Word: harlemization
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...high-maintenance people. That her clientele includes hip-hop music producer Sean ("Puffy") Combs, antivirus-software designer Peter Norton and novelist Tom Clancy is a testament to her diverse appeal. When music executive Andre Harrell called upon her to update his Manhattan apartment in the style of the 1920s Harlem Renaissance, Bridges achieved the look so artfully that her efforts were featured in House & Garden. Fusing minimalism with romanticism, she creates modern settings by using vintage pieces...
...graduate of Parsons School of Design in New York City, Bridges founded her own business six years ago, using her home in Harlem as her calling card. The apartment is a study in opposites where an ornate daybed is offset by the clean lines of geometrically shaped ceramics. Bridges' first book, Furnishing Forward, is due out next year, and she hopes to branch out into television. Her multimedia ambitions have earned her comparisons to Martha Stewart, but Bridges points out one important distinction. "I respect her as a businesswoman," she says, "but I doubt anybody will ever see me shingling...
...There were other singers as well - Darlene Love later became even more important to me than Ronnie. There were The Crystals on "He's a Rebel" and "Uptown" and "Da Doo Ron Ron," "Ben E. King on "Rose in Spanish Harlem," Sonny Charles and the Checkmates on " Black Pearl." But Ronnie was first...
...hindsight we scorn the whites who loved minstrel shows and pity the blacks who had to play in them. But there are shades of culpability. Astaire, donning blackface for his Bojangles of Harlem number, probably thought (from ignorance, not malice) that he was paying sincere tribute to the great dancer Bill Robinson. As for Mantan Moreland, the black comic whose bug-eyed mugging in Charlie Chan films earns Lee's particular ire, he also was the star of films made for, and presumably appreciated by, the black audience. Perhaps we all have 20/20 vision of the past...
...Brandon would like to see more Baltimore kids go to Baraka. "I learned self-control," he says. "I learned not to be a ringleader or a crowd follower." Passing near Harlem Park, his old middle school, he seems embarrassed by the boarded-up row houses, the trash-strewn streets, the bars on the school windows. Like a nervous out-of-towner, Brandon begs a visitor to speed up the car. "I never go outside," he says. "I ain't associatin' with them hoodlums...