T * ' ~ Poetry Corner By Jane Penn "Sundays" I thank God for Sundays 1 can rest my tired body evaluate my life be with my family and cease from all strife There are many things that 1 can choose to do, v most of all Lord, Sundays are for you. Jayne Penne' "Let Me Be" Walk away and let me see all the brilliance of the world, all the love in me. .^lci me snare in lire's gitts and add to its greatness. Just walk away and let me live. Jora H. Odom Send your poems to Poetry Corner, P.O. Box 3154, WinstonSalem, N.C., 27102. We are not responsible for returning submissions, and, because of the volume of mall received, there may be some delay in your poems appearing. I I STARSCOPE* V* by Clare Annswell * ? WEEK OF: SEPTEMBER 13, 1964 AQUARIUS - January 21-February 19 When It comes to advice, you're better at dispensing than at receiving. Stubborn friend becomes a little more flexible, but don't expect a complete about face. PISCES - February 20-March 20 Intuition is not as sharp as you thl.ik ? especially with regard to money matters. Writing is a present strength. Express your feelings and Imagination through the written word. ? ARIES - March 21-Aprtl 20 Information about friends is not as reliable as you may think. Loved one's generosity ? timewise and moneywise ? proves an unexpected pleasure through this period. TAURUS - April 21-May 22 Some touchy matters at home or on the job require prompt attention. Communication difficulties may delay a trip or a plan. Budget and health require a careful review. GEMINI - May 23-June 21 Optimism is your middle name and wins you admirers and supporters. Partnership arrangements can be favorably launched by Wednesday. Guarantees should be in writing. ' CANCER - June 22-July 22 Career matter is stalemated, but carry on with present chores. Friend counts on you for support ? likely regarding a romantic matter. Status at home improves. LEO - July 23-Auguet 22 Unexpected arrivals can lead to a social dilemma ? and tact is allimportant. Repair work requires prompt attention ? but don't look for cut-rate assistance. VIRGO ? August 23-September 22 Spend time arranging priorities ? particularly ones that relate to education and career path. Watch tendency to go to extremes ? exaggerating, overestimating, etc. LIBRA ? September 23-October 22 One-time rival becomes a supporter. Beware of pranksters and practical jokers, especially toward the weekend. Home improvement plan is highlighted through this period. SCORPIO ? October 23-Novembcr 21 People from faraway places contact you for Information or advice. Travel dream may begin to materialize. Relationship benefits from a lighter approach. SAGITTARIUS - November 22-December 22 Behind the scenes, strings are being pulled that may affect your professional or academic future; be bright ? and be natural. Romantic relationship perks up on weekend. CAPRICORN - December 23-January 20 Good week for talking out a difficult problem, but choose your confidant with care. Financial dispute needs prompt and effective resolution; make this a priority item. BIRTHDAY THIS WEEK Wherever you go, you manage to learn something. The next four months should therefore be filled with knowledge ? for travel appears on the horizon. Watch tendency to concern yourself with too many details while Ignoring the larger concepts. BORN THIS WEEK September 13th, singer Mel Torme; 14th, actress Joey Heatherton; 15th, actress Margaret Lockwood; 16th, jazz great B.B. King; 17th, actor John Rltter; 18th, actor Robert Blake; 19th, actress Twiggy. iiwwwiiMiiniiiiiiinimmMimei?iiin?leiminw?iswmiwiwwiMimiiiniHininwiieniinwnniiii Yolonda From Page B6 HimminiiiiHmntmHiimtiwuutHwtitimwiiHiwwHwmiwiwimwwMiiwmMHiiHiiiiwiwiwwwwwswwtHww JFhere are some sophisticated tests that can determine whether or not your problem is medical and, therefore, correctable. Clipping Coupons Saves Money Dear Yolonda: I don't have a gripe but I thought I'd write in to give your readers a helpful tip. i'rw rmir?nn-rlinn#T I ao throuch several newsDaoers and 1 III ail U V IU wupwia . - 0- J, magazines each week to find all the coupons I can. I've been doing this for approximately 12 years, and I can truly say that I save at least $20 per month off my food bill, sometimes even more. I believe that the people that don't bother to take the time to clip coupons are unaware of the money they could save. It's a pity that more low- and middle-income people are unaware of the money that they could save with just a little effort. Please