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Black Movies, TV News Briefs Bffly Dee Williams To Start In 2-Hour TV Special hv Tmba 14 H/a1LA. . i o • --— - I Special to the Post With the gift by The New York Bank For Savings of the five-story commercial Kenwood Building to the Studio Museum in Harlem, things are already looking up on West 125th Street. Mary Schmidt Campbell, director of the museum, has revealed an *800,000 HUD loan has been approved to rehabilitate the building. And this week Con Edison hosted a reception for the museum, to help it launch a fund-raising drive. Bank Senior Vice President David Means, a Harlem native, noted at the deed-signing ceremony that the bank's gift represented “a meaningful cultural event that will bring the street back,” meaning declining West 125th Street. Clarence Muse, the venerable actor who died in a California hospital just one day short of his 90th birth day, can be currently seen in his last film, “The Black Stallion” which was shown at the New York Film Festival and has now opened publicly. Muse, who was a graduate lawyer, a songwriter (“When It’s Sleepy Time Down South”), and a native of Baltimore, Md., appeared in “Hearts of Dixie,” the second talking movie ever made, and in 218 other movies over 50 years. He last was in NYC in 1976 when he was making a per sonai apix arance lor l^ar Wash,” a Universal film. ‘‘321 Contact," the science magazine published by Children's Television Workshop has in its November edition a feature on TV science shows and in terviews with real scientists on whether kids should believe or not believe what they see on the screen in their favorite shows. One of the worst things on science fic tion shows on TV says a famous science writer is “not only don’t they show people the right way things work; sometimes they teach things that just aren’t true.” James Baldwin, who was a boy preacher at 14, return ed to the pulpit at 55 last week in Washington, D. C. when he was the guest speaker at the 11 a.m. Sun day service at the Peoples Congregational United Church of Christ. Church was packed inside and out side. Powell Lindsay, who once ran the Negro Drama Group out of NYC back in the 40 s and 50’» was back in town for a brief visit. He’s now a resi dent of Ann Arbor, Mich, where he has been running the Suitcase Theatre, a group of high school students who nave toured Europe for the past nine years. The Suit case Theatre story “Of a Dream Long Deferred" was inspired by Langston Hughes who conceived auuuicr ouucase i neaire with Powell Lindsay in 1937 in Harlem. NBC-TV has a miniseries coming up later this season, “The Sophisticated Gent” that is winding up shooting this week in Los Angeles. With a script by Melvin Van Peebles from John A. Williams’ novel, “The Junior Bachelor Society," the film stars Albert Hall, Paul Winfield, Ron O’Neal, Raymond St. Jacques, Rosalyn Cash, Ja’net DuBois and Dick Anthony Williams. On Sunday, Dec. 16, Billy Dee Williams will be seen starred with Maria Schell in “Christmas Lilies of the Field,” a two-hour TV se quel to the 1963 feature film that won Sidney Poirier his Oscar. Jane White, daughter of the late NAACP exec Walter White and a Broadway and TV actress in her own right, opens in San Francisco on I •! • ■ tt Billy Dee Williams ....Famed actor Nov. 9 in a premiere of an autobiographical musical, “Jane White, Who?” She co-authored with Joe Masteroff. Maya Angelou's “And Still 1 Rise, "with music by Lalo Schifrin, will be presented by Rosetta LeNoire’s AMAS Repertory Theatre, Thursday, Satur day and Sunday through Nov. 4. The Fellas hold their An nual Tennis and Disco Party on Saturday, Nov. 3, at the Tiger Racquet club in Secaucus, New Jersey and it is a benefit for their scholar ship Fund. "Roots,” will be repeated beginning Nov. 5 on the ABC-Network in nine 90-minute episodes on the “4:30 Movie” time spot. Ben Vereen will introduce each episode. Something new is being added to "The Jeffersons" on CBS-TV with son Lionel (played by Michael Evans) and daughter-in-law Jenny (Berlinda Tolbert) presen ting George (Sherman Hemsley) with his first grandchild. Director Michael Schultz has been named by the Na tional Endowment for the Arts to the advisory commit tee of filmmakers and in dustry representatives to assist promoting the ex hibiting of short films from independent producers ii commercial theatres. In its September issue, thi Black Theatre Allianci Newsletter presented photo and short biogs of al members of its newly expanded board of director for the term 1979-81. T( show the growth of BTA, ii 1969 there were sevei members, all located ir