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King Family Keeps the Dream Alive Movie Reviews Bradshaw’s Bad, Better, Best Trying to decide which movie to see this week, but afraid of wasting the $5.50 it takes to get in? Well, don’t bother wasting your money or your time on The Grifters. This dark and disturbing film stars Angelica Huston, Annette Benning and John Cusack as three con artists who ultimately try to con each other. Lines waiting to see this film have been long, but crowds coming out of the theater express disappointment. Although the individual performances of the stars are top- notch, there doesn’t seem to be much of a story. What bit of plot there is slowly drags along. It doesn’t make for an uplifting evening at the cinema. A better choice would be Awakenings, based on the true story of Dr. Oliver Sacks. Robin Williams stars as a shy research physician uncomfortable with live patients. Robert DeNiro is the patient whom Williams awakens from a 30-year vegetative state which was brought on by encephalitis. Other similarly affected patients are awakened as well and the story centers on their discovery of life after having been asleep for so many years. Williams is excellent and DeNiro is outstanding as they both deal with DeNiro’s new life and the possibility that it may be taken away from him again. It’s a touching story—^you might need a hanky. If you’re in the mood for a laugh, catch Green Card Andie McDowell and Gerard Depardieu. Depardieu recently won the Golden Globe Award for best actor and the film took best picture honors. The story is simple. Boy is French and needs an American wife to qualify for a green card from immigration; girl is single and needs a husband to qualify for her chance-in-a- lifetime apartment/greenhouse in New York City. Mutual friend introduces boy to girl, they many, say good-bye, and figure never to see each other again. Immigration by Mary Beth Owen On April 4, 1968, civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was brutally murdered in Memphis, Tennessee. For many days following King’s assassination, America was gripped by anguish and fits of outrage. As the people calmed, a strong African-American woman and her four fatherless children were left behind to carry out the slain leader’s ideals. For many, Corretta Scott King has become the embodiment of her husband’s legacy. Now 64 years old, Mrs. Kinghas dedicated her life to preserving the memory and writingsbfher husband Quite a job she was left with—leading the largest civil rights movement in American history. She rose to the challenge and built an institution which is dedicated to Dr. King’s memory and his mission: “Ending the violence of poverty, world hunger, apartheid, and terrorism through creative nonviolent actions.” The Martin Luther King Center for Nonviolent Social Change is a monurnent to equality’s painful past and a symbol of equality’s investigators have other ideas. It’s a comedy of errors after that. The two “newlyweds” spend the weekend at McDowell’s apartment getting to know each other in order to pass the investigators’ test. The inevitable happens. She can’t stand his slovenly ways and he thinks her attempts to plant gardens in the inner city is a pointless exercise. They fall in love anyway. The ending is still a surprise, though. It's a ftjn movie and guaranteed cheerer-upper. If you like spy movies with a little romance thrown in, you’ll enjoy The Russia House. Sean Connery stars with Michelle Pheiffer in this fUm based on the best seller by John Le Carre. At times the spy plot is a bii hard to hopeful future. However, Mrs. King has encountered some negative responses from African- Americans who believe she has invested far too much time in the business of running the center rather than working toward social change in today's society. Martin Luther King III, the most well-known of the children, was only five years old when his father was killed. He has worked, diligently to make his father’s birthday a national holiday. The younger King served on several diplomatic missions to developing nations, and hopes to one day hold state and national offices. If he can master the art of bringing people together despite their differences, as his father did, he may yet rise to national attention. King’s daughter Yolanda, now 35, has taken up her father’s struggle in obvious ways such as speaking around the country about social issues and by being arrested during an anti-apartheid demonstration outside the South African Embassy. Her trademark phrase to her audiences is a plea to today’s generation to “Get up follow, but the romance is sweet and the scenery is superb. The film was shot on location in Moscow, Leningrad, London and Portugal. For fans of the first two Godfather movies, “Godfather Part III” is a must see. It has all the components of the first two: violence, high intensity, strong emotional performances. A1 Pacino, Diane Keaton and Talia Shire return to this third installment. They are joined by newcomers to the saga: Sofia Coppola and Andy Garcia. If none of these suits your taste, 1 also recommend Edioard Scissorbands, Dances With Wolves, Home Alone and Mermaids. off your apathy!” It is Dexter King whose oratorical style most closely resembles that of his father. Dexter resigned from the presidency of the King Center shortly after being named to the post, saying that he was “frustrated that the Center was not doing more to pursue the civil rights movement in the real world.” Although the recipient of the least amount of public attention, it can be argued that daughter Bernice followed her father’s footsteps more closely than any of her brothers and sisters. She became a minister. As King’s family struggles to “keep the dream alive,” it is the convictions of Dr. King which serve as a driving force behind their efforts. “The dream is a realistic dream. It is not going to happen today, this week or next, this month or next, or even five years from now. It may not even happen in our lifetime. It may be a hundred years. But it’s a dream that can come true. ” ( The Black Collegian, Jan/Feb 199D Centennial Celebrations Schedule February 27, 1991 10:00 am Centennial Founder's Day CMivocaticn, Jones Audiicrium, Or. Ruth Schmidt, President Agnes Scon Coilege, speaker. See your class president for free ticks i^oimation. 11:00 am Honor Ceremony outside Jones Audkorhun. Honorees: Thomas Meredith, Miss Ida Pcteat, Dr. Delia Dixon CarroU 11:30 • 3:00 pm Birthday Cake in the Rotundi, Johnson Hall. Erx>ugh for alll 3HX) pm "Parabie of the Morning Star* in Jones Auditorium. Performance written by Carolyn Robinson. Admission Is open. 4:30 pm Reaeation of Meredith's first worship service in Jones Chapei. Admission OpCTL March 11, 1991 10:00 am Ceruenniai UlUan Parker Wallace Lecture in Jones Auditorium with Supreme Court Justice Sarxln Day O’Connor. See your ciaia president for free ticktt Infonnaikm. 2KX> pm Symposium 'Women, Law, and JuHlw O’Connor* in Jones Audlt^um. PaneliM: Suzanne Reynolds, (1971), Wake Foreat School of Uw; Judy Huru (1^1), N. C. House of RepreMRtaUveai Martha Dkus (1971), S. C. Legal Scrvlcea; Margw Currln (1971X U. S. Attorney, Anne Bryan 0971), N. C. Dept of PubUc Imtruakn. 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