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...much hyped movie, "Waiting to Exhale" is based on the best-selling, and better written, novel by Terry McMillan. The movie's central characters are four black women trying to eke out a living for themselves in Scottsdale, Arizona: Savannah (Whitney Houston), Bernadine (Angela Bassett), Gloria(Loretta Devine) and Robin (Lela Rochon). Also featured are big-screen talents Wesley Snipes, who plays Bernadine's post-marital love interest, and Gregory Hines, who plays Marvin, Gloria's last chance at romance...
...preaches Savannah's mother, and this seems to be the moral each woman learns from the crises that befall her in the course of the movie. From Robin forlornly talking to her dog about her good-for-nothing boyfriend Russell, (played as brilliantly as you would expect by the statue-actor from Madonna's "Like A Prayer" video) to Bernadine getting dumped by her husband for his white secretary, the movie serves as a warning to black women everywhere that "Good men are hard to find...
...region for decades, and only with American help is there any possibility of peace. The U.S. is a nation of the highest individual and corporate privilege, and we have the most responsibility. We stand for peace, and we will not allow slaughter to go unchecked. JULIA MIKELL Savannah, Georgia Via E-mail
...take that money home to my mother, and that's how we'd eat that night." While other boys in the project turned to drugs and crime, Marshall pursued better jobs: delivering newspapers, washing dishes, cooking in a local restaurant. All the while he maintained a 3.8 average in Savannah's newly desegregated schools, eventually earning the scholarships that would take him to Emory. There were triumphs--and put-downs. One year Marshall's middle-school Quiz Bowl team won a contest focusing on drugs and alcohol. Says he: "After we won--and believe me, it was sort of amazing...
After Emory, Marshall wants to go home to the coastal slums of Savannah to try to improve the lives of the city's foundering African Americans. He has no delusions that he can wipe out the hunger and poverty that haunted his own youth; his attempt last summer to initiate a modest on-the-job-training program for inner-city youths died in the local Chamber of Commerce. He feels scorn for blacks who flee poverty only to forget those they left behind. "[Supreme Court Justice] Clarence Thomas talks about being from Pinpoint, a really rundown area of Savannah...