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Arts & Entertainment o Piedmont Chamber Singers will hold auditions Piedmont Chamber Singers Inc. announces auditions will be held on Aug. 19 and 20 for those interested in singing with the area's finest cham ber choral ensemble. There are openings for all voice parts although PCS is particularly interested in auditioning bari tones and bass singers. Rehearsals will be on Monday evenings Aug. 26 to June 2003 with extra rehearsals called as needed during performance weeks. PCS performs vocal chamber music from early Renaissance to modern 20th century composi tions. PCS strives to train musicians in vocal music for the small vocal ensemble and is com mitted to broadening interest in choral music as a whole through education and performance. Come join PCS for an exciting 25th anniversary season. Anyone interested in auditioning should call the PCS office at (336) 722-4022 for an applica tion or send a resume to P.O. Box 10269. Winston Salem. NC, 27108. The r^sumd should include information regarding voice range, choral experi ence. foreign language competencies, vocal train ing and any other pertinent information. You may also contact PCS through its Web site at www.piedmontchambersingers.org. Former Miss N.C. says she resigned over nude photos RALEIGH (AP) - Rebekah Revels quit her post as Miss North Carolina last week because a former boyfriend told pageant officials about nude photos of her, she said Monday. The 24-year-old Revels told ABC's "Good Morning America" that the man took two pictures while she was changing clothes. She has not revealed his name. Kevels resigned her title last Tuesday after the man sent offi cials an e-mail about the pic tures. Miss America pageant offi cials said that Revels resigned of her own free will, but she described it as sort of a pre-emp tive strike. "The Miss America pageant was not going to let me compete because they feel I breached the Williams iihii in clause oi ineir coiuruci. after my ex-boyfriend e-mailed them and said, 'Ask her about two nude photos,"' Revels said. Her former boyfriend had surprised her by taking the photos while she was changing. Revels said. The photos depicted her nude from the waist up. A contract for pageant contestants prohibits them from "engaging in any activity that could reasonably be characterized as dishonest, immoral or indecent and from conducting themselves in any manner that is inconsistent with the standards and dignity of the Miss America Pro gram." a statement from the Miss America Organization said. In 1984. Vanessa Williams, the first African-Ameri can to ever win the Miss America crown, resigned from the post after nude photos surfaced that had been taken several years earlier. . Revels said her situation is different from that of Williams, who had posed for the nude photos. She said she didn't condone the photos and admits they were a mistake. Revels, who was Miss Fayetteville. was a high school English teacher and planned to use the $12,000 scholarship from the North Carolina title for graduate school. She was replaced by first runner-up Misty Cly mer of Raleigh. Camille Cosby to form African-American elders archive The late centenarian sisters Sadie and Bessie Delany are continuing to "have their say" and have helped cre ate the opportunity for other elders to do likewise. "Hav ihg Our Say," a top-10 rated television movie that pre miered in 1999. was rehroadcast on CBS on July 28 at 9J>.m. The film, produced by Camille 0. Cosby and Judith Rutherford James, was an outgrowth of the best-selling book by Amy Hill Hearth. It has become required read ing in many schools (the book has sold more than 2 mil lion copies). Cosby and James also turned it into a critically acclaimed Broadway play, which received three Tony nominations and set records as the most frequently pro duced work in local and regional U.S. theaters. Cosby was inspired by the Delany sisters to form an initiative w ith Renee Poussaint (Emmy Award-winning television journalist and former network anchor) called the National Visionary Leadership Project (NVLP). This nonprofit organization was created to produce, pre serve and disseminate an extensive video archive of African American leaders aged 70 and above from all walks of life. The mission of the organization is to pro vide a pathway for the elders to inspire new generations of young people to learn about leadership and apply those lessons to their interactions with familyjeommu nity. workplace and the world. In one year's time, Cosby and Poussaint have com pleted extensive interviews with 30 national figures, including Andrew Young. Maya Angelou. Dick Grego ry. Dorothy Height. Shirley Chisholm. Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis. David Dinkins. Constance Baker Motley, Edwin Brooke. Gordon Parks and many others. Coretta Scott King will be interviewed later next month. Mitchell on the Move Photo by Eric C'harbonneau/BEImages.net Beary Barrington helps Daryl Mitchell at Walt Disney Pictures' world premiere of "The Coun try Bears." Mitchell, who is well known to television and movie viewers for his many roles, was in a tragic motorcycle accident three months ago which left him bound to a wheelchair. Mitchell stars in "The Country Bears" (which he shot before his accident). The movie also stars Haley Joel Osment and Christopher Walken. It is unclear whether Mitchell will ever walk again, but he is not letting the setback keep him down. This fall, he will be a regular on an NBC sitcom. Knowles loosens up diva image for 'Goldmember' BY ANTHONY BREZNICAN THF. ASSOCIATED PRESS I.OS ANGELES - It took a man with rotten teeth, shaggy hair and wretched fashion sense to crack the diva facade of Beyonce Knowles. As a counterpoint to her