Newspapers / Winston-Salem Chronicle (Winston-Salem, N.C.) / Aug. 12, 1982, edition 1 / Page 2
Part of Winston-Salem Chronicle (Winston-Salem, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
Page 2-The Chronicle, Thi IIIIIIIMtlttlllMllimilllttllltllllllllltMHMMIMM Hauser 5 iHumnimmiiiuiiimumMiiiiimiMiiiiMMii the Johnny Carson show is part of w hat producers look to for talent. "It's a clear indication of what's happening in the business and it makes me very mad," she says. While Hauser lauds "Roots" as a great work, she says it could have been developed more from a black perspective and should have been done totally by blacks. "It was a fabulous work," she says, "but as wonderful as 'Roots' was, it had a long way to go." Hauser played the part of a woman who married a white man, played by Richard Thomas of "The Waltons" fame. She says her character was not as developed as it should have been and that more of the story^ 7 was. told?frarrT the perspective of Thomas' family as was the a large part ot tne tilm dqpictecT" too neaviiy trom a white perspective. She says the industry and more blacks are beginning to realize that blacks need to own producing companies and produce more films. "The entertainment in dustry has propelled a lot of us into stardom," she J ? says, "but we don't own panies or there are very few black producing companies that are functioning." _ ?? She says the record in-? dustry," with its black "companies such as .Motown, is a prime example of what the television industry needs to do. Hauser says she also sees cable television as a frontier in film for black people. Though there has been much criticism of the portrayal of blacks on television and especially? ? r\f fflrtoin Ulool/ kj i wiiaiu laiPw iuui* edies?such?as?"Good? -Times," Hauser says her . r * IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIIItlllllllllltl Chroniclt From J illllllllllllllMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIII Little would be good." Sylvia Brooks: "Alderma very nice choice." Bertha Revels; "Robert make a good president. H educated man." Mike Grace: "I don't kno son, but a person who's you city and county government, a native of Winston and kno a woman. Attorney Beverly P Joseph Lewis Jr.: 44Larry volved in the community, h black people, and he speaks Muriel Wilkins: 4 4 Larry V with him when he was camp; as anybody else, I wouldn't Hanry Marrhnli' 4M imaj past experiences, he has prov him because he seems to be Michael Pettigrew: 44I thir a good one. He's been on the to the top, and I think he ca James Walker: 44Mrs. Ricl ban League. To me, she's abreast of most things that munity'." Dorothy M. Fair: 441 th would make a very good on< TV and have seen him in the NAACP. I think he would < iiiiiiiiiiimiitmiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiiiiimmtiiii Center illHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINNimilllllNIIIIIIII fund the Neighborhood Justice Center won't be known until in the fall. In the meantime, however, the Task Force is seeking alternative monies for the project, says Smith, and has gotten good response from those interested in being volunteers for the mediaI he H mston-Salem Chronic ihc Winston-Salem Chronicle F Trade Street, Mailing Address: N.C\ 27102. Phone: 722-8624 Winsion-Salem, N.C. 27102. Subscription: SI3.52 per year Included.) PUBLICATION US ? ) J . irsday, August 12, 1982 ittlttttlttttttttltlltlllHttMttMMMtMtWMtMtltMIt Says Bla< IIIIIIHIIttllltllltiillllMlltlllMtlHIMtMltllltllll1 criticism is not of existing black shows. "Television is television," she says, 4'and teles ision is no great intellectual land. I don't really criticize the black shows that are on. My criticism is that we don't get enough of the spectrum^ of black shows." She says that there are white shows, like ''Petticoat Junction," that weren't exactly "saviors of the white race" and the problems with having, shows that may be viewed as stereotyping blacks is that hi arte Hrxn'f Koua viMvnj UVII I IIU?V enough variety in how they're portrayed in television. . "And we don't have the variety because white people control the media," she says. ~^Haiiser says, TrT some instances, shows like ."Roots" and "Sister, Sislei," a leceiil NBC