Word: harlem
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...AMERICAN EXPERIENCE (PBS, Tuesdays, 9 p.m. on most stations). What's this? A documentary series featuring real-life news footage rather than actors re- creating it? That is an admirably quaint notion that has spawned some fascinating programs. Former Harlem Congressman Adam Clayton Powell is profiled this week...
...HARLEM NIGHTS Directed and Written by Eddie Murphy...
...video as Chunky A, now airing on MTV. A movie career, meanwhile, has sprouted almost effortlessly. Last year Hall co-starred with his best pal Eddie Murphy in Coming to America, the No. 2 box-office hit of 1988. Next week he will be back onscreen with Murphy in Harlem Nights...
After meshing amiably with Murphy in Coming to America (in which he played multiple roles, ranging from a grizzled barber-shop customer to a fiery evangelist), Hall seems poised for a movie breakthrough. In Harlem Nights, which Murphy wrote and directed, Hall is onscreen for only a few minutes, as a gangster who "hates Eddie's guts." He is currently talking with producers Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer (Beverly Hills Cop) about starring in an action-comedy, which would probably be shot next fall. "By then," Hall says, "either I'll have a grasp on what I'm doing...
...Connecticut's Goodspeed Opera House engagingly shifts vintage Gershwin to 1920s Harlem. Tony winner Ron Richardson (Big River) stars...