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*•' * * n / -VO ± • '•• . -• u - • / • * •' ¡ J « rK*-*S <» J •*.* . • ; • Z* • •, * • I P age B2 i bri ary 19, 1997 • lm P o r il a n d O ksi rvi r (Tlic |Jn rtlan b COhsvrucr e ENTERTAINMENT T r u th B e c o m e s D r a m a Coal Miner's Daughter comes to Chinook winds Tfe Lincoln City, Ore., February 11, 1997 - Chinook W inds’ Concerts by the Sea invites you to join us for performances o f legendary singer, Loretta Lynn The first female performer to be nam ed C o u n try M usic Association’s "Entertainer o f the Year ”, she is one o f the most be loved singing artists o f modern times. The Academy o f Country Mu sic honored Loretta with eleven significant awards including "En tertainer o f the Year” and "Artists o f the Decade - 1970's” and in 1985 she received both the Ameri can Music Awards' and Music City N ews’ “Living Legend” awards. Loretta numerous number one hits include some o f the most controver sial and hard hitting songs ever re corded by a female country artist including "The Pill”, “O ne’s on the W ay” , “ D o n ’t C om e H om e A D rinkin” (W ith Lovin on Y our Mind). "You A in’t Woman Enough toTakeM y Man,” and "Coal Miner’s Daughter” . Her best selling book (also titled “Coal Miner’s Daughter”) was made into a move, giving Loretta Lynn the distinction o f being the first country singer with an Oscar-winning bio This February, during Black His tory Month, movie audiences will have the chance to look into a newly revealed part of America’s history, an untold story about its citizens of color. With the premiere o f Warner Bros.’ and Peters Entertainment's "R osew ood," directed by John Singleton, a shocking chapter in the not-so-distant past will be brought to dramatic light, revealing the depth o f the distrust, violence and preju dice that has characterized race re lations in this country since colonial times. During the first week o f January, 1923. Rosewood, a flourishing black town in central Florida, was burned to the ground by whites from the neighboring, less prosperous, town o f Sum ner. Fueled by a w hite woman’s falsified story that she was assaulted and beaten by a black stranger, a mob o f Sumner men de clared war on their unsuspecting neighbors. Many o f Rosewood's in habitants were murdered in cold blood and scores more were driven from their beds into the surrounding dank woods, never to return to their homes — or their secure way o f life - again. And for more than 70 years Rosewood’s history and destruction were kept a secret, never discussed by the survivors. Yet not everyone gave in to either savagery or panic during that horri fying week. A daring and compas sionate rescue carried dozens o f ter rified women and children out o f the dark'Florida swamps to safety. form ing the core o f bravery and hope around which a unique chapter in American history is illuminated. In John Singleton's film, the he roes are two men, one black and one white, whose commitment to the residents of Rosewood cause them to overcome their own fear and mutual distrust. Although this portion of the story is not historically accurate, it is believed that those who rescued graphical move. She has acted on several prime time network televi sion programs, did guest spots, interview s, co-hosted and per formed on television on countless occasions. Performances will be April 18th and 19th with one show nightly at 8pm. Ticket price is $27.50. Ob tain tickets by cal ling 1-888-MAIN- ACT (624-6228). Come welcome this grand lady o f country music to the Oregon Coast and celebrate further by try ing your luck at the loosest slots and most liberal black jack in the state o f Oregon 1997 Nicholl Fellowships Competition Beverly Hills. CA - The Acad emy o f Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced today that the 12th annual Don and Gee Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting pro gram is underway and applications are now available. As many as five $ 2 5 ,0 0 0 fe llo w sh ip s w ill be awarded through the program later this year. The competition is open to any individual who has not sold or optioned a screenplay or teleplay for more than $ 1,000 or received a fellowship or prize that includes a "first look" clause, an option, or any other quid pro quo involving the writer’s work. To enter, writers must submit a completed applica tion form, one copy o f their original screenplay, in English, and an entry fee o f US$30. Scripts previously entered in the Nicholl competition may be re-submitted. Entries must be postmarked no later than May I, 1996. Fellowships are awarded with the understanding that the recipients will each com plete a feature-length screenplay during the fellowship year. The A cademy acquires no rights to the works o f Nicholl fel lows and does not involve itselfcom- mercially in any way with theircom- pleted scripts. Last year’s competition drew a record 4,181 entries. Since the program 's inception in 1985, a total o f 48 fellowships have been pre sented. Additional information about the Nicholl Fellowship can be found at the Academ y’s site on the World Wide Web o f the Internet. The ad dress is >http://www.oscars.org/>. The site also has a down-loadable version o f the competition applica tion form. Interested parties w hodo not have access to the Internet can receive entry rules and an applica tion form by sending a business- size (#10), self-addressed, stamped envelope to: The Nicholl Fellow ships, Academy o f Motion Picture Arts and Science. 