Word: churches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mostly, the shooting proceeded without incident. Sometimes, though, old images must have haunted the older townsfolk. One day Colesberry spotted one of the crew's pickup trucks toting a huge Klan cross through town and had the driver cover it up. During the ten-week shoot, derelict churches and other structures were set ablaze; production paused while the ashes cooled down. One evening the company assembled to film the burning of a local black church, which had been bought and would be rebuilt to the congregation's specifications. "It was freezing that night," recalls Bob Penny, who played the role...
...basketball player who lives an unreal life as an athletic icon, North Carolina remains much more to Michael Jordan than just his home state or alma mater. In Chicago he is unable to attend his local Methodist church because of the commotion his presence creates. "But in Carolina I feel at ease. My real friends keep me straight -- they don't praise me or ask favors." With characteristic modesty, he adds, "I would probably be unreasonable without my friends and family to keep me in balance...
...worse will be the media, who will be as thick as black flies whenever Bush is in town. The Washington press corps already left its mark on Kennebunkport over Thanksgiving. Roland Drew was talking to a photographer before Bush arrived at the South Congregational Church for Sunday services when a reporter snapped, "Get out of my way!" Says Drew, more in wonder than anger: "No one talks like that around here." Day defended some firewood that two reporters planned to liberate to warm themselves while camped out near the Bush compound. "How do you 'borrow' firewood?" Day asks...
...founded Project Open Hand with seven "clients." Each day by 5 a.m., she would prowl the produce markets for "distressed" vegetables. She cooked in a church basement and delivered the meals in her battered Volkswagen van. "Some of the people were so emaciated," she remembers, "they would have to crawl to where the buzzer...
SENIOR WRITERS: David Brand, Tom Callahan, Margaret Carlson, George J. Church, Richard Corliss, Otto Friedrich, Paul Gray, Robert Hughes, Walter Isaacson, Ed Magnuson, Lance Morrow, Frederick Painton, Walter Shapiro, R. Z. Sheppard, William E. Smith, Frank Trippett...