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Other fans found the strangers irresistible. In San Diego, where the Chargers won three straight games on the road for the first time since 1963, a platoon of colorful replacements was retained. An actor from HBO's 1st & Ten series, Joe Phillips, got a real sack and a job. Les Miller, who fell on a fumble in the end zone, no longer has to make plastic handles for ice coolers. Of the good teams, the Redskins in the National Conference and the Browns in the American survived as well as any. The Super Bowl champion the year of the last...
These stark words foreshadow the next 29 years in the life of Nelson Mandela, the spiritual leader of South Africa's black majority, who is now serving a life sentence for sabotage and plotting revolution. Starring Danny Glover as Nelson and Alfre Woodard as his wife Winnie, Mandela, an HBO movie premiering Sept. 20 at 8 p.m. EDT, traces the couple's unfinished struggle against institutionalized racism in South Africa. It is also the melancholy love story of Winnie, now 50, and Nelson, 69, who wed during a break in his trial for treason and honeymooned while...
Mandela is Hollywood's first major effort to present South Africa's racial troubles to an American mass audience. The movie is already under attack. Even before he saw it, the Rev. Jerry Falwell referred to it as "Communist propaganda" and threatened a Moral Majority boycott of HBO during September. Claiming that Mandela is "pro-terrorist," Citizens for Reagan, a lobbying group, has said it will call on its 100,000 members to cancel their HBO subscriptions. In response, HBO Chairman Michael Fuchs declared that viewers should make up their own minds about the movie...
Apartheid may shadow these productions as it did HBO's groundbreaking Mandela. It was shot last fall in Zimbabwe, where armed soldiers guarded the set. (The local office of the exiled African National Congress had been bombed six months before.) When curious farmworkers gathered around and learned that a movie about Mandela was being shot, they waved their arms and shouted, "Man-de-la! Man-de-la!" Recalls Woodard: "Zimbabwe is newly free and glistening with hope. Having South African refugees all around us gave the script new urgency...
...America -- not bad for a Sunday-night club outing. But not that surprising either. Stand-up comics are suddenly everywhere. On TV they get nightly exposure on such talk shows as Tonight and Late Night with David Letterman, as well as on | their own specials for cable networks like HBO and Showtime. Jackie Mason, a veteran stand-up performer from the '50s and '60s, made a smash comeback by turning his comedy routines into the current hit Broadway show The World According to Me. And Steve Martin is just one of a long and stellar list of former stand...