Word: winfield
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Angeles ghetto. While the story explores the various intricacies of this environment (the roof-tops, the asphalt basketball courts and the classrooms), it is primarily a study of the relationship that builds between the boy, Benji (played by Larry Scott) and his stepfather, Butler (Paul Winfield...
Benjie (Larry Scott) is a black kid, 13 years old, living in Watts, showing talent in school and resentment at home. The problem is that his father has run off and his mother (Cicely Tyson) is living with a man (Paul Winfield) whose presence is upsetting to the boy. Up to a point, this is to be expected. What is harder to understand is why this stepfather figure so powerfully distresses the child, since, despite the man's lack of legal status in the household, he is a paragon-hard working, loving, ever eager to reach...
...Center for Social Change, headed by Coretta King. Among the 2,000 present: U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young, New York City Mayor Abe Beame and New York Governor Hugh Carey. The program, which included a reading of Martin Jr.'s famous "I Have a Dream" speech by Actor Paul Winfield, ended with an all-embracing finale-the civil rights anthem We Shall Overcome sung in French, Russian, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese and English...
Playing Martin Luther King Jr. would be a challenge for any actor, but for Paul Winfield (Sounder, Hustle) it is something more: the repayment of a debt. "If not for Martin," he says, "I doubt I would have been able to make a success of acting. He raised black people's aspirations and changed white folks' opinions." Winfield co-stars with Cicely Tyson (as Coretta) and Ossie Davis (as Martin Luther King Sr.) in NBC'S two-part special on King scheduled to air Nov. 6 and 7. Although the 1965 Selma civil rights march...
Carter appeared buoyant after returning to Winfield House from the dinner. "I could see a great confidence among the leaders about the future of democratic society," he told newsmen. The President even seemed a bit awed by the company he was keeping-a world away from Plains, Ga. Said he: "I was impressed with the great experience that the other leaders have in economics, which I didn't have." Could it be that he, of all people, had an inferiority complex? Confessed Carter: "Well, I do-on economics...