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...some 30 black actors, directors and playwrights, storm the U.S. with urgent bulletins from the townships of their native South Africa. Last week Asinamali! (Zulu for "we have no money") opened the first festival of black South African drama ever to play outside its homeland. Mbongeni Ngema's group portrait of five prisoners, together with four other plays of protest, will run for four weeks in New York City and Washington. The series is entitled Woza Afrika! (Rise Up, Africa!), and the exclamation point is not redundant. Mixing shouts of rage with eruptions of folkloric exuberance, the guerrilla drama aims...
Whatever way he did it -- and he certainly seems to have done it -- Author Kitty Kelley has written about it her way. His Way: The Unauthorized Biography of Frank Sinatra is not yet in bookstores, and Kelley's unflinching portrait of the swaggering singer, said to be based on more than 800 interviews, is already causing a sensation. In PEOPLE magazine excerpts last week and this, % Kelley portrays Ol' Blue Eyes as a score-keeping Lothario whose list of discarded leading ladies includes Elizabeth Taylor, Judy Garland, Lauren Bacall, Victoria Principal and Natalie Wood. Sinatra, who tried unsuccessfully to stop...
...taker of lives. To a nation that espouses self-reliance, drug dependence has emerged as the dark side of the American character, the price of freedom to fail. It is as if America, so vain and self-consciously fit, has looked upon itself and suddenly seen the hideously consumptive portrait of Dorian Gray...
...self-portrait that Wilson provides is hardly flattering -- he often appears waspish, rude, disagreeable -- but he makes up for it to some extent by being fully aware of his faults. At one point he reminds himself: "Don't talk all the time. It is an error to suppose that other people can have nothing interesting to say." At another, while dining in a Parisian cafe with his fourth wife, Elena, he sees himself in a wall mirror and "was horrified at the contrast between my big-bellied person and my red and swollen face, with a not too pleasant expression...
...Harvard: A Video Portrait," an hour-longdocumentary about higher education at Harvard,will be presented today at 7 p.m. on WNEV-TV,Channel 7, in honor of the 350th. The showcombines film clips from the Harvard Archives andfresh interviews with some current highereducation notables at Harvard and other Harvardbigwigs such as Harvard President Derek C. Bok,Harvard's Agassiz Professor of Geology Stephen J.Gould and Harvard's Boylston Professor of Oratoryand Rhetoric Seamus Heaney. Happy 350th to Harvardand everyone else and may higher education prosperat Harvard for at least 350 more years...