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...Hearst family and also coordinated bureau coverage. Correspondent John Austin visited the scenes where the arrests were made and also filed a running chronology of events. Stringer Paul Ciotti maintained an almost constant vigil on the street near the scene of the arrests. Los Angeles Bureau Chief Jess Cook grabbed a plane to San Francisco as soon as he heard the news. "You deserve a little luck in this business," he says. "Who should be on the same plane but Catherine Hearst?" As soon as the seat-belt sign went off, Cook conducted a leisurely interview with Patty...
LANGSTON HUGHES created Jess B. Simple in his newspaper column in the Chicago Defender in the 1940's. Posing behind a mantle of slow-witted stubbornness. Simple talks his way through barrooms and street corners, can of beer in hand, fashioning a glittering slice of Harlem life with his words. Hughes was fascinated with Harlem, and in Simple's tales he highlights his dreamy view of Harlem, a city-within-a-city where black culture reigns and black people share their trouble with laughter. Fiercely proud of blackness, Simple mixes an innocent wonder at the strange cruelty of the segregated...
Minnie Johnson (Darlene Johnson), Jess's cousin, leads this world of Harlem night life, cursing, dancing, living on what she can get from her many male friends--"He who lives there must share," Jess says of her apartment. Minnie plays her part to the full, roaring around her apartment in her torn bathrobe, yelling at the neighbors, taking drinks from willing men. She is no match for Jess's wife. Joyce (Tonya Davis), a flat character given little life in this performance Joyce is an ambiguous figure in the Simple stories: a proud member of the Arts and Letters Club...
...skill of John Kirkwood's direction is apparent in the timing, humor and vitality of the show, especially in the bar scenes, when a brilliant supporting cast of Harlem characters continually brings the house down. Don Gillespie as Henry, Minnie's boyfriend; Sary Guinier as Lynn Clarisse, another of Jess's cousins; and Paul Ruffins as Brandon, a drunk in the bar, are particularly fine...
Declaring that the "liberalism of the '60s is dead," Brown emphasizes the failure of many great-expectations programs. In an interview with TIME Correspondent Jess Cook, Brown said: "The fact that there's a problem doesn't mean that more government will make it better. It might make it worse. The interventionism that we've seen in our society is analogous to Viet Nam. With our money, power and genius, we thought that we could make the people over there be like us. Then we did the same thing to our cities. When problems...