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...city fathers have no intention of turning their town into another Las Vegas. Branson sees itself as a family attraction: almost every production has a flag-waving number, and there are several gospel shows. Jack Herschend, president of Silver Dollar City, points out that no blue shows have succeeded. "This is such a family place that anyone who tried to capture the off- color niche wouldn't work...
This is the new Hollywood gospel, and its prophet is Jeffrey Katzenberg. In January, Katzenberg, who runs Walt Disney's movie operations, wrote a staff memo that was passed around Hollywood more quickly and urgently than a joint at Woodstock. In this back-to-basics plea, he ripped the notions of the bankable star. "If this were true," he asked, alluding to Batman and The Two Jakes, "then how can one explain what happened to 1990's vehicle for 1989's 'most bankable star,' Jack Nicholson?" He apologized for the studio's big- budget Dick Tracy and disclosed that...
...when a black Pentecostal church in Memphis invited him to speak at a rally to raise money for a gymnasium to serve inner-city black youths. "Duke draws a crowd, he has a message and he says he's a Christian," explained Jimmy Boyd, the owner of a local gospel radio station, who arranged the event...
...artistic relationships are closer than that between a choreographer and the dancer who embodies his or her inspiration. Such was the relationship between Alvin Ailey and Judith Jamison. Ailey, at the head of his own dance company, drew on gospel music, the blues and other legacies of the black experience to create works that helped open the world of dance to new audiences and new performers. Jamison was the majestic dancer who performed Ailey's creations with a poetry and passion that matched his own. In such a collaboration, says Jamison, the other person "knows what you're doing without...
...Kohner throws herself on her black mother's coffin and sobs out her remorse to the throb of a Mahalia Jackson spiritual. Jungle Fever is no less brazen -- or assured. A righteous man shoots his deranged son, and the man's wife unleashes a scream that blends with the gospel wail of . . . Mahalia Jackson. Here Jungle Fever ascends fearlessly into the delirium of high Hollywood melodrama: it's berserk Sirk...