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s- > \»r vsn Page 4 The Portland Observer March 20, 1991 »\ » » » » r t » r w i Portland Observer ENTERTAINMENT The Lenell Geter Story From left, Dorian Harewood and Debbi Morgan star in "Guilty of Innocence: The Lenell Geter Stroy," airing on The Family Channel. Imprisoned for a crime he didn’t commit. "Guilty o f Innocence: The Lenell Geter Story” explores the story of 24-year-old Lenell Geter, who was arrested for a Texas food franchise robbery he didn’t com m it This compelling drama premieres on The Family Channel April 9 at 8 p.m. Easiem/Pacific. “Guilty o f Innocence: The Lenell Geter Story” depicts an unprecedented miscarriage of American justice, raising serious questions about the judicial system, its investigatory process and how it can nearly destory an innocent “ victim.” Dodrian Harewood stars as Lenell Geter, Emmy Award nominee Dabney Coleman as defense attorney Ed Sigel, Debbi Morgan as Geter’s fiance Marica Hickson and Emmy Award nominee Paul Winfield as NAACP attorney George Hairston. “ Guilty o f Innocence” is an embassy Communications production distributed by Columbia Pictures Intematonal Televison. Sheri Singer, executive producer, and Fern Field, producer, are both Emmy Award winners. Richard T. Heffron directs from a script by Harold Gast. 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As master of ceremonies Paul Linnman said, still ing the crowd after an extended stand ing ovation, ‘Arc they hot or wot?” ’ Jonathan Nicholas, Oregonian “ They show all the insouciance, precision and joie dc vivre of tradi tional hoofers such as the Copasctics who have been honing their skills for 60 years...These kids are artists...they take the audience with them into a “ The program’s elite Jefferson Dancers draw full houses and standing ovations, and their alumi dance in New York and Los Angeles, as well as in Switzerland, France and Japan.” Julie Sterling, Northwest Magazine, Orego nian “POWERFUL, HONEST AND REAL! Sissy Spacek is excellent. Whoopi Goldberg plays her part with strength and quiet dignity. A fine film !’ -Joel S«|,l. GOOD MOUSING AMERICA “TWO THUMBS UP!” —SISfcH A U t .RT S I S 1 S 1» \ t K K » U II t l tl P I I. t) l l> K K H G The Long Walk Home PC o. 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For this w riter, a Jefferson [Dancers] concert is an ex hilarating experience, offering the ca tharsis one seeks and too seldom finds when going to the theatre.” Martha Ullman West, Dance Critic “ The Jefferson Dancers perform ance 1 saw must stand out as a real contribution to your city...[it] was re markable both for its own sake as a dance program and as a contribution to the Portland community.” Gary Rupert, Greater Victoria Schools “POWERFUL AND COMPELLING. % 503-284-4828 April 30. May 1-5.1991 8:00 PM Intermediate Theatre. Portland Center for the Performing Arts Here’s What They Are Saying A bout The Jefferson Dancers % <2 For nearly 300 students, Jefferson’s dance Program pro vides an oportunity to learn, to achieve, to explore, to per form. Since 1974, when it became a magnet program open to students throughout the city, its growth and development have established the Jefferson program as one of the nation’s most distinguished. When Jefferson dancers appear in concert, the public has the chance to see what can happen when students study with trained professionals, work with famous guest artists, and begin their education in the art form as early as the sixth grade in this public school’s program. This nationally recognized student company will have a busy spring with appearances in Salem, Vancouver and Clat skanie in addition to an ambitious list of lecture demonstra tions at schools in the Portland metropolitan area. Eugene appearances are set for April 12-13 at the Hull Center, Soreng Theatre. The company’s home season runs April 30-May 5 at the Intermediate Theatre in the Portland Center for the Performing Arts. Jefferson’s most advanced dance students make up the company. For most of them, their appearance with the com pany highlight long hours of practice and classroom study. They attend clases until 5 p.m. each day, including dance technique classes taught by the Jefferson Dance Department staff, a two -hour rehearsal, and academic classes in which they must maintain strong grade point averages. Diversity and