Page 4...1he Portland ()bserver...Oetober 2,1991 Fifty Years in the Life of Muhammad Ali A New Documentary on A&E’s “ Biography" on October 8 «» «* W P R E S E N T IN G IN THE l CONCERT J U B IL E E CHOIR OF MT. OLIVET B A PT IST CHURCH OCTOBER 6 , 6 :0 0 1991 P .M . AT STONETOWER CHURCH N .E 30TH & SANDY BLVD. 55555555555555555555555 555S5S5S55555555555555555555555555555555555555S555555S5555 He is known the world over as "T h e G reatest.” But M uhammad Ali is much more than a boxer. His extraor dinary life to date is chronicled in an all-new episode o f BIOGRAPHY, O ctober 8,1991, at 8 pm and 12 am ET/ 9pm and lam PT, on the ART & E N T E R T A IN M E N T N E T W O R K (A&E). BIOGRAPHY traces M uham mad A li’s popular following and suc cess in the ring from his early years as Cassius Clay to the present. W hen he em braced the Muslim religion and re fused induction into the arm ed forces during the Vietnam W ar, it led to the loss o f his title and his prime boxing years, creating a national controversy. His full-fledged return to the top in cluded a series o f w orldw ide, spec tacles, among them the “ Thrilla in M anila,” considered the best o f his three historic bouts with Joe Frazier, Colorful, brash, outspoken, even po etic, Ali will be rem em bered as a vi brant, key player in the Am erican ex perience of the 60s and 70s. His life today is much different, but the adora tion o f people from all walks o f life remains. BIO G RA PH Y : M U H A M M A D ALI, narrated by series host Peter Graves, includes new interviews with prom i nent Americans who know the former cham pion well, including tennis star and sports historian Arthur Ashe, actor Jam es Earl Jones, ABC News sports reporter Dick Schaap, and Thomas Hauser, author o f the acclaim ed 1991 book M uhammad Ali - His Life and Tim es. Mr. A li’s childhood in L ouis Starting Business Workshop - Basics ’’Before You Must’ • Make a Decision - "Inquire about the services we offer" Cox Funeral Home, Inc. 281-4891 24 Hr. Service We are interested in your problems Volunteer. American Heart £ f t Association ville, his stunning title-w inning defeat o f Sonny Liston in 1964, the taking of his title three years later, his rocky road back to an historic upset of champion Larry Holmes, 1980 are all exam ined. O ut of the ring, BIOGRAPHY docu m ents Mr. A li’s role in the Civil Rights m ovem ent of the 1960s, a rocky per sonal life including four m arriages, and a debilitating medical condition known as Parkinson’s Syndrome. “ It is rare to produce a biography on someone not yet 50 years old, but Muhammad Ali has already lived many lives,” said Brooke Bailey Johnson, Vice President of Programming and Production, A&E. “ Ali may indeed be the greatest boxer ever, but it is the combination of superb athletic ability, rare skills o f com m unication, w illing ness to speak out on controversial is sues, and personal charisma that have made him a living legend.” BIO GRAPHY: M U H AM M AD ALI is an A&E/CEL Com m unications co-production. Charles Grinker is the Executive Producer, and Lilibet Foster is the Producer. Michael Cascio is the A&E Program Executive. A & E’s rich variety of quality en tertainm ent is available to more than 51 million viewers nationwide via 7,000 cable systems. The netw ork’s 24-hour- a-day schedule is a lively mix o f the best in comedy, drama, documentaries and the performing arts. Since A&E began in 1984, it has received more ACE Awards than any other basic cable network, including eight ACE’s for 1990 programming. In addition, the network has recieved two nominations for the Golden Ace, cable’s highest honor. Northwest Film Center Presents James Baldwin Film October 17 -19 “ Starting Business W orkshop - B asics” will be presented on Saturday, O ctober 19, from 9:00 a.m. to4:00p.m . at the Portland Com m unity College Sylvania Campus, Health Technology Building, Room D8R. In this workshop you will leant the pros and cons of owning a business, idea developm ent, determ ining m ar kets, basic pricing, set-up issues and more. This seminar is co-sponsored by the PCC Small Business Developm ent C enter and the U.S. Small Business A dm inistration. The cost is $20. To register or for additional information, please call Portland Com m unity C ol lege at 244-6111, ext. 5205. Former Black Panther Leader ‘Seizes The Time’ Again Describing himself today as a “ revolutionary humanist,’ ’ Seale indicates that he fights for human rights fo r all humanity Before you dig. please call 246-6699. Well show you where the power lies. Portland General Electric I ’ i In the late 1960s and early ’70s, the name Bobby Seale exploded on the American scene as he co-founded and chaired one of the m ost controversial activist groups in the nation, the Black Panthers Party. Today, more than 20 years later, Bobby Seale’s name will be echoed again, as he plans to run for Congress to capture the seat vacated by Rep. W il liam G ray, who until recently was the highest ranking Black legislator on Capitol Hill. Seale’s presence will also resur face in bookstores nationwide with his protest-era classic S ieze The Time, just republished by Black Classic Press. The book focuses on how Seale and fellow Black Panther Party co founder Huey Newton seized the time of the socially volatile ’60s and early ’70s, advancing Malcolm X ’s philoso phy o f “ the ballot or the bullet” and “ by any means necessary” to bring about social change for African A m eri cans. It’s perhaps through the Panther’s radical presence that the political party was significant in forcing considera tion o f human and civil rights issues. W ithout the existence of the Black Panther Party, many o f the civil rights concessions gained by the moderate civil rights groups probably w ouldn't have occurred, says Seale. “ A lot of people thought the Black Panther Party was outside of the civil rights movement. We actually were part of the overall civil rights struggle,” he stresses in a recent interview. Today, the 54-year-old Scale is seizing the time once again, hoping to step into the powerful shoes