Word: haley
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...economically hard pressed Hartford, spirits have risen a bit this spring. Why? Consider the case of Mary Haley, a slender, brown-haired woman who wears her 41 years well. She arises early, shoos her three resident children (ages 17, 14 and ten) off to school. She orders one to remember to feed the dog, then bustles around a six-room frame house at 61 Monroe Street in a working-class area. The house is 64 years old and tax delinquent. After picking up a stray article of clothing here, dusting a table top there, Mary too is off-to work...
...Counter in Stockholm in 1978 at a Press Conference for Alex Haley and on a few other occasions altogether the times we met can be counted in minutes. I sent him an invitation because the films have ethnomedical and health aspects. It is not true that he "strongly protested the showing of the films" or tried to stop the presentation. After the screening he made some aggressive remarks and walked out while most of the audience stayed on for further discussion. I was not the "main speaker"; I was the only speaker and introduced the films. I did not have...
...that pepper the body of the film. These are truly gratifying. "We were doing rock and roll before anybody heard of it." Turner grumbles. We have all heard this sort of talk before, but a 1955 clip of Turner performing his "Shake, Rattle, and Roll" (later covered by Bill Haley, Chubby Checker, and Elvis himself) makes the connection between KansasCity swing and rock 'n' roll strikingly clean. When talk turns to Charlie Parker, the opening chorus of "Hot House" rumbles in the background, and Ricker treats us to the only two minutes of Parker footage in existence. This 1952 clip...
...period detail and acting, Palmerstown is well produced, but it is full of stereotypes and padding. The many repetitive confrontations unfold in the prosaic manner of a high school civics class. The black characters are all saints, as they are not in other Lear and Haley shows, and the whites are generally either fire-breathing racists or pure-hearted liberals. There are also too many sentimental scenes that show the two young heroes frolicking in brotherly love on sunny fields. The results are so tame that not even a last-minute medical crisis can arouse any excitement...
...Lear and Haley would only remember their roots, they should soon bring on a new Edith Bunker or Chicken George to stir Palmerstown...