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RCA recording artist Nona Hendryj
audience with her songs "I Sweat"
edition of "Soul Train/' with Don C
Musical Notes
Michael and
to begin theii
The Jacksons tour, premiering the
music of the new Jacksons LP "Victory,"
will begin approximately June
15. It will reach 15 cities, include 40
concerts and span three months.
Jackson tours have always been
enormous. Madison Square Garden in
New York, for example, presented the
brothers with a gold ticket for selling
140,000 tickets between 1970 and 1981.
But, thanks to Michael Jackson's
current success, this tour promises to
be literally the biggest in the history of
contemporary music. New York concert
promoter Ron Delesener told Rolling
Stone magazine: "The Jacksons
could sell out a full week of dates at the
60,000-seat Shea Stadium and still not
exhaust ticket demand."
The "Victory," due for release in
April or May, will be the first ever to
unite all the males in the Jackson
brood.
? since "Oancrng^Machtrie" in T9T6 to
include brother Jermaine. who left the
family years ago to start a solo career.
And it is the first to include not only
Ask Yolonda
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By YOLONDA GAYLES
Syndicated Columnist
Dear Yolonda: I've got two beautiful sc
breaks my heart to see that both are urn
Both have good educations, and have mucl
yet no one will give them a chance to worl
What can I tell my sons when they say:
just want to work!"? I've tried to raise tl
honest. God-fearing young men. I've al
them that if they lived right, they wouldn
worry about a job. But I see that's not tri
My 22-year-old son has told me that, d
interview, he practically begged the perse
for any job the company had open, no rr
menial, and the interviewer never even b<
call him ba:k.
So what's next? I can't afford to send the
school.
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the entire original Jackson Five (Tito,
Marlon, Jackie, Jermaine and
Micheal), but 22-year-old brother Randy,
who first joined the group on
record several years afer Jermaine's ,
departure.
Like the previous platinum Jackson I
family albums "Destiny" (1978) and
"Triumph" (1980), "Victory's" songs
have been co-written and co-produced
by family members Randy, Jackie,
Marlon, Tito and Michael.
Michael, Tito, Jermaine, Randy,
Jackie and Marlon all sing lead.
Says Tito Jackson: "When the six
brothers get together and perform, we
have fun, and we sing a very special
kind of harmony. For us, it's magic."
A 'Kool' Achievement
^ Kool & The Gang -- the biggest R&B/
pop band of the 80s ? have just been
latest alburn, 41tn The Heart" (t>e-Liic/
Polygram Records). The album contains
the number one R&B, top-two
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show is Solar Records' Shalamar, performing its new hit, "Dancin'
The Sheets," as well as "Dead Giveaway." The long-running, synated
program airs Saturday, April 14, on WJTM-TV, Channel 45.
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HH together for two years. During most of that time, Y
lift - never had a job. I didn't bug him; I simply paid tY
t ^ bills. A couple of months ago, he found a job, bt
things haven't changed.
8iyes me very little money for the house, ar
absolutely no money for myself. He says he has 1
have $100 in his pocket every day. He gets paid on<
Yolonda a wee^ but obviously he's saving his money. He tel
me that, if I want something, all I have to dQ is to a!
selves to an employer. hjm {m ^ bu( when , ask a? , ge( a sQng ar
letermine who they are dance. He never gets me anything,
it that they're truly I feel like a darned fool now. I thought that ;
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Hollywood Today
Dance craze hitsj
the silver screen !
By VINCENT TUBBS i
Syndicated Columnist :
Remember when Fred Astaire and Gingerllogers
danced lyrically across movie screens? Or when j
Ceasar Romero whirled Carmen Miranda through
the air doing The Carioca? Or George Raft danced
the Bolero? You don't? Don't worry about it.
How about when John Travolta did his thing in
"Saturday Night Fever?" Or when Jennifer Beals (or ;
whomever) made your heart race in "Flashdance?"
Okay?
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thing about Tinseltown is now quickly a stampede :
develops when box office figures on a winner come j
in.
So, look out. The Bijou is about to go on a binge. ;
Movie trips into outer space are giving way to movies :
about dancing, dancing, dancing of every kind from :
ballet to "breaking" and all the rhythmic gyrations j
in between. :
Seven new stars will soar across the horizon when :
Sidney Poitier completes the multi-racial, dance- \
oriented Columbia Pictures drama "Shoot Out," <
which si arts filming in New York in May. It is "not 7~
about "break dancing." Its young stars learn as j
much about life as they do about having happy feet. \
Among others, Cannon Films will release ;
- "Breakdance" the first of May featuring Shrimp and \
Shabba Doo, who are billed as "the world's hottest J
breakers." About that time, co-producer Harry >
Belafonte will have completed Filming his "Beat !
Street" for an Orion Pictures release later this sum- 5
mer. j
Meanwhile, the most talked-about dance film on :
the boards is Columbia Pictures' pairing of tap t
,dancer Gregory Hines with world-renowned ballet
star Mikhail Barvshnikov in an untitled drama to
begin filming in Europe in July. i
In this one, the Russian leaves home in search of ?
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artistic freedom and the brother leaves home in '
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J search of social freedom. International model j
Isabella Rosselini, daughter of the late Ingrid :
Bergman, will make her U.S. film debut as (You i
ready?) Gregory's love interest.
HOLD IT! HOLD IT, NOW!! ? There are 186 :
(exactly) letters here, and the phone has rung 73 (ex- i
actly) times with pro and con comments on whether j
Richard Pryor should be hereafter addressed as . "Mister"
beacuse he's in control of $40 million to
make movies employing the best personnel available,
and opening as many doors for minorities as he can
(that's what he said Indigo Productions will do -- and
there's no reason to doubt him).
"He doesn't want to be called that," one of Mr.
Pryor's friends in Macon, Ga., called up to say.
"The greatest thing about him is that he hasn't
changed, and never will." And then, there was the
letter from a sports editor who has written about
"greats" from Jackie Robinson to Muhammad Ali,
observing philosophically: "These special people are
due it; not that they wish to be put up or that we
would wish to put them down. It's simply a matter of
respect."
Up to now, as said, there have been 257 other calls
and letters.
Whew!!
1 HERE'S INSTANT PROOF: Unimpeachable
Hollywood sources have discolosed (simultaneously
with the Time magazine cover story) that Michael
Jackson has a quite neat way of deciding how to
drape himself in those high-water, skinny-leg pants,
as well as the white socks, penny loafers spangled
jackets dripping with medals, and the right-handed
glove and sun shades that go with them.
They say that Mr. Jackson has "a roomful of man
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-dresses tip, accessories and all, to see how his outfits
lookT He'irsometimes costume as many as* 20 at
once, shifting hats, scarves or jackets back and forth
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relationship. But I see that's not the case,
e, Oh, I have a drinking problem, and this is his exss
cuse for refusing to give me any money in my hand,
ly But, believe me, I don't think the drinking is the real
problem. He says there is no one else. Oh yeah, I'm
much older than he is.
What do you think?
ig
ie B.L. in Brooklyn
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Jt Dear B.L.: Clearly, you've got to learn to face
your difficulties one at a time. First and foremost,
id you need support in your attempts to overcome your
to drinking problem. Obviously, your friend does not
ce seem willing to, or even capable of, offering that sup11s
port.
>k I suggest that you call the local Alcohol Treatment
id Out patient Clinic (listed in the phone book). Next,
tell your friend that, if he intends to stay in your
as home, he'll have to pay room rates. No fringe
al benefits,