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Prince seems to have been out of the limelight
so long that Boy George has stolen some of his
thunder as the king (queen?) of sexually ambiguous
performers. But Prince is back with a
The Summer Films
'Indiana Jones': .
BY ALLEN JOHNSON
Executive Editor
This review is the second in a series highlighting summer
movies.
"Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom" provides
a visual feast for moviegoers who like plenty of
thrills and action and can tolerate the abject implausibility
of the storyline.
It also provides a feast of other sorts that may not
be so attractive, depending on what you like to eat.
The menu in one scene includes squirming baby
snakes that spill from their disemboweled mother,
dead but raw beetles that resemble clams on the halfshell
? and are slurped with stomach-turning delight
by one banquetgoer -- as well as chilled monkey
brains that look like cherry Jello and are eaten right
out of the tops of monkey heads.
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riding a rollercoaster, it seems, and he takes you right
along with him as his intrepid hero, played with
tongue-in-cheek aplomb by Harrison Ford, escapes
one life-and-death situation after another.
From the moment the credits roll, this film bursts
at the seams with action and is one of the few experiences
I've had getting exhausted while sitting
Ask Yolondo
Black man's ei
By YOLONDA GAYLES
Syndicated Columnist
Dear Yolonda: I'm a youngish, middle-aged
woman whose only problem is that I 'm tired of being
rejected by black men. Last week, when it happened
for the umpteenth time, I told off the man
u/hn a nernetrator and now I think I've lost a
lifetime friend.
I was riding on an elevator with three other
black women (all in my age bracket a black
male friend. All three of us women were nicely
dressed, and, I would say, nice looking. Then,
when the elevator stopped to let more passengers
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vengeance this summer, having released a new
single, "When Doves Cry," and a video to
match. What's more, a Prince movie is forthcoming.
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down.
Still, the exhilaration I felt when viewing its
predecessor, "Raiders of the Lost Ark," isn't there,
mainly because "Raiders" caught me by surprise
while "Indiana Jones" debuted amid hype and high
expectations.
I also partially agree with some critics who say
Spielburg packs too much action into the sequel and
may give his audience an overdose of cliffhangers.
But "Indiana Jones" is a darned good two hours
of fun and there's no way in the world anyone who
goes to see it could become bored.
Ingredients Spielburg adds to the second Indiana
Jones adventure include an Oriental sidekick for
Jones named Short Round and a female nightpjirb
singer (Kate Capshaw) who inadvertently joins Jones
on his mission to a remote Indian temple and alternately
tickles Indiana's fancy and grates his nerves.
She mainly grates my nerves,
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cult priest reaches into a man's chest and rips out his
heart.
And which points out Spielburg's biggest flaw as a
moviemaker: He tends to believe that more is better,
and, if I might borrow Jesse Jackson's oratorical
technique, that excess breeds success.
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putting his own women
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, Music, Columns
Broadway Is My Beat
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to Sears have aj
By JOEY SASSO
Syndicated Columnist
Observations in covering the Night Beat:
Michael Jackson is spending millions of dollars to
Anally hrifpendm' of,, his.JMTT The
25-year -old -framed?fecofd?ex
ecutive Frank DiLeo to replace his dad as his
manager, recently dropped nearly $500,000 in just 45
minutes in an antique store. And he's spending an
estimated $3 million to build his own animated
Disneyland at home.
"Until recently, Michael had been very frugal
about his spending," a source close to the family explains.
"Now he is flexing his muscles with his
checkbook. His father Joe says he is throwing his
money away on silly things. But if Michael wants it,
he'll get it, despite what his father says.
"It could cause problems between them in the
future if he keeps spending his money for things his
father doesn't think he needs."
Friends say Michael, who has been a millionaire
since he was 14, acts as though he only recently
discovered money. His mother used to pick out his
clothes for him at the neighborhood Sears store ? but
not anymore. On one trip to London, Michael visited
a tailor and ordered three custom-made suits at $700
each, a close friend reveals.
"Michael didn't even have a driver's license when
he plunked down $163,000 for a Rolls Royce with
special stereo equipment, just because Tatum O'Neal
told him the car would be perfect for him," the first
insider recalls....
He is the self-appointed guardian of the blues the
way they used to be -- black. And at least partly
because of him, the blues are making a comeback,
even if they "ain't black no more."
"I'm afraid it's true," laments Peter Chatman, 69,
better-known as Memphis Slim, blues missionary,
singer and pianist. "The blues ain't black no more,"
he says. "The blues have been integrated. It wouldn't 4
be such a bad thing if we got some benefit."
An act of Congress in 1977 made Memphis Slim an
official U.S. ambassador of good will, a title he
shares with only one other performer, comedian Bob
Hope. Yet, in this country Memphis Slim is almost as
obscure as Hope is famous, staying outside of the
music establishment by choice.
A tinge of bitterness pervades his story of a life
that took him from his father's saloon in Arkansas to
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on forever. Black women, regardless of their
shade or color, are as beautiful as any on the face
of this earth.
Do you understand why I said what I did?
Please comment.
Frustrated
Dear Frustrated: Sure, I understand why you
reacted as you did: You felt rejected. But, in a
strange way, you did no more than buy into the
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ring excursions
tparently ended
the sleazy dives of Beale Street in the Memphis of the
1930s to fame and Carnegie Hall and the first
Newport Jazz Festival in 1958 and, then, in the early
60s, into self^exile in Paris.
_lt was. in Paris?he savsf ^at people finally appreciatcd
the blues and Memphis Shm wtthcmf prejudice.
"Europeans havre accepted blues as a true art
form," he says. "The white people in America
wouldn't accept it.
"Now they will -- they are beginning to accept.
Once they took it away from us, they "began to accept
it. They don't want to push the blues because the
blues wasn't theirs. The blues was black. The blues
ain't black no more."...
Boxing champ Joe Frazier sends word from the
Mexico City location of "Benny and Buford," in
which he plays a cameo, that "fighting is a lot easier
in real life, where you go 15 rounds and go home. In
Friends say Michael, who has been a
millionaire since he was 14, acts as though
. he only recently discovered money. His
mother used to pick out his clothes for him
at the neighborhod Sears store ? but not
anymore.
films, you have to do the same thing over and over
again for three days."
If it hasn't proven to be a thrill to Frazier, the film
has to some 150 vacationing Shriners who were
recruited by "Benny" producers to make up the audience
for the film fight between Smokin' Joe and
Luis Avalos....
"The Bill Cosby Show" is forcing its star to cancel
a lot of nitery dates he had scheduled for the summer.
The new NBC sitcom isn't scheduled to start
shooting in New York until late July, but Bill's
already deeply involved helping create stories for the
show and has decided that many of his nightclub
dates are going to have to go....
Whatever Michael Jackson wants,. Michael
Jackson gets. The musical superstar wanted Mick
Jagger to join him on a cut for his upcoming album.
And that's exactly what he got late last week, when
the Rolling Stone traveled from Nassau to New York
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confusion.
You see, when he tells this story to his friends,
it's going to go something like, "This white
woman stepped into the elevator, and these three
black women got nervous...."
How could you have better handled thi^ situation,
and even given him something to think about
later?
The next time something like this occurs, say:
"I bet you didn't know how that kind of oven
preference made me and my two friends feel...."
Perhaps then he'll listen and understand.
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