sophistication are the hallmarks of Jeffer son’s remarkable dance program. Students are enrolled in beginning through advanced level classes in tap, ballet, mod em, and jazz. This versatility is apparent in the company’s program which featues works by nationally and internation ally acclaimed choreographers who have come to the Port land high school to work with dance students. Students study in four full equipped studios with profes sionally trained teachers, many of whom are working chore ographers and performers. Julanc Stites, one such staff member, has choreographed for the company, and several of her works, Looking Glass, Zip, and Whatever It Takes are featured this year. Joe Wyatt and Elena Carter, both former principals with the Dance Theatre of Harlem and The Pacific Ballet Theatre, teach at Jefferson. Unlike most dance companies, The Jefferson Dancers perform works in all dance styles. This year’s repertoire is a multi-cultural blend of choregraphic gems including an energetic African number by Portland’s Bruce Smith and a new tap work, choreographed especially for the company by Brenda Bufalino. Their end-of-the-year concerts give audiences the chance to sec the result of an educational success story. Oregon’s largest festival of arts, Artquake, has published the prospec tus for Artists’ Marketplace at the 15th annual event, scheduled for Aug. 31- Sept. 2 in downtown Portland. Located at the heart of Artquake on Southwest Broadway, Artists’ Mar ketplace is a juried arts and crafts street gallery. Jurors for 1991 are Joe Cantrell, photographer and instructor at the Oregon School of Arts & Crafts and Pacific Northwest College of Art; John Forsgen, architectural designer, co-founder and former director of Art Aids and a glass and mixed media artist; Carolynn Lee, exhibits director and gallery curator of the Hoffman Gallery at the Oregon School of Arts & Crafts; Joanne Mulcahey, coordinator of the Oregon Folk Arts and Folklife Program and adjunct faculty member of Lewis and Clark College, and Ben nett Welsh, ceramist. Application for the Marketplace may be made in numerous media, including basketry, ceramics, fibers, glass, jewelry, paper, leather, metal, mixed media, wood, photography, painting, graphics, printmaking and musical instruments. Entry forms, which include stan dards and instructions, may be ob tained by sending a self-addressed, stamped envelope to Artists’ Market place, Artquake, P.O. box 9100, Port land, OR 97207-8181. For further information, call Artquake at (503) 227-2787. The annual Labor Day weekend arts event will celebrate its 15th anni versary with this year’s festival of vis ual, performing and children’s arts. M u s ic & Jefferson Dancers Concerts; Eugene/ Portland Performance Set A rtquake 91 Invites A rtists To A pply For Festival Marketplace 15% to 50% OFF 100% Human Hair wigs! 100% Human Hair for Braiding and Weaving Naomi Sims Wigs Sales items subject to stock on hand. No Reorders 281-6525 7th & Fremont ( 707 N.E. Fremont ) BEAUTICIAN 4 STUDENT DISCOUNTS 100% HUMAN HAIR FOR BRAIDING » W EAVING jzzic and H arriet...th e [ Cleavers...the Jeffersons...thc Brady Bunch... These icons of the American fam ily past have been supplanted in most cases by single-parent homes, latch key children, family meals at micro- wave-speed, a 40-perccnt teenage pregnancy rate.stepfamilies, headlined custody battles... OPB will air National Public Ra dio’s full week of reports April 1-7 on how American family life has under gone dramatic changes in recent years, and how those changes are affecting young people and society’s future, for good or ill. “ Class of 2000: Family Stories” will air daily on MORNING EDITION, ALL THINGS CONSID ERED, AND WEEKEND EDITION on the statewide OPB Radio Network. ThesericscloscsSunday, April 7, with a two-hour national call-in show with NPR Special Correspondent Susan Stambcrg and a panel of youths and adult specialists discussing issues raised by the scries. The April reports on youth and family will be complemented simi larly by local progamming produced by OPB as well as many public radio stations in other regions of the coun try. “ We wanted to continue our fo cus on kids, * * explains Executive Pro ducer Benjamin A. Davis. “ They arc the ‘Class of 2000,’ the adults who will lead us into the next century. 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