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ENTERTAINMENT
Heads Up Super Band’s Debut CD,
Rock This! Chris Rock
Showcases Live Set at Berks Jazz Fest
Gerald Veasley * K enny Blake * Joe M cBride * Keith Carlock.
While crowds throughout Europe
have cheered Heads Up International
recording artists Joe McBride, Kenny
Blake and Gerald Veasley at special
live performances o f the Heads Up
Super Band, the trio have rarely
teamed for U.S. appearances.
However, stateside fans are in for
a treat when the Seattle-based label
releases the band's first international
recording— Heads U p Super Band
Live at Berks Jazz Fest. Featuring
pianist/vocalist McBride, saxophon
ist Blake, and bassist Veasley with
drummer Keith Carlock, the disc will
also be an enhanced CD featuring
video footage form the 1998 concert
in Berks County, Pennsylvania.
The Super Band brings together
the top smooth jazz players from
H ead’s Up roster and highlights each
artist and his work. “Though Kenny,
Joe, and Gerald are all great solo
artists with followings o f their own,
sometime we can’t resist the tempta
tion to create a monster show featur
ing all o f them together,” explains
Dave Love, president o f Heads Up
International.
“Together, these guys are the ulti
“Chris Rock is probably the tunm-
est and smartest comedian working
today.”
—Caryn James, New York Times
“U nlike so m any com edians’
books, this one isn’t a wispy flight
through the land ofwhimsy. It’s closer
to a hip sociology primer, with direct
hits on such subjects as the differ
ence between white skin-magazines
and black ones.”
__James Wolcott, Vanity Fair
“ [Rock This] rolls along nicely,
right over w hites, blacks, men,
women, and your mama, in fact... And
somehow manages to come off as a
nice young man you’d be proud to
introduce to your parents...Cheaper
than a cover charge and two drinks.”
-A lex an d ra Jacobs, Entertain
ment Weekly
“With Rock This!, his new laugh-
out-loud humor book..., rock shows
that he’s real, raw, and his already
taken the throne, ripping into every
thing from crack to rap to racism.
Rock doesn’t just make you laugh;
he makes you think.”
—Nichole Christian, Vibe
You’ve seen him on his Emmy
A w ard-nom inated HBO special
Bring The Pain, on HBO talk show
The Chris Rock Show, in commer
cials for 1-800-COLLECT, and as
the host o f the 1997 MTV Video
Music Awards. Y ou’ve heard him as
mate contemporary jazz band. they
the voice o f“Little Penny Hardaway”
have sold out shows all across Eu
in Nike commercials and on his com
rope, so we thought it was time to
edy album Roll With The New. Now
share their collaborations with audi
you can read America’s hottest stand
ences at home.
up comedian, Chirs Rock, in Rock
Following Berks, the Heads Up
This (Hyperion; Mass Market Pa
Super Band also performed at the
perback; November 1, 1998; $6.99)
Capital Jazz Festival, Syracuse Jazz
— a hilarious, no-holds-barred look
Festival, Carolina Music Fest and
at everything from race to relation
Clifford Brown Jazz Festival.”
ships to politics.
A veteran o f stand-up comedy for
thirteen years, Rock has built a repu
tation on his daring, "deal-with-it
humor” (Spin) and honest, intelli
gent analysis of society. In Rock
This!, Rock gives more o f the edgy,
observational humor that has earned
him two Emmy Award nominations,
wide critical acclaim, and a legion of
devoted fans. In chapters headed
“Cash Flow,” “1 Said Shut Up!” ’
“Float On,” and “Social Studies,”
Rock takes a hilarious look at such
topics as the trouble with money, bad
phone sex, a day in the life o f a
“Functional drug addict” and why
we don’t need a death penalty.
F rom stories o f growing up a black
boy in a nearly all-white school to his
now famous bit, “Marion Barry,
Crackhead," Rock tells it all - just
like it is:
Halle Berry To Star In HBO Pictures’
Dorothy Dandridge
H alle Berry (“ Bulw orth," “Why
Do Fools Fall in Love” ) will star in
HBO Pictures’ Dorothy Dandridge,
it was announced by John Matoian,
president, HBO Pictures and HBO
NYC Productions. The cast also
includes O bba B abatunde (HBO
N Y C ’s “ M iss E v e r s ’ B o y s” ),
Loretta D evine (“ W aiting to Ex
hale”), La Tanya Richardson (“U.S.
M a r s h a ls :) , D .B .
S w eeney
(“Spaw n” ), Tam ara T aylor (Party
o f Five”), Cynda W illiam s (“The
W edding”) and Brent Spiner (Star
Trek: The N ext G eneration”). D i
rected by M artha Coollidge (Out
to Sea”), the film begins produc
tion Sept. 29 in Los Angeles.
“HBO is fortunate to have an
am azing ensem ble cast headed by
the M ulti-talented Halle Berry, who
will re-introduce the w orld to Dor
o th y D an d rid g e, a rem ark ab le
woman who fought to break the
color barrier,” said M atoian.
Robert Kayz executive produces
with partner M octesum a Esparza
fo r E sp a rz a /K a tz P ro d u c tio n s
(“ Selena"). Halle Berry also serves
as executive producer along with
V ince C irrin c io n e and Jo sh u a
M a u re r (“ D e a d M en C a n ’t
D ance”). Larry A lbucher (“Three
W ishes” ) is producer. The script is
by Shonda Rhitnes (“The Other
U .M
1 II)
W omen” ) and Scott Abbott (H B O ’s
“W inchell”). D orothy D andridge
is based on the book “ D orothy
D andridge,” by Earl M ills. Gaye
H irsch is the HBO executive in
charge o f the film.
D orothy D andridge traces the
true story o f the legendary black
actress (Berry) from her youth to
her tragic early death. D andridge
achieved success in the title role o f
the 1954 film “ Carm en Jones,”
m aking history by becom ing the
first black w om an ever nom inated
for a Best Actress Academy Award.
Along w ith her accom plishm ent
came heartache and despair over
tw o high-profile m arriages, a love
affair with O tto Prem inger, the in
stitutionalization o f her only daugh
ter and a drug dependency.
Halle Berry has starred in such
feature films as the recent “Why
Do Fools Fall in love," as well as
“ Bulworth,” “B.A.P.S., ’’“The Rich
M an’s W ife,” “ Executive D eci
sion,’’“The Flintstones" and “Los
ing Isaiah,” am ong others.
H e r TV c r e d its in c lu d e the
m in is e r ie s “ T h e W e d d in g ,”
e x e c u tiv e p ro d u c e d by O p ra h
W in fre y ,
“ S o lo m o n
and
S h e b a ” a n d “ Q u e e n .” fo r
w h ic h B e rry w o n an N A A C P
Im a g e A w a rd .
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