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Page B8 The Chronicle, Thursday, March 15, 1984
Ask Yolonda
After her husbai
wife suooortive.
By YOLONDA GAYLES
Syndicated Columnist
Dear Yolonda: I wonder if you can find an
authority to help me with my problem.
My wife and 1 have been married 18 years. Basically,
we have a good marriage, but something has come
up, and I'm not so sure we'll overcome this hurdle.
A little over a year ago, it was determined that I
had cancer of the prostate gland. Seven months ago,
I had surgery, and, according to my physician, 1 have
recovered well.
^ Now the problem:
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been in my corner.
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even accompanies me
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doctor. But in another
way, since the opera__
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extremely distant. She
refuses to fulfill heAnarriage vows with me. Now, we
never have sex, At first, she fViade up excuses about
things -- she was always tired, or she wanted to make
sure I was well enough. Now she comes out and tells
me no.
My doctor has had a talk with her and told her that
we could resume normal activities, and she agreed
while we were in his office, but when we're alone, it's
the same old thing.
By the way, my wife has never really been all that
turned on to sex in the first place. Maybe that has
something 10 do with it. What next? A divorce?
Aron
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upcoming comedy, "Moscow On The Hudson," wh
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promised it
Up! Up! Maybe away!! That's the always get
way entertainment industry folk hope Colur
Richard Pryor's Indigo Production S41 -million
Co. will soar with $41 million of Col- during the
umbia Pictures' money to take us on 2) Pryor
trips never experienced before. sa^ he wa
But, as everyone knows, things got a provided <
bit messy a few months ago when
Pryor suddenly "fired" his very best ^ Pryor
friend, Jim Brown, who was president an(j pret^
and No. 1 honcho of Indigo. Horrors! manager a
Wasn't is Brown who sweated it out tively and
with Pryor while others counted him doors' to <
out, ripped him off and took his gold town -- an<
cuff links? invitees tc
So there was good reason for Pryor poem "Th
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ductions. Right? would ma
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Dear Aron: 1 spoke with a urologist who assured me
that the problem you and your wife share isn't
medical or legal. The problem is psychological. Even
though your doctor explained that you were physically
capable of resuming normal marital activities,
evidently the advice didn't register with your wife.
Unfortunately, your physician wasn't sensitive
enough to see that, and to refer you on to the right
person.
The right person in this case would be a medical
social worker from the hospital. They are trained in
making both the patient and family see that medical
and emotional healing must take place following, a
situation such as yours.
Cementing Rapport With Kids
Dear Yolonda: The letter about ways to build a relationship
with your children sparked a flame in me.
I'm divorced, and the father of three.
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j-?iiuuugu i vg uiaiiagcu iu maintain a rouercoaster
relationship with my ex, I know men who
haven't seen their children in two years because their
ex-wives are angry at them. It adds nothing but problems
for the children, but this is the only way that
the men's former wives can hurt them. And, who
knows the extent of the emotional problems this adds
to a kid's life? What we do know is that a great
^ number of those young men locked behind bars come
from homes that lack male guidance.
Please print this letter. Perhaps it'll wake up a few
parents who choose to use their kids as weapons.
Michael G., In Logan
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but I hope you saw the real message behind the col- ]
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De niece Williams in a remake Of Major Harris' "Lc
"Lead Me To Your Love."
Movie Review
In 'Against All Oc
3y RHONDA BRANNON
chronicle Columnist
Taylor Hackford, who last year brought us "An
Officer and a Gentleman," a movie about the
edeeming power of love, this year presents "Against
Ml Odds," a movie about the scheming power of
ove.
The plot in this movie has more twists than a
*ubik's cube! And once the unraveling begins, you'll
ind the characters to be a rather unlikeable group of
>eople.
Jeff Bridges, Rachel Ward and James Woods star
is the central figures in a menage a trois of murder,
ex and double-crossing. Bridges is Terry Brogan, an
ix-football player for the L.A. Outlaws who's been
ticked off the team because of a bad shoulder.
Brogan loves football and he's also broke and in
lebt. So, he's willing to do anything to play again.
Bridges handles the role aptly, injecting the apjropriate
amount of "jock bravado" that real foot>all
players exude.
And he's determined to continue playing even
vhen his body tells him to stop. (Speaking of bodies,
Bridges' is nice.) Football is Brogan's life; it's all he's
:ver known and all he wants to know.
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Ids', greed wins
He likes the good times, adulation and big bucks:
that come with being a player, and it's being taken ?
away from by someone who just thinks of him as a
way to make money. :
Rachel Ward portrays runaway rich girl, Jessie :
Wyler. She's also the daughter of the Outlaws' owner ;
and girlfriend to Jake Wise (James Woods). As :
Jessie, Ward is stereotypical in her interpretation. :
Jessie comes across as spoiled, self-indulgent and |
self-centered, all the characteristics the non-rich at- :
tribute to the rich. Even Ward's voice takes on a
whining quality during times when things are not going
quite the way Jessie would like them to. Ward
also injects a sense of fear and distrust of strangers in
Jessie, which makes you feel sorry for her.
Woods is oerfectlv cast as Take Wis#? In
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roles he's portrayed seedy, psychotic, criminallyinclined
individuals. In "Against All Odds" he's not
seedy ? he's moved uptown ? yet, there remains an
aura of uncleanliness. He's not rolling-eyed
psychotic, just slightly psychotic and slightly crazy
around the edges. He is a criminal, a bookie to be exact,
but not in some dingy dive.
He's the owner of a very big, very fancy, very sucPlease
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iancock to compose
er's Story ' music
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ian and Hancock, born in Chicago's South
igned by . Side, began piano studies at the age of
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nusic for the Mozart D Major Piano Concerto :
will be with the Chicago Symphony Ornbia
Pic- chestra. He studied under the legendary
music teacher Captain Walteraward
Dyett, whose previous pupils included
it" from Chicago jazz giants Gene Ammons and
:k," has Sonny Stitt.
3f music. "A Soldier's Story" is based on the
d as his Pulitzer Prize-winning drama "4
isic since Soldier's Play" by Charles Fuller, who
idhunters also authored the screenplay. Patrick
Dminated Palmer is executive producer with
'Rockit" Ronald L. Schwary co-producing with
Quartet." Jewison.
ng recor:tric
and Luther's Hot j
compos- ;
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"Death Please see page B10