drama about black middle class life by author Maya Angelou may not be shown because of a, fear that blacks won't approve of their portrayal in them. "Our problem is that we are not tolerant of ourselves," she says. "We swallow the myth that we Rave to bf ?perfect." Hauser sees the black exploitation- films of the '60s as a beginning for the development of black portrayal in film and maintains .that, instead of trying to kill those ui 1-_ -l 1 J jnur?3, uidtKb bllUUlQ have been willing call for more development of the black characters. "Had we allowed ourselves to develop those films, had we allowed the baby to walk, they could have become more excellent films," she says.?"We still have a lot of growing - to do. We are very in-? tolerant of ourselves. We iiiiiiiiiiimittitiiiiiiiMititiimiHiMNitiiiiiii. i Camera page 1 imHiiiiimtimiiiiimiiiMtiiiiMiiiiitiititiiHi in Larry Little would be a Miller. I believe he would e's a businessman and an w if there's a particular peringer who has worked in the someone like Patrick who is ws the people. I think maybe Mitchell is extremely active." Little. I think he's very inle seems to care a lot about up for black people." Vomble. I've been affiliated aigning for alderman. As far want to speculate." Sine Lnrry Littla Fromrkis^ ed to be a good leader. I like behind all of us." lk he (Larry Little) would be : bottom and climbed his way in help others do the same." icy Wilson; she's with the Urvery intelligent, and she's are happening in the comink Rev. (Warner) Durnell I have heard him speakt)n ) Chronicle talking about the do a very good job." iiiiiiiiiiiiiiitniiiNiiiiiniiiiiittitiiiniiiiitiiH From Page 1 tion board. Smith says she is is positive that the program, once established, will be a success for Winston-Salem. 44It worked in other places, so I have no reason to think people here are any different from anyplace else," she says. le is published every Thursday by >ublishing Company, Inc., 516 N. PX). Box 3154, Winslon-Salem, i. Second Class postage paid at payable in advance (N.C\ sales tax PS NO. 067910. ; ... lllttttllMtltlMllttttMIIMIIttllltlttMltliMllllttllllll :k Images imhmiiininhiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiuihmiiiiiiii think we have to be perfect." Because of that attitude, Hauser says, there is also pressure on actors, who may be concerned that the part they are playing in a film may be deemed questionable, that they may be viewed as an example fdr the all black performers, or may be looked to by blacks to change things in the film industry. "I've often agonized about parts," she says, "but I can't take on that weight. 1 mean, I have to pay my rent. People expect that actors can change things. The entertainment business is about images. ?It's the image uiaKcrs. u s> a very powerful business. The people inside can change some, but it's the people outside wlio can change." One project Haiiser ~ says she would like to in ~ itiate is~a to produce a ~ drama on the Egyptian era, or play a role such as Cleopatra, queen . of Egypt, because the true ?ride in I a Black Amer American ec spend over 3 consumer gc million a mc millions moi billions in ta reinvested ir ? economic dc Usinj nni F\ me uemoc the Republi stands for ( "7 America is ? 0 appease us, reciprocity We must re relationship as Black pei exile ? must intporitv Ct "4VV0 J ^ its buildings business rer must vote f dollars. OnJ f ' : " - ' I IIMIIMIIIIIMIMIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIMIIIIIIIIIIIMUMII i Lack V; mmiHiiiiiiiiiiiaimitmoimiMiutiiiiHiiiui story has never been told, she says. "Cleopatra didn't have blue eyes and she wasn't Elizabeth Taylor," she says. Because whites control the industry, Hauser says white performers usually play the parts in such films. "On top of this is the fact that there's just a lot of lies about the way things were and are,"*she says. Hauser says she would like to see more of the truth in film n /-* in c-t > uui 111 mill, lIV/l JU31 lilt black perspective or the white perspective. While Fay Hauser, the performer feels she has yet to fully arrive in the entertainment industry, Fay Hauser the businesswoman is struggling to keep up with the whirlwind growth of a thriving greeting?card business. For Hauser, designing the cards began as a way of giving gifts to friends;.