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Broadway Is My Beat
Diana Ross IN
For An Ailing
By Joey Sasso
Observations in Covering the Night Beat...Diana
Ross wanted to take a year off from performing,
but now she may have to stand in for Dolly Parton,
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certs because of her serious gynecological condition.
There are also definite plans to team Diana with
Elton John to videotape part of a concert series for
pay TV. They'll be in good company ? the series will
include Frank Sinatra's Yankee Stadium show...
Richard Pryor battled with producers to hire his
former girlfriend Margot Kidder to appear with
him in ''Superman III," but the brass had the last
laugh. When Margot flew all the way to London to
film her scenes, she found they had been cut to a dav
and a half...
Bubbly Ann Jillian was halfway through her act
in Lake Tahoc, Nev., when someone in the audience
shouted: "Lady, you're magnificent."
Ann thought she was going to have trouble with a
heckler, but the loud-mouthed fan was none other
than Sammy Davis Jr. So Ann promptly lay flat
on the stage to show the audience how knocked-out
she was by the superstar's compliment.
Sammy's praise didn't end there.
He sent champagne to Ann's dressing room and
hired her to appear with him in his own stage act in
November.
A lawyer who represented Richard Pryor for five
? Bill Sumrrti
Recording artist Bill Summers ("Jam The Box/1
"Call It What You Want," "Roots") was talking
with an interviewer about his latest album, "Seventeen,"
at an outdoor cafe along Los Angeles' famed
Sunset Strip when his mind seemed to wander.
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*Tm sorry," he said. "There's just a lot going on
now and sometimes it's hard for me to keep my mind
on things at hand."
For Summers, it is understandable. Unlike artists
with a new release, he is not worrying about the chart.
position of his new record, the next single or an upcoming
tour.
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years has filed a lible suit against the comedian for a
remark that he delivered before an audience and that
is repeated in the movie 4'Richard Pryor Live On
Sunset Strip." Michael R. Ashburne claimed in
his suit that he was damaged when Pryor said during
the filmed performance: "I used to have a black
lawyer...he took me for hook, line and sinker."
Ashburne contends that many people who saw the
film "understood" Pryor was talking about him...
NBC has handed down the word that no "Gimme
A Break" segments will air that don't feature Ncl
Carter. So, when she returns to work (hopefully
next week) from her stay in the hospital with what
has been described as "exhaustion," the producers
will rush her before the cameras to film bits and
pieces that will he; edited into the segments shot dur-?
ing her absence...\
Lou Rawls was arf sted~m Maryland's Howard
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business associate July 20. The singer, released on his
personal bond, is scheduled to go to trial in
December.
Sally Claude Carroll, 35, alleged that Rawls, 48,
struck her in a dispute that preceded his performance
in Columbia, Md. Carroll has filed a $3.6 million
civil suit in connection with the incident...
Singer Grace Jones had every intention of being
on time for a party celebrating her latest album,
"Living My Life." But it took her-a while to get
gussied up in her Village Loft.
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Summers is a man fighting for his brother's life in
a controversial murder trial that has rocked the
Midwest.
In 1969, his brother, Darnell Summers, a Vietnam
veteran, was charged with the 1968 murder of
Michigan State Police detective Robert Gosner. kill
ed by a sniper's bullet in Inkster during a rash of
racial disturbances that plagued the area. With so
many such trials going on (Black Panthers, Chicago
Seven, etc.), the case went on mostly unnoticed. And
nine months later, the charges were dismissed
"without prejudice" ? which meant the trial could
be reopened at a later date.
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Thinking the case wa:
mers left the area and
established a popular mi
Fourteen years later,
now 34, is back on trial
"It's like a nightmare
says Bill. "It's almost
when they were railroadii
know, I thought all that
but this makes me know
tell you what, it's fright<
On one side is Summ<
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With "The Mood of
Romance" as its theme,
the 25th Annual Ebony
Fashion Fair will appear
in Winston-Salem at the
M.C. Benton Conven-?
tion Center on Nov. 6 at
8 p.m. Proceeds will
benefit the Urban
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ship Program and the
Urban League Building
Fund.
Mrs. Eunice W.
Johnson, producer and
director of the show,
personally selects
fashions from the exclusive
collections of
famed designers such as
Halstdn, Stephen Burrows,
Bill Blass, Christian
Dior, Yves St.
Musical Notes
Patti An
Bubba Smith and
Deacon Jonesr- formerpro
football stars and
mainstays of the Lite
beer advertising campaign,
are the principal
players in the most am
bitious radio campaign
yet conducted for Lite by
Mingo-Jones Advertising
Inc.
Seven 60-second commercials,
five of which
feature Smith and Jones,
have been completed as
part of an expanded Lite
radio advertising cam- ,
paign. Two of the seven
commercials are full
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to Germany where he
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however, Darnell Summers,
for the same murder.
has come back to haunt us,"
a throwback to the 1960s,
ng people left and right. You
stuff ended way back then,
it's still here with us. And I
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;rs, a small battery of overttorneys,
friends and people
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Fashion.
ar Noven
Laurent, Lanvin, Chloe,
Lancetti, Andre' Laug,
Valentino, Tita Rossi
and Missoni.
More than 200
the latest accessories
will be showcased by 10
female and two male
models, part of a road
show that includes a
music director, commentot
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managers and a wardrobe
staff, and spreads
the fashion gospel coast
to coast.
Because of the unprecedented
demand for
sponsorship of the show
by charitable organizations
around the country,
Fashion Fair now
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music spots, starring
- vocalists- Patti?Austin
and Gerald Alston, lead
singer with the Manhattans.
The new Lite spots are
vignettes in which the ex_
football greats engage in
casual conversation in a
bar, at a touch football
game and in other places
where beer drinkers
gather.
Th<? firm cavc th#? r<*lnv
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ed banter creates a link
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I < average beer drinkers .
gather.
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Fryor's "Some Kind of H
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get a good look at the j
closely cropped hair, didi
her, then sped right off. F
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determined to see him rele<
tant Wayne County Pro?
state police and a questior
Summers was arrested ii
many and transported bad
of the state attorney's cla
girlfriend, Gail Simmons,
Three days after Sumn
however, Simmons refusec
police had fabricated her i
to sign it with the promise
light sentence on another <
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Fair
nber 6
tours two seasons ? the
_ East and Midwest
September through
December and the
Southwest January
?through May?appear*?
ing in more than 174
cities.
Mrs. Marion Jervay,
general chairperson of
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me ocneiii periormance,
says ticket sales are going
"exceptionally well" and
that she expects an even
larger attendance in
Winston-Salem than last '
year.
Tickets may be purchased
from any Guild
member or at the Urban i
League Office.
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ed banter creates a link
~ between Lite and the
average beer drinker,
allowing consumers to
easily relate to the
athletes, because of the
low-key conversational
style of the commercials.
The Mingo-Jones radio
commercials were writ
ten by Executive Vice
President and Creative
Director Caroline Jones
and Allan Corwin, vice
president and associate
'director. The original H
music was created by Sid
Woloshin.
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John Bianco, the
lable witness.
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to Detroit on the strength
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testimony and coerced her
that she would be given a
:harge.
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