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Although the institution will survive, Covenant House will miss Ritter's flair and spirit. Shane Sanders, 20, sold drugs and lived on a rooftop in Harlem until checking into a Covenant House shelter three weeks ago. Says he: "I finally came here because I couldn't stand living on the streets all the time. I find it hard to believe all these things against a man who built Covenant House for 22 years. It hurts a lot of us. Father Bruce is like our father...
...doubt that Fernandez, 54, is serious. Born in East Harlem of Puerto Rican parents, the former high school dropout and University of Miami graduate comes to New York with firsthand knowledge of the city's racial and ethnic divisions. In Miami, he is credited with having transformed public instruction, a feat he hopes to duplicate in his new post. "We're losing the Gorbachev of American education," laments Andy Gollan, a spokesman for the Dade County school board. The question is whether the New York system, with its 27.3% dropout rate and entrenched tradition of cronyism, is ready for educational...
...HARLEM NIGHTS. Making his directing debut, Eddie Murphy can't seem to decide whether to go for laughs or melodrama. His movie about the great Harlem nightclubs that flourished in the '30s generates a lot of foul-mouthed noise but only fitful, murky light...
Rifkin helped organize demonstrations at the U.N. and the Pentagon, and haunted bars near military bases to find soldiers who would testify about U.S. crimes. After the war Rifkin worked in Harlem as a VISTA volunteer and in 1976 organized a so-called People's Bicentennial to celebrate what he considered the real national virtue: not patriotism but civil disobedience...
...skill as writer and director to use cold-blooded murder (three times) as the topper for gag sequences. Once or twice his former sweet hipness glimmers through, and he has written a funny bit for his pal Arsenio Hall, playing a man on a murderous crying jag. But mostly Harlem Nights offers a depressing answer to that not entirely pressing question, "Will success spoil Eddie Murphy?" It looks...