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The Duke Report: “Get Shorty »,
ABO UT TOW N
Things Ain’ t What They Used To Be 79
Chih Palmer (John Travlota, left) and Karen (Rene Russo, center) team up to try and persuade
Karens ex-husband Martin Weir (Danny DeVito, right) to star in their movie, in MGM’s contemporary
| comedy Get Shorty.
photQ Cnd/t:
John Travolta redeems his star
I status as C h ili Palmer, the gentle
men gangster in “ Get Shorty” .
| Shorty has to be Danny DeVito as
Martin Weir who Palmer and his
I ex-wife Karen (Rene Russo) tries
[ to persuade Weir to star in their
| movie.
Palmer ends up in Hollywood
I chasing a loan and as a favor to a
casino owner he tracks down B
movie producer Harry Zim m (Gene
Hackman) who introduces him to
the movie business. Palmer is a
movie buff who is tired o f the loan
shark business and his new supervi
sor in crime Ray “ Bones” Barboni
(Dennis Farina).
Zimm is dirty and is avoiding
drug dealer/Limo owner Bo Catlett
(Delroy Lindo) who is still waiting
for his name to roll in any movie’s
credits. Zim m is sitting on a fantas
tic script and Palmer becomes his j
partner.
"Get Shorty” has a few dips I
and dives and you w ill be surprised
at which script gets produced. This
is a likable film but I wonder why
the two characters o f color had to
die. For Travolta "Get Shorty” dusts
o ff his acting reputation and the
public is introduced to a gangster,
we all want to live next door to.
matic presentations by this passion
ate cast.
Leading actor/vocalist D avid
Sea’s velvety, charismatic voice and
character projection left the audi
ence spellbound and begging for
more. His delivery cast a striking
resemblance o f Isas H aynes and his
tall torso that o f a model. H is leading
lady, C h e ry l Denise H unter, was
equally as strong, wearing an attrac
tive, interesting wardrobe. She en
dured the challenge o f line delivery
with a miserable mike.
Unm istake n ly, “ T h in g s A in 't
What T h e y Used T o B e ” w ill
leave Portlan d ta lk in g around
about town.
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Wailing To Exhale
riage that grows ever stronger.
Asante’ began when W il and
Pharoah first hooked up and were on
the lookout for other singers to fill in
the sound oftheir fledgling group. It
was at a Bronx studio that the duo ran
into Warren and Andre who were
each doing separate nrojects. “The
four o f us just started vib in ’, singin’
andjammin' together,” says Warren,
“and we enjoyed it so much we fig
ured we could just take to another
level.”
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the leader o f the defense team,
Johnnie Cochran Jr. raises contro
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tion’s side o f the story. Is the D N A
evidence reliable? Did detectives
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and Mrs. Dorsey M cCullough. Rev.
and M rs. Robert Kem p were a few
o f the ministers whose ticket sales
endorsement gave opportunity for
success.
Award winning Delilah Rashell,
writer-producer-director o f her third
play, addressed the senseless disre
gard for the family and disregard for
women as our young men rape us
publicly with the distorted lyrical
content o f some o f today’s music.
The show format educated and enter
tained and offered God as the ulti
mate solution. A dazzling billboard
o f stars had Portlanders’ standing to
their feet and keeping beat to the
sizzling musical sounds and the dra-
sisters T riffa n y and Ashley. Rev.
A .sa n te 9
Asyou listen,yourm inddrifts...
...to summer nights, to distant
lovers, dreams lost and found, slow
dancin' and good good lovin'.
Yes, the mood is old school ‘ 70s
but the setting is strictly ‘90s. One
look and half-a-listen tells you
straight-up that this team is working
o ff a whole other level than the racks
o f male group clones with their
Xeroxed vocal yodels.
From the under-your-skin hook
o f “ Look What Y o u ’ve Done,” the
hypnotic opening track, to a righ
teous, soul-filled a cappella workout
on The Impressions’ “ People Get
origin), the tender “A ll About You",
Ready,” there’s no doubt about it: the
or the uplifting anthem, “Anything Is
four talented gentlemen who com
Possible” (which features additional
prise Asante deliver the goods. Few
vocals by Tawatha Agee, formerly o f
groups would attempt to cover The
the group Mtume, and keyboard work
Isley Brothers, but Asante’s sensual
by Bernard Wright.)
reading o f the 70s classic, “ D on’t
Asante’ (Swahili for “thinkyou” )
Say Goodnight” not only does ju s
consists o f Pharoah Oyewole', War
tice to the original, material, Asante’
ren Robinson, Andre Zachery and
compete with the masters. Listen to
W il Townsend. They’ve been togeth
the slammin' jam, “ Dopest Ethiopi
er as a group since 1991, when a
an" (an Asante’ - penned props-giv-
chance meeting at a New Yo rk re
ing shout out to sisters o f African
cording studio led to a musical mar
No tape recorders, no videos, no
camera’s, “Things A in ’t What They
Used To Be,” premiered Thursday a,
the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall.
The stage play that has Am eri
ca talking, played to a capacity
house. With a look similar to that o f
the Apollo in New Yo rk, Portland
supported the event with a maximum
black audience.
Theatre-goers, experiencing the
first indication ofwinter, were dressed
in ambience, style and warmth - glam
our at it’s best. Basic black accented
with gold and pearls, with splashes o f
red, continues to be the look for fall/
winter 1995. Seen were Laverne
and K im Brooks, C a lv in Allm on,
Keba and son, AntoineStoudanieir,
BenitaSeamster, N a’im and Hakim
Hasson, to name a few.
The Albina Ministerial Alliance
came out in full force, holding court
in preferred select seating. Rev.
Jam es M artin and wife, Lynette.
were there in part to celebrate daugh-
ter’s T a r a 's I3thbirthdayalongwith |
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Arista Records Releases “ Wait
ing To Exhale soundtrack album to
be in stores on November 14. The
record features an unprecedented
powerhouse lineup o f music’s hot-
test“divas” . Whitney Houston (who
also stars in the film), Toni Braxton,
Aretha Franklin, Mary J. Blige, T L C ,
Brandy, Chaka Khan, Patti LaBelle
Faith Evans, SW V, CeCe Winans
Shanna. For Real, Chante Moore
and Sonja Marie. The album was
written and produced by Kenny
Babyface” Edmonds, who wrote
14 new songs plus the film ’s score.
The first single w ill be by
Whitney Houston. The title is “ E x
hale (Shoop, Shoop),” and it’s a
warm, lifting ballad that summa
rizes the overall theme o f the film
and its soundtrack.
On assembling this all-star fe
male cast for the soundtrack,
Edmonds explained. “The film was
written, from a female perspective,
so it felt quite natural to have all the
music written for and performed by
women.
What makes the soundtrack
unique, though, is the diversity of
female artists from Whitney Hous
ton, Chaka Khan and Toni Braxton
to Brandy, T L C and SW V . This is
one o f those once-in-a-lifetime op
portunities that you dream about as
a songwriter/producer.
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