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Is A l G reen C om ing Back? A l Green’ s latest LP “ I Get Joy,” teaming
Green w ith A l B. Sure on one cut, has drawn a great deal o f speculation as
to whether or not Green is reentering the secular music arena. M any feel that
Green longs to be back in the lim elight. Something Green knows all too
w ell. ” 1 know that there are so many people just dying to have me say I ’ m
singing my pop music again...l missed the lim elight, but I w on’ s give them
the satisfaction and they are freaking out. This album is an extension from
gospel to love and happiness to contemporary gospel and I ’m going on up.
I ’ m made spiritual and I ’ m made physical and I ’ m a fisher o f men. I ’ ve been
m inistering twelve years now and it ’ s time to take it up to a higher elevation.
People may not understand and say ‘ oh, he ain’ t no C hristian,’ --did you see
his video, people on there dancing, but see m y ideal is not to satisfy the
appetite o f the person w ho’s already saved. I ’ m reaching out.”
W h itn e y Houston T o u rin g W ith Bebe & Cece? W ell, not o ffic ia lly ,
but i f you catch Bebe & Cece, you’ re lik e ly to lic k up as niany Los Angeles
fans recently did to a real treat as W hitney Houston has been accompanying
the popular duet on many o f their stops. The stops are not publicized. In fact,
Houston w on’ t talk about appearing w ith the duet. But more often than not,
it seems, she is there perform ing back-up-up on some arrangements, w hile
sharing lead vocals w ith Bebe & Cece on others. Houston struck up a
friendship w ith the duet some tw o years ago and has been hopping onstage
w ith them ever since. Enjoying the show on opening night in Los Angeles
were M elba Moore, Ronald Winans, actress Beverly Todd, members o f the
Whisper, Klym axx and actress T isha C am pbell, who most recently starred
in “ Rooftops” and is presently in the process o f negotiating her own
recording contract. Campbell, who sued School Daze co-star and director
Spike Lee last year in a contractual dispute over the film ’ s music sound­
track, says she is taking a year and a h a lf to focus in on recording and
“ become an all-round artist.” As to the suit against Lee, she says that it has
been long-since resolved.
B id d in g W a r F or Deneice W illia m s : I f you want to weigh the impact
o f the success o f Bebe & Cece in the record industry, ju st look at the way at
least three major record companies—M C A , Columbia, and M otow n—are
bidding for distribution o f Deneice W illiam s latest gospel LP. Seems they
feel some o f the music has a great deal o f crossover potential. In other
re co rd in g news, the so un dtra ck fo r “ B a tm an —The M o v ie ” offers nine
o rig in a l songs by P rin ce -o n e featuring a duet w ith Sheena Easton. The
first Prince single is due to be released this week. The album w ill be released
by Warner Bros. Records in the third week o f June, along w ith a lim ited
edition Prince/Batman CD in a small black tin box w ith a Batman logo on
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S hort Takes: O ld stereotypes die hard as proven at the Cannes F ilm
Festival where on film title -H o w T o M ake Love T o A N egro W ith o u t
G e ttin g T ire d -cre a te d quite a stir...Harlem Suite, the Los Angeles stage
musical starring Melba Moore and Maurice Hines, was prematurely shut
down when producers failed to pay the performers...O.J. Simpson pleaded
not contest to misdemeanor w ife battering charges. Simpson is expected to
receive a fin and probation...Appollonoia has nabbed a s ta rrin g role in a
four-hour miniseries based on Joan C o llin s’ Prime Tim e Novel. C ollins w ill
star in the story about five actresses pitted against each other fo r a role in a
H ollyw ood miniseries... N ext week: fin d o ut w h a t’ s next fo r a ctor P h illip
Thom as now th a t M ia m i Vice has taken its fin a l bow.
Portland Memorial Coliseum
Wednesday
June 14
through
Sunday
June 18
Ihr Railing O f The World LargeitTenl
Back Opening DM 10:30
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For The I lil t S
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(Byline = Serra Syndication)
A tta c h in g A Price Tag T o B la ck M e m o ria b ilia : “ A lo t o f people tend
to throw away their heritage and culture w ithout really knowning i t . Things
that they tend to feel are offensive particularly when it comes to black
memorabilia - th e watermelon, the M am my, A unt Jemina, Uncle Ben,
Rastus-type o f art which was used after the c iv il war as a means o f making
fun, castrate blacks as a race, and keeping them in their place.” Today,
according to Brian Breye, an expert on the subject o f black m emorabilia,
these things are valuable. Ironically enough, most o f the collectors o f black
m em orabilia are white. “ M ost blacks throw away things that could be o f
value because they find it to be offensive.” However, collecting black
m em orabilia is becoming so popular that others are cashing in on it. Said
Breye: “ there are al lot o f fakes on the market. The Koreans and the
Japanese have gone into copying in the last ten years. They have copied a
lot o f black memorabilia and faked a lot o f it, and black people are being
duped.” Just how m uch is it w o rth ? W ell, anywhere from 50c to $10,000
or more, depending upon their rarity .condition, and its stereotypic in nature.
Am ong those things most valuable are slave docum ents-particularly those
relevant to slave auctions (where strong black males generally brought
anywere from $1100 to $2000, and a female slave w ith tw o children about
$600). W h a t should you look fo r? Products featuring black stereotypes,
dinner-bells, signs (like those once reflective o f a Jim Crow South), old
black dolls, kitchen utensils such as salt n ’ pepper shakers w ith blacks, old
records, figurines, leaflets, toys, books-anything documenting that period
or the stereotyping o f blacks, their advancements, and/or trials and tribula-
tio n s -a ll that is relative to black history. I f you feel you have som ething
o f value and d on ’ t know w ha t to do, contract an African-Am erican
museum in your area or address your inquiry to Brian Breye, c/o Museum
in Black, 4327 Degnan Boulevard, Los Angeles, C alifornia 90008.
D o n 't C ou nt J im B ro w n O u t: Actor and former all-pro running back
Jim B row n’ s Los Angeles-based production company. Ocean Productions,
and Sum mit! International Pictures have inked a six-picture co-production
deal fo r an undisclosed sum. The film s, which w ill be o f the action-
adventure genre, w ill be distributed abroad and on videocassette here in the
U .S. The deal also calls for tw o more film s to be produced this year and three
to b e sh o tin 1990. Brown, who is in the midst o f “ trying to build up its track
re co rd " says he is concentrating on action-adventure film s as they arc
“ most wanted in the viable European market.” SaidBrown: “ thedecision
to make only action-adventure film s was a business decision rather than an
artistic decision. But in order to make art, you have to have good business. ’ ’
O p ra h Shares H e r Good F ortu ne : Oprah W infrey is the latest black
superstar to share in keeping the dream o f black colleges alive w ith her g ift
o f $1 m illio n to Morehouse College in Atlanta. The money w ill go to
establish the Oprah W infrey Endowment Scholarship Fund. W infrey, who
recently received an honorary doctorate from the college, says she selected
Morehouse because o f how warm ly she was treated when she was there on
an earlier visit.
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D ick G riffe y teams w ith CBS Records: Solar Records chief Dick
G riffe y has signed a major agreement w ith CBS Records. However, at our
presstime, details were sketchy, so we w ill have them for you when they
become available. In S hort: D id you know that while a black man patented
the first mechanical traffic signal back in 1923, virtually no black-owned
firm s arc in the business o f repairing th e m -a business that is, in many cases,
worth m illions annually. And one for which city officials most often seek
m inority contractors... N ext week: A look at one o f the n a tio n ’ s most
p ow e rfu l black women in broadcasting.
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