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FREEDOMFEST (Fox network, June 11, 5 p.m. EDT). Whitney Houston and Harry Belafonte are among the gaggle of stars celebrating Nelson Mandela's 70th birthday in a daylong concert from London's Wembley Stadium...
Eight performances a week, lessons, and recording sessions leave little free time. But the cast managed to squeeze in a Sunday-evening trip to Staten Island for a birthday party at the math teacher's home. On the ferry, amid the hubbub, Dumisani Dlamini, who plays Crocodile, a high-stepping character in the play, was subdued. A striking figure with a Mohawk hairstyle and tribal scars on his sculptured cheekbones, he gazed off into the mist. "My mother passed in March," he confided softly. "Since then, life has not been the same. I could not go back to South Africa...
...chorus of 200,000 serenaded Pope John Paul II, who had just turned 68, with a thundering Happy Birthday last week in the Paraguayan town of Encarnacion. During a later appearance, the impassioned chant "Freedom, freedom, freedom!" greeted the Pontiff. The cry was really meant for Paraguay's ironfisted dictator, General Alfredo Stroessner, and the Pope quietly echoed...
With a bloody loss at the hands and feet of Pitcher Ed Whitson in 1985, Martin was plainly on his way to Palookaville. But the beating or bouncing he took two weeks ago at a Texas topless bar came close enough to his 60th birthday, and near enough to the Copa, to seem to make a full circle. Mantle was even there a little earlier, still leering at 56. The funniest line was Martin's: "I guess I can't go anywhere anymore," as if he had been at midnight Mass. The saddest was Yankee First Baseman Don Mattingly...
...What's the hurry?" Irving Berlin said on his 99th birthday when told of plans to celebrate his centennial. Last week, at the only gala he sanctioned for his 100th, the reclusive songwriter stayed home. Smart move. Taped for broadcast on CBS on May 27, the show may sound better on television than it did live in Carnegie Hall. But it did have its high points: Broadway and TV Star Nell Carter hip-hopping through Alexander's Ragtime Band, Michael Feinstein singing I Love a Piano, and Garrison Keillor reciting All Alone. But then there were the lows: tinny amplification...