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Riggs ticks off the breakthroughs for blacks in the '60s and '70s, then puts each under a critical magnifying glass. Julia, in which Diahann Carroll played TV's first black sitcom mother, was intended as "some sort of an apology for a lot of the things we had done on Amos 'n' Andy," says creator Hal Kanter. Yet the show's sunny treatment of race relations was as far from reality as anything on the tube. (An encounter between Julia's little boy and a white playmate: "Your mother's colored!" "Of course. I'm colored too." "You are?" Squeal...
...year ago, Ken Howard was cozily encased in the arms of Diahann Carroll on the hit show "Dynasty." Currently, he plays the tormented Michael Trent, a playwright sifting through reams of nonsensical nuclear deterrence theories, in the ART's production of Arthur Kopit's "End of the World with Symposium to Follow...
With flashbulbs flashing, fans and photographers surrounding her, singer and Dynasty star Diahann Carroll might have been stepping out of her black, stretch limousine onto the streets of Hollywood rather than Harvard Square yesterday afternoon...
Signing autographs seated at a table surrounded by copies of her book, "Diahann!" Hollywood actress Carroll greeted a crowd of 250 fans yesterday afternoon in the Coop book store...
...most avid supporters of these roles are, not surprisingly, the women who portray them. "It's fun," says Merrill, whose wealthy character on Hot Pursuit has her husband murdered and frames an innocent woman for the crime. "You get all the aggressions out of your system." Diahann Carroll, who joined Dynasty at the end of last season as the haughty Dominique Deveraux, announced proudly that she would be playing "TV's first black bitch." On the other hand, Collins insists that there is more to Alexis than malevolence: "Women look to her struggles, her strong sense of identity...