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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/The Charlotte Post Thursday,February 22, 1996
LISA COLLINS
Behind
the Scenes
the “The Remix Collection”
without their knowledge. Of
course, should Boyz II Men
• Silver screen
updates; Looks
like Whoopi
Goldberg will join
Alec Baldwin for Castle Rock
Entertainment’s forthcoming
film about the death of 1960s
NAACP civil rights activist
Medgar Evers. Evers was
Lawrence
gunned down in front of his
home in 1963 by KKK member
Byron de la Beckwith.
Goldberg is in final negotia
tions to portray Evers’ vridow,
Myrlie Evers, who now serves
as the NAACP’s national chair,
and on whose life the story is
centered.
Baldwin plays the district
attorney who pursued the con
viction of Beckwith. Ironically,
Beckwith’s conviction came
just two years ago. Juries
deadlocked in two prior trials.
• While Martin Lawrence
and the cast of “Martin”
recently celebrated their 100th
episode with a Hollywood
bash, New Line Pictures is
gearing up for the release of
Martin’s “A’Thin Line Between
Love And Hate,” which is slat
ed to make its box office bow
on April 5. The movie, which
also stars actress Lynn
Whitfield, was also written
and directed by Lawrence.
• So how unhappy are Boyz
II Men with new Motown
brass? Unhappy enough to
pact with Sony Music in a new
record label called Stonecreek
Recordings. The group says
they are working out their dif
ferences with Motown and new
CEO Andre Harrell, which
stem from Motown’s release of
decide to jump ship, Sony
would no doubt be a frontrun
ner in their label choice.
Meanwhile, Stonecreek
Records is being structured as
a creative launching point for
talented new artist they’ve
come across in their own trav
els.
Nasty business: A $10 mil
lion breach of contract suit has
been filed against LaFace
Records and confounders
Antonio “LA” Reid and
Kenneth Babyface Edmonds
by former business manager
Willie Carter. In the suit,
which was filed in Los Angeles
Superior Court, Carter also
alleges fraud. He maintains
that he played a key role in the
development of relationships
that ultimately led to the suc
cess of LaFace Records in his
five year-plus stint as their
business manager. For that he
says he was to get a 5 percent
stake in the label, but Reid
and Edmonds deny that there
was such an arrangement.
Instead, they are quoted as
saying “some people will do
anything for money.” However,
last August, Perri “Pebbles”
Reid, the estranged wife of
Antonio “LA” Reid, filed suit
against both Reid and
Edmonds for trying to steal
TLC from her company,
Pebbitone.
Supreme rights: Mary
Wilson has sued four members
of the Supremes - Kaaren
Ragland, Hollis Paysuer,
Scherrie Paynes and Lynda
Lawrence - charging that they
are violating her exclusive
right to the famed group’s
name. Wilson, who cofounded
the Supremes in 1960 and has
managed the group since the
departure of Diana Ross,
alleges that the former mem
bers have used the trademark
Supremes name in booking,
advertising and promotional
materials. Wilson is now seek
ing to bar them from using the
name along with a portion of
the profits and punitive dam
ages.
• On the home front: A
jury has found Jeffrey Bowens,
the husband of Bonnie Pointer,
guilty on two counts of simple
battery for that now infamous
Christmas Eve battle that
broke out between Bowens, his
wife and her older sister, June
Pointer. Bowens faces a maxi
mum of six months in jail and
a $2,000 fine for each count of
battery. Sentencing takes
place this week...
From “the hand that rocks
the cradle file,” Levar Burton
and his wife Stephanie have
filed a restraining order
against a nanny they recently
fired. They say that since her
dismissal, they nanny has
made unwelcome visits to
their home as well as threat
ening phone calls. The nanny
claims that the Burtons owe
her a lot of money. In accor
dance with the restraining
order, the former nanny will
have to keep 250 yards away
from the Burtons’ home and is
restricted from making any
contact with them...
By the way: Stephanie Mills
and Teddy Pendergrass are
teaming for the LA production
of “Your Arms Are Too Short To
Box With God” next month.
Test Drive.
RAV4 is cute and dependable
Continued From 3B
120 horsepower, 16-valve,
four-cylinder engine. It’s bor
rowed from the last generation
Camry. With 125 pounds-feet
of torque and a relatively low
curb weight, the engine does a
more than adequate job.
The vehicle’s four-wheel
drive system cannot be
swished off. There is no low or
high gear selection, either. It’s
actually all-wheel drive (per
manently engaged like Audi’s
quattro system), but for what
ever reason Toyota chooses not
to use that name.
Probably because this little
buggy is as tough as its big 4x4
siblings. Driving the RAV4
through the forrest didn’t
point out any glaring limita
tions. The ground clearance is
only 7.5 inches, so we didn’t
get crazy, just silly.
We ripped through the for
rest at a brisk pace behind a
Land Cruiser driven by Xavier
Dominicis, head of Toyota’s
southeast public relations
branch. For those of you don’t
know. Land Cruisers aren’t
afraid to go anywhere (and
neither is Xavier). I’m happy
to report that a RAV4 is just as
fearless. Not deep sand, not
bumpy roads nor bad pave
ment stopped the vehicle. It
kept pace with the Land
Cruiser. Well, sort of Xavier is
a madman behind the wheel,
so sometimes the distance
between the lead and second
vehicle was substantial.
Don’t worry. We only drove in
areas where vehicles were per
mitted. Ocala has bunches of
trails and roads for dirt bikes
and SUVs. We didn’t disturb
the wildlife. Thankfully, the
grizzlies decided to stay at
home.
The RAV4 handled like a
champ in the woods and on the
highway. The fully indepen
dent suspension makes the
truck a nice highway cruiser.
Surprisingly, the ride quality
did not diminish in the shorter
wheel base two-door. I expect
ed to be jostled about but that
didn’t happen.
It does have a few shortcom
ings. There’s a fair amount of
wind and road noise at high
way speeds. I drowned it out
by cranking up the stereo.
Also, the engine whines a bit
but it didn’t feel underpow
ered, especially with the slick-
shifting five-speed manual.
Price might be a problem as
well. Things such as power
windows, door locks, air condi
tioning, cassette radio and
ABS are optional. The two
door’s base price is $14,948,
while the four door starts at
$18,098. Add stuff like a CD
changer, double sunroofs (on
the two-door, one on the four-
door) and a variety of packages
to dress it up and you push
$25,000 - well in range of a
larger SUV.
But if you don’t get option-
happy, this vehicle can be nice
ly equipped for around
$18,000. 'That’s more than rea
sonable for what you get.
What you get is a class-lead
ing mini-SUV with the heart of
a mid-size sport ute.
And it’s cute, too. Who could
ask for anything more from a
Toyota?
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