pass this on to your readers. Mary Lee K. Dear Mary Lee: Add me to that unaware group who avoided the task of coupon-clipping. But the results are unquestionable. I recently read that families with incomes of $ 15,000 per year or more are more likely to be users of cents off coupons than families with incomes that fall under the $15,000 mark. That tells me something. m ___ __ Broadway is they couldn't do anything for me. 1 just would not talk." Jones broke his self-avowed silence when a teacher learned he wrote poetry and persuaded him to read it to the class. "To my complete surprise I did not stutter," he says. "After that experience I was able to speak normally again."... Teddy Pendergrass is resisting approaches from producers who want to translate his life story to the screen. He explains that, at this point, "1 ?MMMMMMMmnnnummmmmmimm Spotlight When only 12, he entered ai singing Sam Cooke's "Another a part of numerous local groups ters -- singing, writing songs, p Moses Dillard and the Tex-towi the band on gigs in Southeast America. "Moses is responsible for the real first name is Pepo. It's a Fi gave me but my family was in wanted a real name. You can't went through with a name like tl still call me Pepo. But for som and it came out Peabo. After i that way, I went with it." After a couple of years in coll his calling and dropped out to v record himself. His single "Und the soul charts in 1976 and wa (Bang Records). The latter broi Records, which released "Reac the helpof the hit single "Feel 1 First gold album. His next reco topping the soul charts and cros "I'm So Into You" reached tf single. ~ "Every piece of music I've < way into the grooves of my re< ching Jackie Wilson turn a cro into such a frenzy that people si total control. I saw Sam Coo down inside." D rmrr /> * ' r< Y% ao rf P aU r/xr? /*r ? ui 73UII a 11va.11.1v11 aiiv tions. His albums "Paradise,' duet with Roberta Flack), "We with Natalie Cole that yielded t Some Time" and "What You Hands Of Time" (a compila Peabo's early work), "I Am L "Born To Love" (again with "Straight From The Heart," h "Having a new record comp energy short of skydiving or g "and I'm deathly afraid of hei emotional step this is for me. work." Bryson's trademark is his sn ability to convey true emotions "Romance is relationship, devotion," he says. "Of cour: hypothetical. In real life it's a t some 01 tne amoience ana gian that most of the time no two pe you're lucky, you fall in love re time. But falling in love is a wo pen to you in life, it's sad." But there's more to romance "Commitment used to mean out it doesn't work or until it g portray that it's surviving throi ship work. It's not a perpetual i valleys. That's what lovin' is. A out of ipve at different times.' . For Bryson, "Straight From step forward. Thofigft he is a three of the album's tracks we: r-- v - a target for your own self-indul willing to take some of that w< Maturity is also managing to at the same time appealing to "Now I have a lot of older never had before," Bryson sa; and people who like Benny Go ficulty in associating the face \ Assuredly, the majority of h "I have a large female folio describe my life," he says. "T1 a kind of camaraderie, a kind my records are beginning to ap my fans. They don't wear jea Maybe it's because I dress up. I of an event. I think, too, it's ar the years." Obviously, following the cu Well-dressed, well-mannered a Atlanta rather than New Yoi about staying away from the i "It's easier to keep myTfcett he says. "This business can ma usual ftivofous behavior. rm an enigma. 11 too* me I'm different. I'm an individu "If you're Bryson and blacl I my beat ?n don't want to put a movie about myself out there. Besides, I don't know the ending yet." Even as it stands, it's a story of incredible courage and tenacity. His near-fatal accident of 1982 left the singer -known as one of the top male sex symbols on the pop scene ? close to being completely paralyzed. But that hasn't stopped him. From his wheelchair, he's formed Teddy Bear Enterprises (a music nnhlishino and manaopm?nt company), created the "Love From Page B6 id won a school talent contest by Saturday Night." He soon became such as A1 Freeman the The Upset>laying keyboards. He then joined [i Display and, at 16, accompanied t Asia, the Caribbean and across ! name Peabo," Bryson says. "My rench West Indian name my father an uproar when he did that. They imagine the hassles and troubles I lat. At home and with friends, they e reason