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...Westin Bonaventure Hotel last Thursday signaled a Hollywood gala in progress. The collective star power of those in attendance would have done Oscar or Emmy proud. Elizabeth Taylor served as hostess and co- chairperson. Carol Burnett and Sammy Davis Jr. belted out a medley of show tunes. Fast-footed Hinton Battle strutted his stuff from the Broadway musical The Tap Dance Kid, and Rockers Cyndi Lauper and Rod Stewart teamed up to sing a pounding version of Time After Time. The audience was even treated to a message from Old Trouper Ronald Reagan, whose ties to Tinseltown remain close...
...survey last fall found that only 35% of blacks said they were "very patriotic," compared with 56% of whites. In Fairmont, W. Va., Olympic Gymnast Mary Lou Retton's home town, people are brimming with pride, of course. Yet unemployment is running at 10%, and as Mayor Gregory Hinton says, "Patriotism does not feed the family...
...dances. He shuts himself up at the house in a room that has no mirrors?"Mirrors make you pose," he has said?and cuts loose to his own music or to the Isley Brothers' Showdown, practicing what Dancer Hinton Battle calls "moves that kill. It's the combinations that really distinguish him as an artist. Spin, stop, pull up leg, pull jacket open, turn, freeze. And the glide, where he steps forward while pushing back. Spinning three times and popping up on his toes. That's a trademark, and a move a lot of professionals wouldn...
...lawyer, living in a Manhattan duplex with his wife Ginnie (Hattie Winston), their 13-year-old daughter Emma (Marline Allard) and their ten-year-old son Willie (Alfonso Ribeiro). Emma wants to be an attorney; Willie just gotta dance, under the eager tutorial eye of his raffish uncle Dipsey (Hinton Battle). If Dad is willing to indulge Emma's career goal, he is adamant that Willie will never put on taps. "We didn't get off the plantation," he argues in a quick history lesson, "until we stopped dancin' and started doin...
...years. In a speech to a group of Salvadoran business leaders two weeks ago, U.S. Ambassador Thomas Pickering warned bluntly that U.S. aid would be halted if the Salvadoran government did not make a greater effort to stop the killing. When Pickering's predecessor in San Salvador, Deane Hinton, delivered a similar speech in October 1982, he was reprimanded by the White House. Addressing a conference of Latin American buiness and political leaders in Miami last week, Deputy Secretary of State Kenneth W. Dam charged that right-wing repression only fosters the kind of revolution that rightists want...