Black Movies, TV News Briefs
^The Last Ministrel” Is Fine Musical Trp«t
by JESSE H. WALKER
Special To The Post
Veteran actress Clarice Tay
lor, currently on Broadway in
“The Wiz" is a frequent visitor
to “Sesame Street," the popu
lar program for preschool
children. Her latest visit will
be broadcast May 26 on the
nation's more than 270 Public
Broadcasting stations.
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Howie Evans, sports colum
nist for the Amsterdam News
and a vet coach in the Rucker
Summer Pro League, has been
. hired by Fordham U. coach
Tom Penders as an assistant
basketball coach. Former Mor
ris High School star is Mary
land State grad and author of
"Portrait of a Man," a poem
' dedicated to Holcombe Rucker,
the former Harlem recreation
leader for whom the Rucker
Memorial Memorial—ITT Sum
mer and Winter Basketball
Leagues are named.
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Broadway stage shows, al-t
ready doing a booming busi
ness show greater promise this
month and next. Due April N.
at the Ambassador, is Richard
Wesley's new play, "The/ Migh
ty Gents." “Runaways." a two
act musical collage with a mix
ed cast that has been raved
over at the Public Theatre is
due to move to the Plymouth ,-.i
on May 6. “Ain't Misbehavin’," **
the musical tribute to Fats Wal
ler that has been a success aL
- the Manhattan Theatre Club,
moves to the Belasco on April
28. And out-of-town review^
say Della Reese in “The Last
Ministreal Show" has a fine
dramatic musical treat. It’s due
in Philly on April 11 and due
on Broadway on May 7.
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The Boys of Yesteryear Bid
dies and Midgets copped the
playoffs in the Rucker Mem
orial—111 Winter Basketball
League, just completed and
will be feted at an Awards
Luncheon to be held April 29
at the Kennedy Center on West
134th Street. Over 250 youngs
ters played on the 16 teams
that competed for 20 weeks.
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Cab Calloway is starring in
“Bubbling Brown Sugar," now
playing at the Paper Mill Play
house in Milburn, N.J.
9 9 9 0*
Cocaine use among Holly
wood stars has become so
widespread and chronic, ac
cording to an article in Medical
World News, that one UCLA
surgeon reports that he has a
half-dozen celebrity patient-,
who have burned holes in Jheir
nasal passages with heav;
doses of the drug. “These peo
ple are heavy, daily users, not
just occasional weekend snif
fere," said Dr. Vernon D. Gary
The drug, used chronically, i:
known to dissolve the nasal
septum, the cartilage between
the nostrils.
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. LeVar Burton, the young
man who played Kunta Kinte,
in the TV epic "Root*," has
been signed to portray Detroit'
Tiger star centerfield Ron Le
Flore in a two-hour CBS movie
called "One In A Million: The
Ron LeFlore Story." Moat of
the filming will be on the loca
lions where < the incredible
events of LeFlore's life have
taken place, including Michi
gan State Prison, where the
ballplayer spent 38 months be
hind bars.
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SICK LEAVE—Singer Nina
Simone collapsed in her Lon-:
don hotel room and was rushed
by ambulance to a hospital. It
was reported the 43-year-old
singer needs plenty of rest . . .
Also in London, soprano Mar
tina Arroyo, who has been
plagued by a painful back
problem for many years can
celed all engagements for the
next six weeks to undergo
spinal surgery.
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New York City’s two all
news radio stations are under
the direction of two Blacks.
Cecil Forster is the general
manager of WINS, and Adam
'Clayton Powell III is director
of news for WCBS.
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Actress Claudio McNeil,
once a nightclub singer, «SM
sing the work of Ethel Waters
in the May 9 show at Michael's
Pub.
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The American Theatre Ex
periment’s revival of “Native
Son" continues through April
12 at the Perry Street Theatre.
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This seems the year for Mar
la Gibbs of “The Jeffersqns"
to bust-out. The gal who plays
Florence the Maid had a cover
story in the April 6 issue of
Jet and has a feature story on
her career and life in the latest
edition of Now Magazine.
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“Roots” people qpntinue to
make waves. Leslie Uggams,
Louis Gossett. Jr. and Olivia
Cole are all signed for “Back
stairs at the White House." an
eight-hour mini-series due to
NBC-TV next season. It’s a
behind-the-scenes look from
Taft to Eisenhower and based
on the 1961 book of Lillian
Rogers Parks, the White House
maid.
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LZ■H&TC&al
A1 Green has sow over au
million records,earning eight
gold singles, three platinum
singles, seven gold albums
and four platinum albums.
The Belle Album marks Al’s
emergence as a producer. The
LP,which was recorded and
produced by A1 in his own
$400,000 Memphis studio, feat
ures A! backing himself on
guitar.
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