8949 Wilshne Blvd., Beverly Hills. CA 90211- 1972. Advertise In (Tin' | J o r t I ; in b (O h s e rn rr Celebrate Black History Month at the Interstate Firehouse t e Cultural Center IFCC Gallery presents: Voices in Stone: Art of Zimbabwe Stunning Shona stone sculpture and textiles. Monday-Friday noon-5:30 pm through February 28. Free. IFCC Theatre presents: Driving Miss Daisy Fridays & Saturdays at 8 pm through March 15, Tickets $10-15. Call 287-5929 for reservations. IFCC Student Matinee Series presents: Driving Miss Daisy For grades 6-12. Thursdays at 9:30 am through March 6. Tickets $4. Call 823-2071 for reservations. and John Ole Tome, Maasai Tribe Cultural Lecturer For pre-K through grade 8. February 26 & 28 at 10 am & 1 pm. 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In the first week o f 1923, in the central Florida town o f Sumner, a white woman did blame a black man for attacking her (although none were ever identi fied) and the ensuing mob violence did result in the burning and de struction o f the neighboring, pre dominantly black town of Rosewood. Men were lynched and women were assaulted and murdered, and those who survived left all their worldly belongings behind and hid in the swamps in order to escape certain death. And there was a train that ran through Rosewood which was com mandeered in the middle o f the di saster; on that train, the women and children who had survived in the swamps were carried to safety. Although for years the devasta tion o f Rosewood was kept a secret, in 1982 a newspaper reporter for the St. Petersburg Times named Gary Moore was working on a weekend feature story about the Levy County area of Florida, where Rosewood had once been located. He noted that there seemed to be no black resi dents o f the region and asked why. Eventually, with the help of hesitant personal recollections and old news paper clippings, Moore began to piece together an account o f what had occurred. His next step was to try to find witnesses to the event, which turned out to be considerably more difficult than he had expected. Most of the form er R osew ood fam ilies had moved far away, and many o f them. after losing their homes and posses sions, had been forced to take me nial jobs for the rest o f their lives. Survivors o f the massacre feared that whites might try to track them down, and that, com bined with shame about then'victimization, kept man tenaciously silent. Eventually, however, Moore iden tified about 20 survivors and their descendants. Fie began to research their stories, assisted in his efforts by Arnette Doctor, the son o f a sur vivor o f the events at Rosewood who had h im s e lf been re se a rc h in g Rosewood’s past and seeking justice for what had been done to his family and fellow townspeople. Moore’s reporting o f the infor mation he discovered piqued the interest of the respected CBS-TV news program 60 minutes, which first reported the story of Rosewood in 1983. More than a decade o f legal action ensued, as Doctor strenuously worked to aid passage o f a bill in the Florida House and Senate offering reparations to the survivors o f Rose wood and their families. Finally, in April 1994. the bill was passed, the first o f its kind ever to become law in America. 60 Min utes once again covered the Rose wood story, this time with its legis lative aftermath. At that time, it came to the attention o f producer Jon Peters, whose company, Peters Entertainment, acquired rights to the story and began to develop it as a motion picture. "When I saw the 60 Minutes story on Rosewood I knew this could be a huge move," says Peters. "It has raw emotion, action and strong charac ters, and it’s total ly relevant to what’s going on today w ith race relations in this country." SHAWDON’S RESTAURANT & LOUNGE 2731 N KILLINGSWORTH & GREELEY PORTLAND. OREGON 97217 503-2854144 Arts at Lewis &. Clark College Joshua Redman Rolling Slone 's Jazz Artist ot the Year, 1994 and 1995 and Monetary Donation Are Always Accepted John Singleton, director of "Rosewood" NORTH PORTLANDS BEST KEPT SECRET REASONABLY PRICED HOME OF THE DIRTY DOZEN HAMBURGERS SENIOR DISCOUNT NON SMOKING DINING. X ‘: Saturday, February 22 ALL I) CAN EAT MONDAY & TUESDAY 5:00 PM TO 9:00 PM PINING ROOM OTEN 1 1:00 AM TO 10:00 PM LOUNGE OFFERS FULL SERVICE BAR lohin 7:30 and 10 p.m . 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