Gray leaves behind as representative of Philadel phia’s Second Congressional District. Says Scale, “ I intend to be the most profoundly accountable congressional representative ever to take national office. He plans to use the proceeds from the sale of the republished Sieze The Tim e and his 1988 cookbook, Barbe- que’n with Bobby, to help finance his grassroots campaign. Asked how he has made a living over the years, Seale says that he has been on the college lecture circuit, addressing topics ranging from Black economic power to saving the environ ment. He points out that he speaks at some 30 to 40 colleges a year. He is also a com m unity liaison at Temple U niversity’s D epartment of African and African-American Stud ies. Describing him self today as a “ revolutionary hum anist,” Seale indi cates that he fights for human rights for all humanity. Helping Blacks, he notes, aids in the liberation o f all oppressed people. W hatever title he wears, Seale is a man who some would call “ a survivor.” He was chairm an of the Black Panther Party from 1966 to 1974. D ur ing that time, he was under constant surveillance by the FBI and other law enforcem ent agencies. W hile trying to defend his rights in a Chicago court room, he was beaten, schackled and gagged. In Connecticut, he faced the electric chair in a m urder case. And in 1973, again si the odds, he ran for mayor of O akland. He alm ost won. Scale tape-recorded and wrote most of Sieze The Time w hile incarcerated in the San Francisco County Jail in 1969-1970. “ We fight racism witth solidar ity..” he says in the book. “ Those who want to obscure the struggle with eth nic differences arc the ones who arc aiding and maintaining the exploita tion of the masses o f the people.” In a new introduction to the book, Scale writes, " S ic /c The Time contin- The Portland Art Museum N orth west Film Center will screen JAM ES BALDWIN: THE PRICE OF A TICKET Thursday & Friday, O ctober 17 & 18 at 7 & 9 p.m. and Saturday, O ctober 19 at 2 p.m. in the Art M useum ’s Berg Swann Auditorium , 1219 S.W. Park Avenue. Admission $5 general; $4 museum members and seniors: $3.50 matinees h 11 SC31S Bobby Seale ues to have universal appeal as an ac count of an oppressed people’s struggle for hum an liberation.” “ The book is historically signigi- cant to Black people, and th at’s the kind of book we publish,” says Black Clas sic Press publisher, W. Paul Coates. “ T here are lessons to be learned from Sieze The Time. The book is in many ways a doctrine of the d o ’s and dont’s of advancing the interests o f oppressed people.” C oates, who once headed the Balti more chapter of the Black Panther Party, says the book was in demand when it was first published in 1970 by Random House. “ But by the m id-’70s, you couldn’t find the book.” He has repub lished 5,000 copies of the 459-pagc book in paperback and says, like the other titles Black Classic Press pub lishes, he pains to keep it in p rin t Right now, Scale is preparing to make appearances at book parties planned for W ashington, Baltim ore, Philadel phia and New York. He is also preparing for a role in filmmaker Spike Lee’s upcoming movie on M alcolm X. Seale views the republished Sieze The Time as having a message to de liver. “ T here’s a need to show young Black people, especially males, what it means to have principles and to stand up to the ills o f society,” he emphasizes. JAMES BALDW IN: THE PRICE O F A TICK ET, Karen Thorscn’s por trait of the late novelist, essayist and playwright, reveals the com plexities of the man who was once the m ost cele brated African-A m erican writer o f his time. In this docum entary, w ithout narration, Baldwin tells his own story through the use of rarely-seen archival ‘What The Butler Saw’ Opens in Salem The W illam ette University T he atre presents “ W hat the Butler Saw ” , by Joe Orton. This contem porary B rit ish farce takes sexual stereotypes and twists and m anipulates them with such glee that by the m adcap finale, you w on’t know who is who! Perform ance dates arc O ctober 4, 5, 10, 11, and 12 at 8:00 p.m. and October 6 at 2:00 p.m. Performances will be held in the W illam ette U niver sity Krcsgc Theatre. Admission is $6.00 for the general public and $4.00 for students and sen iors. For more information or reserva tions, please call the W illam ette T h e atre Box Office at 370-6221. sim ply hacked oft a chunk from a large block. i A » •* ••» •* * * ***** • • /**,-* r * - * * ♦ ♦ - a -* / M i * 4 i * footage, intimate interviews, eloquent public speeches and astounding cin em a-vérité glimpses of James Baldwin alive. The film also includes original footage of Baldw in’s own funeral serv ice, location footage of his homes on three continents, plus interviews with his friends, family and colleagues and critics, among them his brother David, writers Maya Angelou, Amiri Baraka, W illiam Styron, Ishmacl Reed and Yashar Kemal, and entertainer Bobby Short. Like Baldwin himself, the film explores what it is to be bom black, impoverished, gay and gifted in a world that has yet to understand that ‘ ‘ all men are brothers.” For more information, call the Film Center at 221-1156 PacifiCorp Assists Minority Entrepreneurs A $10,(XX) donation from the Paci fiCorp Foundation will help the O re gon Association o f Minority Entrepre neurs remodel and add to their existing headquarters building in North Port land. The donation was presented to the association this morining at its regualr monthly meeting. John Bohling, ex ecutive vice president of operation. Pacific Power, presented the check Pacific Power, adivisionofPadifiC orp, provides energy services to customers in North and Northeast Portland and serves approximately 6(X),(XX) custom ers in six W estern states. The Oregon Association of M inor ity Entrepreneurs encourages business opportunities and development among minority groups by providing techni cal, financial and other assistance “ The association has a proven track record in helping small businesses succeed and we wanted to help them in that effort,” said Bohling k ‘ 0 3