Word: lela
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Glenn had ended her relationship with Kenney and moved from New Hampshire to Lowell about two months ago, according to godmother Lela Boykins Hall...
BORN: Sept. 16, 1963, Chicago EDUCATION: State Technical Institute at Memphis, A.A., 1991; LeMoyne-Owen College, B.A., 1996 FAMILY: Wife, Lela; two children RELIGION: Christian MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Computer-operations supervisor POLITICAL CAREER: Republican nominee for U.S. House, 1994 ADDRESS: 574 South Cooper, Memphis...
...give the film the old Grisham urgency, scripters William Goldman and Chris Reese add a pretty black woman (Lela Rochon) as Adam's helper, a conspiracy of old white guys, and an assassin who gets his due. All this proves is that the filmmakers couldn't trust in the potency of two good actors bringing life to a chat on death...
...indication that White has not grasped a few bottom-line realities in the motion-picture industry. Waiting to Exhale is about money, and Hollywood is a bottom-line town. That is why box-office receipts are kept track of so closely. When African-American talents such as Loretta Devine, Lela Rochon, director Forest Whitaker and author Terry McMillan become common household names like Madonna, Demi Moore, Ron Howard and Michael Crichton, then Hollywood will, I hope, produce more films that explore African-American life. Yes, ultimately some of these movies will be slick Hollywood trash. But only then will African...
...struggling welfare mama, sassy street-corner "ho" or domineering matriarch in sight. Indeed for all the predictable carping from black men about the supposed bashing of their sex in Exhale, it is middle-class black women who take the real beating. Whitney Houston, Angela Bassett, Loretta Devine and Lela Rochon play to a new black female stereotype that is in some ways more damaging than the ones it replaces: the young professional woman who can excel in a demanding job, be a successful single mother and support her aging parent, yet who is abjectly clueless about defending herself from exploitative...