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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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“ For once these 20 dancers had
the room to move, to leap their way
across the stage, to do spectacular lifts
and to give vent to the cxubrance of
youth. ...electrifying, dynamic...” Ore­
gonian
“ The highlight of the evening’s
entertainment was the performance by
the Jefferson Dancers. The troupe took
full advantage of the opportunity to in­
troduce many in the audience to the
fact that there is in Portland a high
school with a performing arts program
as good as any in the nation. 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
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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
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world of illusion where movement is
the vocalbulary that persuades us to
suspend our disbelief. 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.
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Here’s What They Are Saying A bout
The Jefferson Dancers
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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.
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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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