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ENTERTAINMENT
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"Spies Above": Discovery Channel has
been granted exclusive access to film the
behind-the-scenes world o f counter
intelligence for the first documentary to
expose the heretofore undisclosed genesis
and proliferation o f space-based espionage.
Narrated by Gillian Anderson, co-star o f
Fox's The X-Files, Spies Above makes its
world television premiere on Monday, March
11. from 10:00-11:00 PM (ET/PT) and
2:00-3:00 AM (ET/PT). This program
examines how and why surveillance
satellites were developed and used by the
United States and the former Soviet Union,
and how space-based intelligence gathering
changed the course o f history. Featuring a
host o f firsts, the program takes viewers to
places where film cameras have seldom, if
ever, been allowed. Pictured: Gillian
Anderson, narrator.
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Shawn Wayans (1) and Marlon Wayans (r) from “Don “t Be A Menace
to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood".
Photo by: George Lange
“Don’t be a Menace to South Cen
ter While Drinking Your Juice in the
Hood’’ is the latest creative project
from the talented and prol ific Wayans
family. This film is an irreverent,
comic spoof that parodies the Hood
movies produced in the last five years.
“ Don’t be a Menace...’’chronicles
the exploits o f a young Black man,
Ashtray (Shawn W ayans) whose
mother returns him to the hood to
learn and live with his father. As
Ashtray’s mother drops him off to
kick-it with his immature father she
leaves him with, “You know there
are no positive Black women in these
hood movies”. And she is not kid
ding!
Ashtray hooks up with his homie
Loc Dog (Marlon Wayans), Craxy
Legs (Suli McCullough) and Preach
(Chris Spencer). Ashtray meets Dash iki
Photo By: M ich ael Lavlne/Fox.
(Tracy Cherelle) who has a baby by
every man in the neighborhood and
soon becomes impregnate by Ashtray
in a funny and crude love scene.
Preach represents every character
who talks black and sleeps white. He
bypasses a beautiful Black woman to
fall for an example o f jungle fever
which is not very pretty. Ashtray is
arrested for being Black on a Friday
night and is plated in a cell with a
Malcolm, King, Farrakhan carica
ture and that scene is very' funny.
“Don’t be a Menace...” pokes fun
at the image o f the Black urban male
who wears his pants sagging a little
too low, Black males who constantly
drink 40 ounces o f beer with Loc
Dog as the classic example o f a gun-
toting, beeper wearing, menace to
society.
At times the movie’s humor is
cornballish, callous and insulting to
Black women. However, the Waynes
Brothers are a talented and strong
creative family. This is not their best
work. And “Don’t be a Menace...” is
not their worst. (Lanita Duke is Pro-
ducer/Owner o f Grassroot News, a
video Production company)
Rosalyn McMillan “Knowing”
She’d read an article in the news
paper during Black History Month
about how Black women should treat
their men. We should treat them with
the utmost respect, love, kindness,
and recognition...We should encour
age them to seek brighter horizons
beyond merely being athletes, to
strive to become scientists, attorneys,
and congressmen, the article had told
her. But what o f our hopes and
dreams?, Ginger wondered. Were
they insignificant? Who would help
the women?...
At the center o f Knowing stands
Ginger Montgomery, 36, an attrac
tive and intelligent woman suffocat
ed by material trappings and self
doubt. On the surface, Ginger seems
to have it all: a comfortable home in
the Detroit suburbs, a lucrative fac
tory job at Champion Motors, four
beautiful children, and plenty o f pas
sion with Jackson, her intoxicatingly-
sexy second husband. Ginger knows
she should be happy, yet she’s rest
less and troubled: all the perfect parts
o f her life add up to an aching emp
tiness. Through McMillan’sdetailed,
true-to-life depiction, readers come
to know the real Ginger - and expe-
rience her confusion, her frustration,
and her pain.
As Knowing soon reveals, beneath
his suave facade Jackson is spoiled,
jealous man, who seizes every op
portunity to sabotage his wife’sdream
o f breaking free from the factory
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tedium to pursue a career in real-
estate.
A b o u t th e A u th o r: Rosalyn
McMi I Ian spent twenty years working
for the Ford Motor Company in De
troit before retiring to write profes
sionally.
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