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...Oscar nomination for Best Actress. Goldberg has the perfect face for Celie, capable as she is of transforming the worried lines of meekness and suffering into a stiffled grin and a twinkle in the eye that belie convert amusement and joy. Also creating a reserve of depth is Adolph Caesar as Mister's father, the swaggering, comic fool who sires the story's principal tyrant. In fact, some of the film's most engaging moments are those featuring the minor and often humorous characters that Walker used to show the absurdity of Celie's situation...
...Coors boycott was begun in 1977 after the Adolph Coors Brewery Company refused to bargain with its workers over issues such as forced lie detector tests, compulsory physical examinations and search and seizure of employees' private property by Coors's private police force. Coors has been cited by the National Labor Relations Board for a number of instances of illegal harrassment of employees and continues to harrass and dismiss employees who support unionization. The company has broken 19 unions in the last 20 years. In addition Coors has been implicated in hazardous waste dumping and in unfair employment practices...
Boston labor unions have launched a boycott of the Adolph Coors Co. alleging discrimination against minority groups and trade union members...
...Shook, Media Relations Specialist at Adolph Coors Co., denied the charges saying, "Coors is not anti-union, but pro-people. It's one of the most progressive companies." He said Coors endorses social and civic programs such as the National Black Economic Development Coalition and several environmental organizations...
...Though many film entrepreneurs of the first generation were native born, they were soon replaced by a bazaar of movie merchants who had arrived in the U.S. barely before the masses they hoped to enlighten. The roll call of Jewish-immigrant moguls has since become its own Hollywood legend: Adolph Zukor, the Hungarian who had worked as janitor in a Manhattan fur store (president of Paramount Pictures); Carl Laemmle, the bookkeeper from Germany (founder, Universal Pictures); Samuel Goldwyn, the glove salesman from Warsaw (founder, Goldwyn Studios); Louis B. Mayer, the scrap-metal dealer from Minsk (vice president and general manager...