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...Francisco Bay Area for which we recruited almost 6,000 homosexuals. Only a small percentage of those are represented in Boys in the Band. Some day someone will produce a play or movie that depicts a typical homosexual role in our society. And it won't portray a "deviant" behavior but rather a "variant." And that can be beautiful...
...film, which has a "relatively large budget," according to Ritchie, will portray the murder of three civil rights workers in Mississippi in 1964. The killing was conceived and carried out by two dozen leading citizens of Meridian and Neshoba counties, including lawmen, clergymen and businessmen...
Jesse Jackson is somebody all right. He 'has a host of adoring admirers as well as caustic critics. But he is still too young to assume a black leadership role on a national scale. He rightfully resents white journalists who portray him as the heir to King or the rival to Abernathy. If S.C.L.C. were to seek a new leader today, the Atlanta-based organization would not be apt to reach outside the South. Until he decided to run for Congress, the most likely
...show world has long made room for black stars, but they still tend to be restricted to playing what Harry Belafonte resentfully calls "Super-Negroes"-that is, roles that are one-dimensional and have little relevance to black reality. Generally, the characters they portray are admirable beyond plausibility. In television, blacks like Bill Cosby, Leslie Uggams and Flip Wilson have cleared the last hurdle, as headliners of their own shows. Of the networks' 72 prime-time series, twelve have black co-stars or featured players. In nonacting production jobs, a report on Hollywood film and TV studios showed that...
...Corp. has been peddling its Dodges with a series of television ads in which a paunchy, cigar-chomping sheriff tells a Dodge dealer: "You in a heap o' trouble, boy!" Ohio State Highway Patrol Superintendent Robert Chiaramonte was not amused. He wrote to Chrysler complaining that the ads "portray the police officer in a most objectionable manner and tend to weaken the court process of America." Getting no immediate answer, Chiaramonte began exploring ways to halt the state's purchase of Plymouth patrol cars, also manufactured by Chrysler. Suddenly the company became very sympathetic to Chiaramonte...