Page B8 The Chronicle, Thursday, March 29, 1984
Ask Yolonda
The 'other woman':
a distorted view
By VOLONDA GAYLES
Syndicated Columnist
Dear Yolonda: I've done a stupid thing and fallen
in love with a married man (I'll call him Keith). After
we had gone together for six months, 1 became pregnant.
Keith tried to talk me out of having the baby,
but 1 decided that I wanted our child. We now have a
beautiful baby girl.
Keith and 1 are still close, but 1 admit things chang- .
ed. For one thing, he's a policeman, and he thought I
would complain to his commander, or sue him for
child support. I would never do that, but he gets
these negative impressions about women from his
relationship with his wife. I know you think I'm biased,
but I know she's the reason for their poor marriage.
Anyone would have to agree. All of his friends
know me, and they beg me not to leave him.
Keith has asked his wife for a divorce, but she
refuses. She would rather hang around and make his
life miserable, then leave him. In fact, he was up for
promotion to become a sergeant, but he is with a
woman who doesn't motivate him.
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Bl m writing this to
give you one side as to
why a woman would
hang on to a relation- , *
ship. 1 know why.
Sasha
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you say about Keith's
Yolonda situation may, in fact,
be true. But, frankly, you'll never know what's going
on in somesome else's house. All you know is the side
Keith tells you.
Believe me, if Keith is so unhappy, he'll leave -regardless
of his job, or his commander.
Holiday
Dear Yolonda: My daughter is a Buddhist and very
active in her relioion She anH her frienHc cr?enH all
holidays, and most Sundays, chanting, thus, we
'never see her on holidays.
We have learned to accept her religious beliefs, but
what really hurts us is that we never get to spend one
holiday with our grandchildren.
What can we do about this? Since my daughter has
joined this religion, she has completely divorced
herself from family activities. We have told her
repeatedly that what she does and who she worships
is her business, but why leave us out? And, why
deprive the kids? *
What should we do?
Thelma
Dear Thelma: Rather than involve yourself in a
religious squabble, why not try another approach? A
holiday is simply a day set aside to celebrate a day or
event. Who says your celebriation has to occur on the
day the calendar suggests?
Musical Notes
Lewis to perform
in Stevens. Center
One of America's most versatile and successful
pianists will make his second appearance here in
less than two years when the Ramsey Lewis Trio
performs at the Stevens Center on Wednesday
evening, April 4.
Orchestra tickets at $11 and balcony seats at $9
are on sale now at the Stevens Center Box Office weekdays
10:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
A hit at Carolina Street Scene in September
1982, Lewis is in his third decade as a professional
musician and is busier than ever, both at home
and abroad. He is currently completing an album
with Nancy Wilson on the Columbia label, for
which he has recorded since 1971, and collaborated
with Bill Cosby in a fundraiser for Fisk
University in Nashville in February.
The Ramsev Lewis Trio is also iust rptnrnina
from a three-week tour of Japan which included
17 concerts in 14 cities there, and is looking forward
to a European trip this summer highlighted
by an appearance at the North Seas Jazz Festival
in Finland in July.
Like so many jazz musicians, Lewis had his
earliest training in classical music, in his case at
the Chicago Musical College. He studied with the
late Dorothy Mendelsohn, who got him involved
with Bach and Beethoven and taught him an important
lesson for any performer: i4She showed
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Television
Harewood to por
Columbus, Ohio Dorian Harewood has been signed
to portray Olympic track star Jesse Owens in
Paramount Television's two-part mini-series, "The
Jesse Owens Story." The program presently is being
filmed on location in Columbus, with further production
scheduled for Dallas, Texas. Other members
tof the cast signed to date include (alphabetically)
Tom Bosley, Georg Stanford Brown, LeVar Burton,
Barry Corbin, Ronnie Cox, Norman Fell, Lynn
Hamilton, George Kennedy, Debbi Morgan, Greg
Morris, Vic Tayback and Ben Vereen.
f Harewood starred as Doctor Nate Baylor in
^ "Trauma Center" and as Simon Haley in "Roots:
The Next Generations," the largest role in the
"Roots I & 11" saga. His other TV credits include
"Panic in Echo Park." "An American Christmas
Carol," "I, Desire" and the six-hour mini-series
"Beulah Land."
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Joining Harewood in the role of Jesse Owens'
wife, Ruth, is Debbi Morgan. She currently is a
popular star of the soap opera "All My Children"
and is a veteran of numerous television programs including
"Good Times," "The Love Boat,"
"Roots," "The White Shadow" and "The Incredible
Hulk."
Georg Stanford Brown, cast as Lew Gilbert, costarred
in "The Rookies" and became an integral
part of TV history when he portrayed Tom Harvey in
both "Roots I" and "Roots II." He has made many
appearances at the New York Shakespeare Festival
and the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles. Two of
his feature film credits are "Bullitt" and "Stir
Crazy."
Academy Award-winner George Kenhedy has been
cast as Charles Riley, Jesse Owens' mentor and high
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a robot-building whiz and also Jason's
best friend.
And Mary Crosby is Princess
1 get after Kariea, who, like every princess in
a? every space movie, has to be sarcastic,
ling I had pretty and in search of some lost
Pirates," relative.
d much of She hires Jason and his men to find
ert Urich, her father and a seventh planet that
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-fi movie The ensuing search and the rest of
f every re- the movie are filled with bad jokes ?
lm to ap- especially some about herpes ? and,
most of all, bad acting. As for the
the "Star editing, it appears as though the film
tral imita- was constructed to provide snappy
lire' from commercials more than anything else,
iet designs Maybe instead of being released in the
made and theatres it should have been a "movie
Tasteless of the week" on TV.
The one bright spot of my evening
Mithra is was the popcorn. They have delicious
y that has popcorn at Hanes Mall Cinema. "The
Templars, Ice Pirates," however, was something
or anyone old, nothing new, everything borrowed
it. That's and I was blue,
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I Mithra's "The Ice Pirates" is currently playot
too no- ing at Hanes Mall Cinema. It contains
nk for the profanity and violence and is rated
is Rosco, "PG.**