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...tall tales about underdogs outfoxing their oppressors, or celebrate the likes of "the Great MacDaddy" ("Got a tombstone disposition and a graveyard mind"), who would turn white values on their head by being the "baddest nigger." In the 1960s black militants used such folk heroes as role models; Black Panther Bobby Seale named his son after a famous badman of 19th century ballads named Stagolee, "a bad nigger off the block...
Thursday, October 12: Film: "The Return of the Pink Panther. Davis Lounge, Schneider Center...
After playing the bumbling Inspector Clouseau in five Pink Panther pictures, Peter Sellers is reveling in his role as the dashing playboy King of Ruritania in a new film version of Anthony Hope's 1894 novel, The Prisoner of Zenda. "I rather enjoy being called Your Majesty all day," says Sellers. He is especially pleased at getting the royal treatment from his real-life wife, Lynne Frederick, 24, who co-stars in the film as the king's betrothed, Princess Flavia. So enamored is Sellers of his new cinematic self, a role made memorable by Ronald Colman...
There they were, four of the Chicago Seven, on trial all over again, exactly ten years after their uproarious visit to Chicago for the 1968 Democratic Nation al Convention. Former Black Panther Bobby Scale, originally the eighth member and now a touring lecturer at $1,500 a shot, did not shout interruptions or end up in handcuffs, however. In stead, the only disturbances at the mock trial in Manhattan's Felt Forum last week, written by Candy Author Terry Southern, came from rock bands, nostalgic slide shows of the '60s, impersonators of Richard Nixon and Judge Julius Hoffman...
...Have a modest meal--some medium-priced seafood, perhaps (lobster is okay if you can afford it)--and a carafe of Chablis. Don't overdo it: you should emerge a wee bit sloshed and pleasurably filled. Skip dessert (that's the movie). Then go see Revenge of the Pink Panther. Make sure the movie theater is filled (there's nothing more depressing than watching a Panther movie in an empty theater). What you do afterwards is your own business, but you'll probably feel good and giggly and "mellow," which ain't too bad a way to spend a humid...