^ ' She says because her friends enjoyed the cards so much, because the entertainment industry is VOii Cfli Wr W W WWW! to free n. haroi hariot! icans are indispe :onomy and boc >140 billion a ye< >ods and service )nth in union di re to pension fui Lxes. Yet our dol l our community ivelopment.?? I our dollars for dollars :rats may stand icans for workfa 3UR SHARE? < * | uMiig suciai gem when we need < to develop us. negotiate our ec< with corporate ople ? an occupi ; fight for econo Drporate Americ ; to the suburbs nains in our con or dignity everyc [y if we resist an -- IIIIIIIIIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIItlllMMMMttHltHIHII ariety IIIIIIIIIIHIIItllllllllltHIHIIIItltltlllllllllllItt what she calls an "iffy" business and because most cards that have blacks on them aren't made by black people, "I thought that it is time that we start generating most of our dollars." Hauser, like many blacks, is an advocate of supporting black businesses ami/ keeping money circulaYng in the black commuNity, and says blacks should be more 4 'prejudiced'' about where the/ snpnrl --- ' ~V "K"'** their dollars. Hauser's cards are sold in cities throughout the country, including Houston, Washington, Buffalo, N.Y., Los Angeles and WinstonSalem. Though the business is expanding, Hauser says she still does all the work. " I am truly what they call a cottage industry," she says, "It takes more time than I had an ticipated and hasn't given me enough time to be creative." Hauser says the n't aom ihk )99 ?Rev. Jesse Jack 1 :nsable to the ly politic. We ir on s, pay $30 les, contribute nds, and pay lars are not / for our to fight for welfare and ire ? but who Corporate srosuy 10 economic = onomic ^ America. We, ied people in mic territorial a has moved but its !i... nr. linuiiuy. we iay with our d demand our llllllllillllltlHIIIIItlllltttatllllltlltllllllllHMl amount of success she has had, especially in the entertainment industry, is a surprise because she ' J..,* . * ^I v KB a 9 These young boxers, coai trophies while partlcipa display at the Revnolds-F Festival, From the left~a pounds, who both partic held recently in Lincolnt Darrel Harriet, 106 poui Guthrie). * . m son share will we This is the ph the PUSH foi to mobilize th black commu changes Ame economic ord -?We must org; economic rc3i trade only wi enough to tra We need each each other, n< w 1J Only an organ/2 tional resistanc NAME ADDRESS _ CITY/STATE/Z PHONE $10_ Make checks pa IL 60615 You will you informed, up would like to bec< call " , * i IIMIIIHHtllllllHIHIIIIIIHIHIIHIIIIIIIIIMHIIIIItlH From Page I hadn't planned for it. MI just sort of take things as they come," she says. t4I like stretching, and doWW ...; f to. ched by trainer Whit Lowry, iting in state-wide compet ^arlt Recreation Centcr-dwli re Garlos Brown, 70 pound ipated in the Junior State on. Michael Miller, 90 poun rids, is a Junior Olympic c r achieve self-deteri ilosophy and the r Economic Justic le combined resoi nity into a force t rica and creates a er. anize and unify a istancc movement th those who resp ide with us. 1 other's help. Let Dt on each other. NOBODY ILL SAVE US FOR US, BUT US. loin the PUSH for Economic , 'ed economic resistance movement ca e campaign TODAY! IP r $25_J $50 _$100 _ /able to Operation PUSH and'send to 93< receive a RESIST card and periodic RK todate and resisting targeted companies i )me a part of the National Salactlva Pa* X>M. ? i lllltlllllllllllllllltllimilllMHIMMMMttMMMi ing things I haven't done, but I'm not adventurous. I explore internal space m I have acquired quite a few ition as shown by their _ ig the Reynolda Park Fun s and Jameel Fareed, 80 Championship Olympics ids, is first runner-up and hampion (photo by Alan 4? r / f r j "'I'mion. invooagw ui :e. We plan irces of the hat new disciplined ??? that will ect us 's turn to v \ S s Justice r\ succeed Join the na $ . 3 E 50th Street, Chicago, 1ST newsletters to keep National oraamzations that tronag? Council should r c
Winston-Salem Chronicle (Winston-Salem, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
Aug. 12, 1982, edition 1
2
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75