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...took until now for the National Enquirer to break its story, given the rumors going around even before Ashley Stanford was born 20 months ago. Everybody who was anybody in black political circles had heard reports of a scene that could have come straight out of a Terry McMillan novel: it was said that Jackie, Jackson's wife of 38 years, had barged into his office and upbraided Stanford for getting pregnant in order to "trap" her husband. Or that Jackson was sleeping at the home of his son, Chicago Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr., because Jackie had kicked...
Before Terry McMillan's Waiting to Exhale, there was her Disappearing Acts. Can ambitious singer Zora (Sanaa Lathan) find love with Franklin, the construction worker who fixed up her gorgeous Brooklyn brownstone? Since the soft-hearted hardhat is a statue-buff Wesley Snipes, well, three guesses. As money and personality troubles set in, however, it turns out Zora exhaled too soon. Like many renovations, Acts is most attractive on its glossy surface; too often the subtext crashes clumsily through the drywall. But the leads do hammer charismatic performances out of the material...
Sage's closing is just one more sign that the Square is no longer as much of a residential area, McMillan says...
...creeping commercialization of the Square is no longer creeping, it's galloping," McMillan says. "As operations like Sprint replace stores that sell everyday necessities, I think it will start to affect real estate values...
Sage says he has made an effort to thank the customers like McMillan who have, over the years, become his friends. He knows that his store--and its seeming ability to withstand the changes in the Square--has become quite important to many of them. But not enough to keep him in business...