Word: headley
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...living cannot convert a slum apartment into a palace. The Prince takes a job as janitor in a fast-food joint and learns that good manners, noble bearing and even heroic action cannot overcome class distinctions. He tries to woo an uncommon commoner (played brightly by Newcomer Shari Headley) without revealing his identity, and encounters resistance from her father, who, since he is Akeem's boss, cannot help mistaking him for a toad...
James Earl Jones shows an unexpected comic side as Akeem's royally out-of-touch father, who delivers such lines to his pampered son as, "I tied my own shoes once. It is an overrated experience." Shari Headley, as Akeem's dream queen, is pleasant, but her character is as upright as Akeem, which means that she is funny only because she is ignorant of Akeem's true identity...
When Charles turned eight, the Queen decided totest out her theories of royal education and senthim to Hill House, a short drive from BuckinghamPalace. After two years at that school, QueenElizabeth decided to send her son to Cheam, a prepschool in Headley, a small village near Hampshire.Although Charles' schoolmates treated him like oneof them, even addressing him by his first name, itwas obvious that Charles was not one of them...
Adrienne Jacqueline Headley...
...lives of a Black family living in Chicago's Southside ghetto. The family includes Mama Younger (Stephanie Wilford), her single daughter Beneatha Younger (Frettra Miller) and married son Walter Lee Younger (Kerrick Johnson) Living with the family are Walter's wife Ruth (Diane Cardwell) and son Travis (Dean Headley). They live in an apartment where Mama and her husband settled years ago, originally as a temporary abode for their small family. As the play opens, the family is waiting for insurance money coming from the death of Mama's husband. Tensions are high, because Walter Lee wants to invest...