NYC. Today there are ovei i0 theatre and dance com panies around the country and two theatre groups fron Canada who complete th« membership. In Pans, the “Theatre Noir," a black cultura ensemble began activities ix the Menilmontant quarter. Franee’s first such center foi the expression of Black culture, according to Ben jamin Jules-Rosette. a West Indian actor who has been living and working in Franee for many years. In Harlem, the Martin Luther King, Jr. Theatre is presenting the Creative Dance Theatre and Mel Frasier Production and Associates in a fashion show and disco cocktail sip on Nov. 29 at the new Cotton Club on West 125th Street. Proceeds go to the MLK Theatre Youth Scholarship Fund. Board members in clude Billy Reed, Grace Killens, Melvin Frasier, Rasco Smith, Pat Layne, Leola Tucker, Lateefah Jab baar, Jean Booker and Harold Huntley. j^uji armns near l>ikki Giovanni By Eileen Hanson Special To The Post “Books are the most impor tant invention of mankind,’’ according to poet Nikki Giovanni, speaking in Char lotte Oct. 19 to the N.C. Librarian’s Association. “You can take the book with you anywhere, anytime. You don’t need a truck to haul it or electricity to plug it in.’’ But for Ms. Giovanni, books are also tools of social change, and she challenged her audience of 800 school city librarians to be more con cerned about the child who reads the books, than the cleanliness of the books them selves. “A child can’t learn if her eyes and teeth hurt,” she said, advocating a national health care plan. "Schools are closing for lack of money, children are being turned away, yet we pay out money every day for bombs,” she continued. Teachers should fight for themselves too. “It’s wrong to get a 6 per cent raise when inflation is 13.5 per cent. Teachers aren’t valued enough in our society.” Ms. Giovanni, 36,is a native of Knoxville, Tenn., a graduate of Fisk University, and now lives in Ohio with her 10-year old son, Tommy. She remembered her own childhood, growing up in a segregated school that no longer exists. “It was segregated and that was wrong. But it was small and people cared about you,” she said, and then added that it is impossible to teach more than 15 children at a time. “Minority children are a very previous resource and we are not going to get damaged by integration.” said Giovanni. The battle for lite racy is vital because “when people can no longer be articu late, they become violent. When people don’t talk they POET NIKKI GIOVANNI ....Challenges audience here kill each other. In the last 10 years Giovanni has published 13 books of poetry, mostly about being a black woman in the United States and about children. She serves on the President's Commission for the International Year of the Child, and was chosen one of the top 10 American women of influence. Although she is a slight and unassuming person, her books have been the subject of con troversy for their boldness. "There are people who want to ban my books, to roll the clock back, she said. "We are not afraid of books. Books can’t hurt people.’’ ' ' Woodlawn Road Will Be Closed i ne division oi Highways of the North Carolina Department of Transporta tion INCDOT) will close 1-77 southbound lane exit ramp leading to Wood lawn Road (US-521) in Charlotte to through traffic for approx imately five days according to Division Engineer David B. Roberta. The road, located near the intersection of NC-49 and 1-77, will be closed from Oc tober 22 to October 26. The temporary closing will allow NCDOT maintenance crews to repair the pavement and the curb and gutter on the ramp. Traffic will be detoured to NC-49 then to US-521. I Wl A Has Its First Full-Time PR Director Charlotte's YWCA has its first full-time Public Rela tions Director. She’s Molen Clemmer Roberta, a former vice presi dent and director of Marketing and Communica tions with Diener and Associates, Inc. Research Triangle Park, N. C. and has served as coordinator of the student publications at Lock Haven State College in Pennsylvania. Mrs. Roberts, 34, cur ' rently serves as a reporter for the newsletter of the Greater Carolines Chapter of the Red Cross; she is a member of Women in Communica tions, the Charlotte Public Relations Society and the American Association of University Women. After earning a B.A. in history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Mrs. Roberts con tinued her studies and received an M.A. degree in Higher Education also from UNC-CH. She additionally was taught piano and music composition at the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore, Maryland.
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