Moses couldn't say Pepo eight years, of him introducing me ege, Bryson realized that music was /rite and produce. He also began to erground Music" hit the Top 25 on s followed by the album "Peabo" ight him to the attention of Capitol :hing For The Sky" in 1978. With rhe Fire," the LP became Bryson's rd, "Crosswinds," also went gold, sing over into the pop Top 30 chart, le top spot on the soul charts as a ever heard has somehow found its :ords," he says. "I remember watwd to mush with a ballad and then tarted getting hurt and yet he was in ?ke moving his listeners from way 1 heartwrenching voice were sensa' Live and More" (a double^afbiTfti 're The Best Of Friends" fa team-un wo more Top 10 soul hits), "Gimme Won't Do For Love''; "Turn The tion of never-released sessions of ove," "Don't Play With Fire" and Flack) bring us to the present and is first effort on Elektra. any is the most wonderful surge of oing on a roller coaster," he says, ights so that tells you what kind of This is a reward for all my hard looth-as-satin voice and his unique ) in a romantic ballad, chance, blind faith, commitment, se, that perfect romance is at best ad bit different but you can capture lour. The pain comes from the fact ople fall in love at the same time. If asonably around the same period ot nderful thing and, if it doesn't hap) than sex, he adds, commitment, not just until we find ets too difficult," he says. "I try to jgh suffering that makes a relationstate of Utopia. There are peaks and md some of the down time is falling The Heart" is an important musical consummate solo artist-producer, re written and produced by others. if- zAymtkAS&z*. ^ :h project. The danger comes when jurself. It's difficult to relinquish ^our own worst enemy. You become gence. Maturity comes when you're sight off you." stay true t^tyour devoted fans while new ones, ne adds, as well as younger white fans I've ys, "people who like Duran Duran odman. But I know there's still difvith the voice." lis fans are women, wing because of the words I use to lev like secrets and sharing secrets is of relationship, too, a sharing. But )peal to more and more men. I love ins to my concerts. They dress up. like that. It makes the concert more i unspoken respect I've built up over rrent fashion is not Bryson's style. i n r\ nra/?iAiie ka k?1? avac in lit/inn in uivi 51 aviuu^i iiw i/vnw v?9 111 u?111 k or Los Angeles and is adamant lsual^yr&c found in show business, rlose to the^ground here in Atlanta,'1 i^e you craiy. But I abstain from the : better part of my life to realize that al and that's freedom to me." c and see history as it was and all the The Chronicle, ThursdJ ym Pag? B8 ^ Language" Asylum LP that went into release last month, and supplied the title song and theme for the Septemberdebuting "Choose Me" film, which stars Genevieve Bujold, Keith Carradine and Lesley Ann Warren. And,^ through arduous physical therapy, he's already proved doctors wrong ? who predicted he would remain a nnaHranUoir hv rpoainina V^UUUI MpiV^)lV V J m v^uilllll^ use of his arms. In the last few months, he's been working on getting back control of his bloodshed and the hatred that's right to do anything you want, some controlled substance. We j c --JH 1 I jjiiMMiirrrr E THE LITTLI BmrxunrxE 610 COLISEUM DRIVE (919) 72550 im CbutwaA 0 "A The Popi Tic Student, S*r * I ^ ? ?? m inj imjutmn' The Rows Repc An incisive social and | the award winning jour c?.~_ i i r* i i ? opuiisurcu uy ^nrysier Corporation. Listen to the Rowan Friday at ( 7:55 A.M. ] W/ "98 T ay, September 13, 1984-Page B7 fangers. Right now Pendcrgrass is considering expanding his horizons into film production and music television. Making reference to the latter, and to his physical condition, he says "it wouldn't be absolutely necessary for me to be seen all the time on a video." Pendergrass acknowledges the road back has been dif ficult and$ays, "there are a lot of problems that are hard to take." And he's taking it all in remarkably good fashion.... IMtMltUMMMMMMMIMIMUMMflMMMItlttMilMmmiMMI , subsided and now you have the I'm not about to give that up to ust stopped being led!" lINOAjHAVE .SEEN MY7EEDY-0 X I irf Tj E THEATRE H 11 f!I ItI I I IITTI 4001 WINSTON-SALEM. N C ?7106 Aahy $aaAon KijtfctMg Gw" jlar Cole Porter Musical eptember 14-23 kets *9.00 & >8.00 i tor CltlfnAnd Qroup 'all 725-4001 in rt. political commentary by 1 T Dmimn UOliai, v^ai i t. rvurrtui. Corporation and K mart Report, Monday through > on tAA riple A''