R^^R -t^fe, m^WM* $ ? 1: 1 3GBk a* -- -;< J-f ^p JJr ^mvX h -'x ;^yjj^^^^^^pi|^HHBwH^M|| ' s^I f#. wv ;jB Bki&e '^flfc^m-* :,%H J? $.. K>':3SV|kA , - .^Bfe^ajW^^^ML ? _ V ^BMB I* ,^B K ' " >- 3^p, 'wl PR^rl^ u '^1 - aT?V,^^Kh( * -.tMtim m jy, the video shows Kool & The Gang lead singer aylor growing from adolescence to manhood with of a fetching young ladyv Wendy Edmead, one of the dancers from the Broadway show "Cats/* community store, a woman in line behind me hauled off and slapped her child (about age 6) as if she were fighting an adult. The kid hit his head against the candy : counter and started hollering as if he were in im- \ mense pain. ; The woman threatened the kid, and looked as if : she were going to hit him again when I followed my : first reaction, which was to say: "Miss, don't you : think you're being a little too hard?" ; She snapped back: "Look, I went through the pain .to have this child! I have to worry about feeding him. : Please see page B12 \
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