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Netwomen from Rollins, Clemson, Princeton, the University of North Carolina, and Texas are in town to compete with ECAC champion Harvard squad in one of the nation's most talent-laden fall tournaments.
Jewison is white, but he has trudged this weary road before: in 1967 he directed In the Heat of the Night, a crackling confrontation between black man and redneck that won an Oscar for Best Picture. A Soldier's Story is his tautest, funniest, bitterest work since then, with...
There is a suggestion of man meeting role here. A Soldier's Story looks like an act of love for everyone involved-including Jewison, who peddled the project to three studios before Columbia Pictures bought it on the condition that the director work for free instead of receiving his...
Compare Rollins with Eddie Murphy or Richard Pryor, and the new ghettoizing of black stars is immediately apparent. Murphy and Pryor have parlayed their popularity into lucrative deals with the major studios, but they are basically comics: hip new models of the vaudeville Negro. "I don't think the...
A similar problem faces Howard E. Rollins, Jr., best known for his Oscar-nominated role in "Ragtime", who gives a fairly convincing, though not sufficiently stirring performance as Davenport. Clad in military khakis and MacArthur-style mirror sunglasses, Rollins is appropriately impressive as the figure who inspires both white hostility...