SAT., SEPTEMBER 26.1981
THE CAROLINA TIMES -3
hur Part Mini-Series ^^The Sophisticated Gents'' To Air Tuesday
What makes the story of
le twenty-fifth reunion of
j athletic/social club par-
ciflarly diffrent for a televi-
311 drama — “The
3phisticaied Gents — is that
ich of the club’s nine
ambers is black. What
akes “The Sophisticated
knts” a uniqye television
ipcrience is that their color
alters not to the human
iiotions the drama evokes.
To be presented as a four-
3ur mini-series over three
ghts, “The Sophisticated
ents” will be seen for two
lurs beginning at 9:00
HI., on Tuesday,
September 29 and, for an
hour each, at 10:00 p.m. on
Wednesday, September 30
and Thursday October 1, on
the NBC - Television Net
work.
“The Sophisticated
Gents” was written by
Melvin Van Pebbles and bas
ed on the novel, “The Junior
Bachelor Society,” by John
A. Williams.
The cast is a veritable
Who’s Who of leading black
actors. Starring as The’
Gents, in alphabetical order,
are Bernie Casey, Ro.sie
Grier, Robert Hooks, Ron
O’Neal, Thalmus Rasulala,
Sunday
September 27, 1981
Raymond St. .Jacques,
Melvin Van Peebles, Dick
Anthony Williams, and Paul
Winfield. Sonny Jim Gaines
plays their beloved old
coach; Albert Hall plays a
corrupt police detective.
Beah Richards, Bibi
Besch, Rosilind Cash, ja’net
Dubois, Janet MacLachlan,
Joanna Miles, Denise
Nicholas, Marlene Warfield,
Alfrie Woodward. and
Harry Guardino also star.
“The Sophisticated
Gents” explores the changes
wrought by time in each of
the nine men. Some have had
moderate successes, as in the
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Kenneth
Copeland
Jerry
Falwell
30 Minutes
Fat Albert
Jimmy
Swaggart
World
Tomorrow
Spiritual
Awakening
James
Robison
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Humbard
Oral
Roberts
Kenneth
Copeland
MightyMouse
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Drak Pak
Frederick
K. Price
Robert
Schuller
Church Of
Our Fathers
Three
Stooges
■S Friends
Gospel Expo
Show My
People
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30
45
Sunday
Morning
Jim Bakker
Sunday
Morning
Dr. Jerry
Falwell
Oral
Roberts
Rex
Humbard
Lost In
Space
Jimmy
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Day Ot
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Jerry
Falwell
Gospel
Jubilee
Car Care
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Jimmy
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Church
Hamilton
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Carolina
Football
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People
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cases of a concert singeT and
a playwright; others continu®*
to work in their home town;
one who became a pimp ac
cidently kills a cop on the
take — jeopardizing the
fragile stability of the lives of
the other Gents and their
families.
Each man’s life is seen in
the light of youthful dreams
that have or have not realized
in terms of work, marriage,
and relationships with one
another.
As “The Sophisticated
Gents” unfolds, old tensions
are revived but are subverted
as The Gents hold a
testimonial dinner honoring
their former coach, who
taught them the rules of
sports as well as the broader
goals of life. With the drama
charging toward its climax.
The Gents are faced with the
crisis brought about by one
of their number that tests
their bonds of loyalty.
Two Part Special
investigates International
“Circle Of Poison
The marketing of poten
tially dangerous pesticides
and medications in Third
World nations is the subject
of “Pesticides and Pills: For
Export Only,” a two-part in
vestigative report which
launches the new season on
Non-Fiction Television the
week of October 4, ON
CENTER Channel 4.
The two one-hour reports
detail how some multina
tional corporations market
farm chemicals and medica
tions that have been banned
or restricted in Western
countries. Part I, which airs
on Monday, October 5 at
10:00 p.m., focuses on the
indiscriminate marketing of
dangerous pesticides in the
Third World. Part II, airing ■
the following Wdnesday at
10:00 p.m., looks at the
distribution of phar
maceuticals.
In Part I, the film presents
information about farm
chemicals which, while bann
ed in the U.S., are freely ex
ported to the Third World.
Farmers in those countries
are pften exposed to the
dangerous chemicals without
knowledge of their potential'
health hazards. The film also
points out that the chemicals
often their way back into the
United States on produce im
ported from the countries.
It is estimated that at least
200 million pounds of bann
ed, restricted or unregistered
pesticides are exported an
nually for use outside the
United States.
Part II of the report ex
amines the export and
marketing of banned or
restricted medications and
drugs. The report explores
the charges that many of
these drugs are sold or
prescribed to patients by
physicians and pharmacists
who are not fully aware of
the dangerous side effects of
these pharmaceuticals.
Journalist Robert Richter,
filming.in Brazil, Costa Rica,
Mexico, Malaysia, Kenya,
and Switzerland, documents
how certain medications are
packaged and marketed
without proper instructions
on dosage, appropriate war
nings of possible dangers to
cetain usage of the medica
tions.
T-he film points out that a
major stumbling block in
controlling the spread of
these banned and restricted
medications is the absence of
any international uniform
standards governing the
marketing of such products.
Each government has its own
regulations regarding the im
portation of drugs. Meica-'
tions which may be banned
or restricted in the U.S.,
where the F.BbA. guidelines
are very strict, have no trou
ble being marketed in most
Third World nations, where
regulations are far more
relaxed.
Life Companies
Put $3@ Biiiion
in Stocks, Bonds
U.S. life insurance companies
invested $36.4 billion in corporate
securities in 1980 — the stocks and
long term bonds needed for busi
ness and industrial expansion and
the creation of new jobs, reports the
American Council of Life
Insurance.
In all, U.S. life insurance com
panies owned $227 billion in corpo
rate securities at year-end . 1980
(including short-temt securities),
an 8.7 percent increase over 1979,
the Council says.
These securities constituted 47.4
percent of the assets which back up
life company obligations to their
policyholder^
Almost 95^percent of life com
pany corporate bond holdings are
invested in U.S. corporations, with
Canadian corporations representing
the bulk of foreign bond invest
ments, according to the Council.