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...four 90-minute episodes, this documentary attempts to tell the story of slavery from 1619, when a ship carrying a cargo of Africans arrived at Jamestown, to the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860. The material is inherently fascinating, and overall the producers have done a fine job of presenting it, combining historical images, impressionistic re-enactments, interviews with historians and voice-over readings of letters and diaries (the narration is spoken by Angela Bassett). If there's a quibble, it's that the re-enactments, done in soft-focus and slow motion, are overused, and one wishes...
...grew up in Jamestown, N.Y., where her father, an electrician, died when she was just three. At 15 she began making forays to New York City to try to break into show business. She had little luck as an actress but worked as a model before moving to Hollywood in 1933 for a part in the chorus of Roman Scandals. Strikingly pretty, with chestnut hair dyed blond (until MGM hairdressers, seeking a more distinctive look, turned it red in 1942), she landed bit parts in B movies and moved up to classy fare like Stage Door, in which she held...
...minorities and the underprivileged. I will remember Kennedy as a man who could have lived the life of an idle rich person but chose instead the path of public service. And I will remember him as a President who died in the service of his country. RUTH MELHEIM BRUBAKKEN Jamestown...
...what horrifies parents and health educators in Chautauqua, who say safe-sex information is widely distributed in the area. As clinics were flooded with young people seeking HIV tests in recent days and an AIDS-education seminar drew hundreds, many, like Sue Genco, a Jamestown mother of three, came to see the Williams case as "our wake-up call...
...Williams' future, Chautauqua prosecutors plan to charge him with first-degree assault in the cases of those who contracted HIV from him. But that may do little to heal the trauma he has inflicted on circles of Jamestown youth. The hope offered by new AIDS treatments still hasn't entered their thinking. "There's nothing to do now," says Danielle Rapp, 18, "but watch your friends...