BARRY WHITE DEAD AT 58 Soul hits seduced millions: Barry White is survived by eight children and his companion, Catherine Denton.Graphic: THE HITS* “Never Never Gonna Give Ya Up," 1973 * "Can't Get Enough of Your Love Babe," 1974 * "You're The First, The Last, My Everthi g," 1974 * and "Love Serenade." Barry White is pictured above in earlier days with Soul Singer: Gladys Knight. ; Photo M' Voice Archives % At a time when everybody and their brother is coming out with a CD it is good to hear someone who will not turn out to be a one hit wonder. With the contributions of the world re- hs LF ee nowned Dorothy Norwood, and the musical talents of Tommie ‘ Vl 0 l Ly Davis Jr. will prove to make this a collectors item. This is one ” that you can definitely add to your music library, Davis Michael Adams op ° Program Director Live for WOOW Joy 1340AM Radio - Gregory Hines dies at 57 By DAVID HINCKLEY -W MDAILY NEWS STAFF ey elllinagh Seale Sunday, August 10th, 2003 His death at his Los Angeles home stunned the tap-dancing world and many of those close to him. “Nobody knew he was sick," his longtime representative Allen Eichhorn said yesterday. "People are horrified. We all thought he was just busy, as he usually was, with his projects." Roi Myers, 83, one of the last old-time tap dancers, called the news of Hines’ death "shocking. . . . [But] it was typical. He didn't want any- one fussing over him." New Yorkers had expected Hines in town last month for the annual Tap City festival but ‘he said he was busy with a film. There were few areas of entertainment in which Hines was not busy, from emceeing the 2002 Tony Awards with Bernadette Peters to singing Cannon GETTY with Luther Vandross. As an all-around entertainer, he was often com- with Sammy Davis Jr. | ise from director . : "He was the last of a kind of immaculate performer - singer, dancer, actor and personality," said George C. Wolfe, who directed him in “Jelly's Last Jam" on Broadway. "He knew how-to command." | “His heart and soul went into everything he did," said Peters. "He had amazing creativity.” Born in Brooklyn on Valentine's Day 1946, Hines was dancing on stage at age 4. When he 8, he played two weeks at the Apollo with his brother and father He did stunning work for the 1984 film "The Cotton Club," though most of his dances were cut, and he won a Tony for “Jelly's Last Jam" (1992) after being nominated for "Comin' Uptown" (1979) and "Sophisticated -Ladies" (1981). Had sitcom in '70s His movie credits included "White Nights” (1985) with Mikhail Baryshnikov, and on TV he had his own sitcom, "The Gregory Hines Show" (1997), and a recurring role on NBC's "Willand Grace." He won several Emmy nominations, including for the Bill Robinson movie "Bojangles" on Showtime (1999). a His decade-long struggle to film ” jangles” reflected his passion for tap. "The story of his [Robinson's] life has to be told," Hines said. "The rest of us all walk a trail he blazed." Hines linked old-time hoofers like his idol Harold Nicholas to newcomers like Savion Glover, a protege. The two became close, and Hines would joke that in competitions, "Sometimes | have to let the kid win." A well-spoken, self-effacing man with a warm manner and eyes that could flit from mischievous to basset-hound- sad, Hines had a complex, on-and-off relationship with his former dancing partner and brother, Maurice. At Syivia's uber in Harlem, where he often ate, Tykeysha Keitt, 32, of Queens recalled seeing him at the Apollo, "If you a dance alongside Sammy Davis Jr., you're wonderful,” she said. "I'm devastated." Hines is survived by his fiancee, Negrita Jayde, his father Maurice Sr., his brother, his daughter Daria, his son Zach and his stepdaughter Jessica. ; Private services will be held in Los Angeles. A public memorial is expected later. With Amy Sacks Career highlights Sta "Jelly Last Jam,” 1992 "Sophisticated Ladies," 198 | “Comin' Uptown," 1979 "Eubie!" 1978 "The Girl in Pink Tights,” 1954 Film et You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her," 2001 “The Preacher's Wife,” 1996 "Waiting to Exhale," 1995 “Renaissance Man," 1994 "A Rage in Harlem," 199| "Tap," 1989 “Running Scared," 1986 “White Nights," 1985 "The Cotton Club," 1984 “History of the World: Part 1," 1981 TV “Boe eae: Ope h.! es," . we, "Wi " 1998 "The Hines Show," 1997 "Gregory Hines: Tap Dance in America,” 1989 “Motown Returns to the Apollo," 1985 "I Love Liberty,” 1982 The Associated Press Tama GETTY te AUGUST 2003 Mr David L. Lawrence Appointed _ General Manager Hamilton Inn & Conference Center of ... Greenville N.C. 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We wish him much happiness in his retirement, photo by Jim Rouse Logan Council, Shandell Jones, and Valencia Speight (from left to right), Lola Ausby representing Dominion North Carolina Power is pictured with the Pitt County delegates, PAGE 11 PAGE 12 Statue of uniter is dividi By JERRY ALLEGOOD AND JOANNA KAKISSIS, Staff Writers News & Observer ROCKY MOUNT - The memo- rial to Martin Luther King Jr. draws the wees in he ac oser ok, inviting a stroll up a gentle hill toa black stone fountain and a curved path of inscribed stones winding around to a bronze statue of the Civil Rights leader at the hilltop. . . The gaze goes to the statue of a man standing, his arms folded across his chest, his head turned slightly to the left. He holds a pen in his right hand and looks as if he is in deep in thought. His face is familiar to millions. Or is it??77927? > No,say dozens of Rocky Mount residents who complain that the _ larger- than-life-size sculpture by Illinois artist Erik Blome not resemble King. "it doesn't look like him," said Betty Fentress of Rocky Mount after taking a close look one afternoon last week. "it would be : nice if it resembled him a little more." Critics vant