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Appealing her tax-evasion sentence, which included 750 hours of community service, the hotel queen initially considered work at a Harlem home for drug- addicted babies. She hasn't followed up on her quiet visit there last October...
...next day Mandela captivated more than 3,000 people gathered at Riverside Church by joining in an exuberant rendition of the toyi-toyi, a South African dance of celebration. That night 100,000 people jammed Harlem's Africa Square, content to gaze at the visiting hero whose voice could barely be heard over a feeble public-address system. Later, 50,000 cheered Mandela at a rally in Yankee Stadium, where he delighted his audience by donning a baseball cap and declaring, "You now know who I am. I am a Yankee...
...entourage that certain American politicians would take advantage of his presence and upstage him. At the top of the list was Jesse Jackson, who had a way of getting into camera range at nearly every point along Mandela's New York route. The New York-based organizers of the Harlem rally made a point of keeping Jackson off the list of speakers, despite his best efforts to be added to the program. It didn't help when the master of ceremonies told the crowd, "I know for many of us it's been a long time since we've really...
...fear of self-destruction often leads to self-parody, and that, in particularly dreary forms, is what Murphy has been offering in recent years. In Coming to America he was all sweet reason. In Harlem Nights he was all sour obscenities. In Beverly Hills Cop II he was simply drowned out by a series of explosions. And now, in Another 48 Hrs., he is almost invisible...
...where media fire storms are an art form, the visit-as-event will reach its highest stage. He will be besieged by cameras and jostling admirers, beseeched by myriad groups seeking his imprimatur, and bemedaled at parades and stadium rallies for eleven days in eight cities from Harlem to Hollywood...