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V Page 6B - THE CHARLOTTE POST - Thursday, January 28, 1988 Continued From p. IB) nam-545,000 by the time Nixon began "winding down the war" In 1969. It ofBcIaJly ended in 1975. Some 58,000 American person nel had been killed and 304,000 wounded In the war. About half of these were blacks. More than 2,500 were women. For network news, the war was show business for more than a decade. While "Coming Home" set the stage for the war's Hollywood de but, it was Francis Ford Coppo la's "Apocalypse Now" that made it a show business contender the same year. Although preceded by "the Deer Hunter," Copp^a's film was the first rezd epic a^ut Vietnam. It had Brando, and a cast of thousands, against a backdrop of spectacular combat effects. It racked up mllllons> Naturally, black actors were not given promlnept roles in any of the blockbus'ter films. It fell to PBS television to enlight en the country about the role of black soldiers. "Bloods: An Oral History of the Vietnam W'ar" do cumented the suffering of black servicemen. It shocked most Americans to learn that black soldiers had done much of the fighting and dying in the war. And "Bloods" was filmed with actual black veterans-not a cast of Holl3Twood actors. Commercial television's re- LOW PRICES Scene From 'Tour Of Duty*' cently ventured into Vietnam with "Tour of Duty," an hour- long CBS series that trys to de pict the painful war as it was. To its credit, the network agreed with producers to feature black actors in ongoing, sympathetic roles. However, 'Tour of Duty" is on opposite NBC's pufiball sit com 'The Cosby Show." That might affect whether the combat drama becomes a hit or miss. Meantime, Hollywood has struck back with a monster hit of its own. "Good Morning Viet nam" is currently burning up the Big Screen and racking up Big Bucks. The film, b^ed on the es capades of a real IXJ during the war, seems headed for a sure Os car nomination. 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