haughty, glamorous, finger-wag ging stage presence, the 20-year old performer has symbolically let her hair down by teasing it into a gigantic Afro for the raunchy com edy "Austin Powers in Goldmem ber." In person. Knowles - who plays crime lighter Foxxy Cleopa tra, a parody of the 1970s' blax ploitation heroines - is soft-spoken, but her quiet demeanor masks the power she wields in the entertain ment industry as the leader of Des tiny's Child, a Grammy-winning R&B trio. Not only is she the main singer, she has co-written and pro duced many of their songs. By making her big-screen debut in the second sequel to "Austin Powers" - a series known for tasteless sex jokes, bathroom sight gags and revolting villains - the elegant singer is trying to stretch her talents while showing audiences she doesn't take herself too seriously. "She's not remotely a diva. When you know her, she's the last person in the world you'd say that about." said "Goldmember" pro ducer John Lyons, who proposed Knowles to writer-star Mike Myers and director Jay Roach. Lyons said he was impressed by Knowles' starring role in MTV's hip-hop version of tlte opera "Car men." set in modem-day Philadel phia instead of 19th century Spain. "She had bad-itude." added . I Roach - a quality that came in ' handy for funky "Austin Powers" lines like "You're under arrest, sugar" and "You have the right to remain sexy." In "Goldmember." Foxxy Cleopatra is an undercover police officer moonlighting as a nightclub singer when she encounters retro superspy Austin Powers, who is tracking a villain with - as the title suggests - solid gold private parts. "The audience decides how to feel about Austin through the lead ing ladies." Roach said. "The jokes deliberately bring you to the edge of maximum discomfort - you're supposed to go 'ugh ...' But Foxxy is normal and cool, and she seems to like him. so that gives us permis sion to laugh." As the lead singer in Destiny's Child. Knowles projects a seduc tive-yet-independent image in songs like their breakthrough 1997 hit "No. No. No." which includes the lyric: "If you keep actin' this way/ You're gonna lose my love/1 ain't got no time to play." They perpetuated that image with the singles "Independent Women Part I" and "Bootylicious" from the "Charlie's Angels" sound track"; "Say My Name." which won Grammys in 2001 for best R&B performance and best R&B song. Along the way. the Houston based group has sold more than 28 million rfrords - and nearly self destructed from infighting. Destiny's Child - formed when Knowles was 8 - featured her and fellow child performers, often wearing costumes designed by Knowles' mother. Originally a quartet, the group staged $2 shows at their homes for neighbors and friends and performed at malls for ,SV( Knowles on C8 Photo courtes> of New Line Pictures Beyonce Knowles as Foxxy Cleopatra in a scene with Austin Powers himself, played by actor Mike Myers. Jamaican legend comes to town BY WALI PITT THE CHRONICLE Roots and culture will be on full blast Friday as world-renowned reggae musi cian and radio personality Mikey Dread conies to Ziggy's to perform some of his classic music as well as new gems he will I be unveiling for his loyal fans. ureau. a native of Port Antonio, Jamaica, has been involved with reg gae music since the beginning. Becoming the first DJ of the first all reggae radio show. D.A.C.T, which came on Jamaica Broadcast Corp. (JBC)in 1976. Dread Me was allowed to announce from midnight to 5 a.m.. when the radio station was normally off air. At this time in Jamaica reggae wasn't played on the radio or accepted as the cultural medium that the music is today. Dread "forced Jamaican broadcast media to recognize their own music." And with his unique style of broadcasting, the "Dread at the Controls" controlled the airwaves of Jamaica, winning top radio personality of the year for 1977-1978. Now Dread claims that reggae music - on the radio is "like a wildfire burning, spreading from city to city, state to state, and nation to nation." Here in the States the only musical association with actual heritage, culture, affiliation and associa I tion with Africa is reggae music, but African-American youths seem to be dis suaded from the cultural teachings and stray to other forms of music such as dance hall. Dev oted to spreading the voice of reg gae to all. Dread has recently received his bachelor's degree in communication so that he can take his message to another Sic Dread on C8 Artists slam music industry practices BY JIM WASSF.RMAN Hffi ASSOCIATED PRESS ; SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Singers and enlertainmeni attorneys criticized Cal ifornia's $41 billion recording industry Tuesday, testifying that it routinely under reports royalties and cheats artists of millions of dollars. The speakers were testifying before the state Senate's Judiciary Committee about alleged financial irregularities by the five global corpora tions that dominate the music business. Music attorney Jordan uon tngei estimated that record compa nies routinely "underpay 10 to 40 percent on every royalty" and dare artists to chal lenge it without killing their careers. "I've heard of this hearing described as a fishing expedition." said entertainment attorney Fred Wilhelms. "There are big fish out there." The record industry denied the charac terizations and cast the allegations in a con text of power negotiations between artists and their lawyers and the record labels. "That's what's going on here. No more, no less." said Steven Marks, senior vice president of the Recording Industry Asso ciation of America. The industry also released an econom ic analysis that showed fewer than 5 per cent of signei^irtists pnxluce a hit record. Set Artists ' C8 >
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