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By JOEY SASSO
Syndicated Columnist
Observations in Covering the Night Beat.
Watch out, Michael Jackson - experts claim sexy rock'n'roller
Prince is about to be crowned the new king of American pop music.
Depite Michael's sensational Victory tour, Prince, 24, is now the
hottest-selling recording artist in the U.S., says Lynne Jones of
WKTU, one of the top pop stations in New York City. "I think
Prince will be bigger than Michael Jackson," she told me. Jones
reports that the most-requested song at the station is Prince's single
from his "Purple Rain" album, "When Doves Cry."
"He's pop, he's crossover, so everybody's buying his record. His
appeal is wide because he's different, a little freaky. He's
dynamite," Jones says. "We get more calls for that than any of the
Jackson cuts ? it's phenomenal."
Spotlight
? Temptations: Still going
What makes a legend? In the case of the legen- "Treat Her Lik<
- dary Temptations, the main ingredient is 14 now single, the smoot
classic number one pop and R&B smashes like You)", and the r
"My Girl," "The Way You Do The Things You In the end, "Tru
Do," "Psychedelic Shack," "Just My Imagina- the best Tempata
tion," "Papa Was A Rolling Stone," and "Stan- The story of tiding
on the Top," among others, and a vocal and in the annals of r
choreography style that has become the standard dating back to thi
for the modern song and dance act. Kendricks and th<
But what makes a legend most is resilience. Otis Williams,
"Truly For You," the Temptations' newest Bryant in Detroil
album, pfoduced by-Albm~f*b4tttp~MeKay and ? ?tbat-weuW event
Ralph Randolph Johnson, marks another notch in The group has sir
the career of a group that has helped shape pop some of the worl
music as the world now knows it. When Bryant k
From the very beginning - the funkified drive stepped in and s<
of side one's "Running," the project is a The Things You
showcase of fine songs, sweet harmonies and of Motown smasl
heart-wrenching lead vocals. The Temptations ^ Dennis Edwarc
themselves contributed three of the songs here ? Pie
Musical Notes
Prince helps Collins
Marvs Collins Westside Preparatory School has | major source ol
announced me creation of an endowment fund fo monies raised on
found a hew Teacher-Training Institute. The pur- Tour,
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teaching methods, which have been featured on "For the first
"60 Minutes," the "Phil Donahue Show," and on ^.oivino societ\
a TV special called "The Marva Collins Story" f , ,
(with Cicely Tyson), throughout the country. to^eac
Honorary Chairman and co-founder of the en- lifetime.
dowment fund is rock star Prince. Prince contributed
initial funding for the Westside On the tour, a
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Endowment Fund. His managers and members of a minimum pric
his business team have augmented that sum. But a sales of Jtljcse tic!
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"Purple Rain," the quickest album from Warner Bros. Records
ever to go platinum, is getting an added sales boost because it's also
the soundtrack to the movie of the same name in which Prince
stars....
Gender-bender singer Grace Jones ? who stars in the movie
44Conan the Destroyer" ~ says she likes bringing out the evil in
people. "People want permission to be bad," explains the 6-foottall
Grace. "When I perform, it's as though they were going to a
brothel. They can wear the most outrageous things and know they
won't be out of place." Indeed, when Grace is on stage, she often
appears as a villainess - complete with bullwhip. And in her new
movie she plays opposite muscleman Arnold Schwarzenegger as
Zula - a strapping female warrior who is deadly with a spear.
Says Grace about her movie role: "Being bad is against the law
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a good person. Just to be a nice guy leaves little room for excitment.
I like conflict and passionate changes. That's why men have
mistresses. I don't mind people being scared of me. But I don't feel
an obligation to fulfill their fantasies. So people are often disappointed
because what I do onstage is not necessarily the way 1 am,"
she explains.
Jones says that despite her penchant for evil characters, she likes
to create a balance for people between the horrific and the
humorous. "I also like giving people more of a sense of humor.
People tend to take things so seriously."...
Actor Billy Dee Williams had serious doubts about starring in
"Dynasty" -- but his mind was finally made up for him by his
11-year-old daughter, Hanako. "She talked me into it," said
Williams. "She loves the show." Williams will make his debut as a
Please see page B10
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icr Steve Fargnoli, sistently turned kids formerly labeled truant,
-Training Institute retardees and behavior problems into scholars, a
F the Purple Rain system that concentrates on making children
ute will be the gift believe in themselves and in hard work,
immunity." In 1974, Marva Collins founded the Westside
avallo, Ruffalo & Preparatory Institute with $5,000 from her
porters of Collins* Chicago Teacher Pension Fund. The school
>n his last tour, in started with 18 students in two rooms of Collins'
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for Westsidc cepted a grant of goverment funds, it has over 200
ne, he sat in on a students from more than half a dozen states,
nd saw first hand The purpose of the Teacher-Training Institute
inique. Prince saw will be to spread the Collins technique to tens of
ition that has con- Please see page B10 ?