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...into a feel-good sitcom, that's mostly O.K. Waters based his story on a real Baltimore teen TV show of the late 1950s and '60s, and the naive outrage of Hairspray heroine Tracy Turnblad at the show's race discrimination--blacks are relegated to a once-a-month "Negro day"--is satisfying in a storybook, wish-fulfilling way. As the chunky Tracy, Marissa Jaret Winokur is a buoyant fireplug who almost convinces us that she really can outdance everyone else onstage. (Choreographer Jerry Mitchell helps by keeping the chorus kids in check.) And Shaiman's songs (with lyrics...
...author of 18 books, Moynihan first gained national attention in 1965 as an assistant to the Secretary of Labor, when his office released a report called “The Negro Family: The Case for National Action...
...past awards include the Centennial Medal of Harvard’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and the United Negro College Fund’s President’s Award...
...last year with the department, his office released a report entitled “The Negro Family: The Case for National Action,” which analyzed the link between black urban poverty and the breakdown of black family structure...
DIED. JOE BLACK, 78, Brooklyn Dodgers right-hander who was National League Rookie of the Year in 1952, when he became the first black pitcher to win a World Series game; of prostate cancer; in Scottsdale, Ariz. Black was playing in the Negro Leagues when the Dodgers signed Jackie Robinson in 1945. At that point, the Plainfield, N.J., native later told an interviewer, "I started dreaming." He went on to pitch for the Cincinnati Reds and Washington Senators before retiring in 1957 with a career record...