someone to do cosmetic sculpting-surgery on the face. Some want to scrap the statue entirely. Others want to send it back to Blome. The strong negative reaction to the public art prompted the city council to postpone plans for a: dedication ceremony for the park. And the debate has swirled into a coniroversy that has stunned Blome, a well-known sculptor educated at Boston University and at the Royal College of Arts in London. Blome's boon solid: He nas uced praised sculptures o: mous Americans, including historic black figures such as Rosa Parks, George Washington Carver, Thurgood Marshall and Duke Ellington . In 1998, he also sculpted a 9.5-foot bronze statue of King for Milwaukee. That statue shows King with his right hand outstretched, his face brimming with the emotion he showed during his famous : The sculpture [in Rocky Mount] looks like him, if you look at it with an observant, objective eye," Blome said. "This is one son's personal expression of Dr. Marft 1 Luther King Jr. It doesn't matter who 1, and where 1, am from ang what class | come from. None of that matters because Martin Luther King means something to everyone. Just because it doesn't look like the vision in someone's head doesn't mean it is not a true expression." A special connection The statue is the centerpiece of a 28.5-acre park on the north side of town that includes a play- gone, picnic pape mches, Planning for a to honor King began in the early Rocky Mount claims a special connection to’ King because he gave an early version of his "I Have a Dream" speech at a local high school in November 1962, months before a Washington ‘ oration made the words famous, The city's human relations de- partment has a recording of the speech that is played on special Occasions. - Although the Rocky Mount memorial makes no reference to King's appearan ' w ve in the city, it Prominently displays excerpts from the speech in which King - @loquently characterized _ his n for racial harmony. Three ‘stones are inscribed with a prophetic e from King's in Memphis, Tenn., on a 3, 1968, the last one of his ife. “7 " T've looked over, and I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we asa people will get to the promised land. And I'm happy tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man." He was killed by an assassin the next day. Clayborne Carson, director of the Martin Luther King Papers Project: at Stanford University, said the Rocky Mount gathering was one of the earliest presenta- tions of the "Dream" which King’ repeated in several Places before Washington. It is significant, he said, because the is considered one of the eatest of the century, ing’s image is also among the most recognizable, said Carson, and that makes an artists task difficuft. He recalled similar concerns about a likeness of King when a statue was unveiled in pashington. "There was kind of a gasp because people didn't like it," Carson said. Open discussion Rocky Mount Mayor Fred Turnage, who has served for 30 years, says he is perplexed by the uproar over the statue because he sees the park as a maior accomplishment in race iz tions for this city of 58,000. - The city already paid the artist $55,800 for the work, which was installed last month. So the mayor has appointed a commit- tee to sort out. the issue . "I frankly don't know what we can do," Turnage said. "I'm not an artist. Can you go back and do part of it? I don! know." No one objected to the statue initially, city officials said. And ome said he received only Positive comments about the work-in-progress: the city a proved his drawings of the Statue, and several Rocky Mount residents praiseda small mode of the statue that Blome pre- sented at a community event. "It was always open for com- ment, all along,’ Blome said. “The people who are so vocal now and Say it should be taken had every opportunity to take part in the process, and they did not. It's a cheap shot.” Statue supporters say the figure ould be considered as‘ an artists conception, not a photo- ic Appbarairtey and that it properly honors King's spirit. But it won't do for hee for whom King’s image is as clear as his orations. Rocky Mount resident Henry V. Davis said the whole memorial, including the statue, should Clearly invoke King's image. Davis said he didn't like the pose because it looks like the person was arrogant. . Lillie Solide , a spokeswoman for a community group called | Voices for Effective Change, said it's important that the statue look like King so that children who visit the park will know how he looked. "Nobody can identify that statue,” she said. “in order to honor him, it should look like him." .- Fentress, who was relaxing at the park Wednesday afternoon, said she thought the statue was nice enough, "they just need to redo his face." "His face is round and flat," she said, referring to the image on the hill. "Dr. King's face is kind of an oval shape." AUGUST 2003 sounded off in letters and calls to the editor of The Rocky Mount Telegram, the local newspaper. A few, which the mayor describes as extremists, have complained that they don't feel there. should be a statue at all. - Turnage said he hoped the outcome will eventually bring together in the spirit o the man who preached harmony. "My goal is that we don't take something that has been so meaningful," he said, "and turn it into something divisive." Critics’ and defenders have anienamimemees “>. Little Willie Center Wen Too" THE PRESENT / . * vg > / ‘807 West Martin Luther King Jr. Drive We Ne cd Hel ) Yoo! CRISIS } PO Box 20191 Tete de a Sarcomlosts Suttercr ar it vou wee a tiesatih protesssomsh sn: , Ve, jf Greenville, NC 27836 - — Wold ke tote tinvolsed in the PevelOpmense of ci eda og | SN ot (252) 752-9083 SKE FOTOS SE CPORT OROUP, ta eree i wy. 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