Word: godfrey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Your otherwise excellent cover story on Coach Don Shula and the Miami Dolphins [Dec. 11] was marred by an egregious misrepresentation of our fair city of Miami. While your conjectures about the way things are on Collins Avenue, Jackie Gleason Drive, Arthur Godfrey Road and at Zorita's may well be true of the city of Miami Beach, they are in no way representative of the city of Miami, home of the Dolphins...
...high-rolling town where lacquered young ladies comb the bars along Collins Avenue through the long, hot winter, trading favors for bread. It is an unlikely kind of football town. Who thinks of apple-cheeked American youth playing a fast game of touch on Jackie Gleason Drive or Arthur Godfrey Road? Who would expect hoarse cries of "Dee-fense! Dee-fense!" from a bathing-suit salesman dressed in a robin's-egg blue sports jacket and ocher slacks...
...other offenders are Cotton Comes to Harlem and Come Back Charleston Blue, which feature Raymond St. Jacques and Godfrey Cambridge as veteran Harlem detectives. In Cotton a modern day Marcus Garvey is unmasked as a charlatan, while in Charleston Blue a dynamic young black photographer who rids the community of heroin turns out to be using it for his own purposes. Black Americans are implicitly instructed that Pan-Africanist leaders are frauds and that blacks who attempt to serve the community have alternative motives. The thrust of these films is that blacks are incapable of solving their own problems...
...phases with McGovern's candidacy. Until Edmund Muskie faltered in the primaries, reporters generally consigned McGovern to also-ran status and paid little attention to his ideas. Then coverage focused on the organizational wonders of his nomination drive. During that period, observed the Christian Science Monitor's Godfrey Sperling, McGovern was getting a "free ride" from a largely uncritical press. Finally, the fare went up during the California primary, when journalists joined Hubert Humphrey in picking at McGovern's specific proposals and finding fault with them...
COME BACK, CHARLESTON BLUE features two of Shaft's soul brothers, a pair of Harlem plainclothesmen named Grave Digger Jones (Godfrey Cambridge) and Coffin Ed Johnson (Raymond St. Jacques) who made their movie debut in the casual, sometimes chaotic comedy thriller Cotton Comes to Harlem (1969). In Charleston Blue, Director Mark Warren shows a boisterous if somewhat blatant sense of fun as well as a knack for dealing with mayhem. Charleston Blue is like slaphappy and violent vaudeville. Under the guise of cleaning up the ghetto, a flashy fashion photographer called Painter is rerouting all the Mafia...