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HOLLYWOOD BEAT-Publicity hassle looms% 0 •for Dot Drandridge film. .. By BILL LANE____HOLLYWOOD ' - Thi - Stapl* Singtra, after their big press party at the Con-tury Plaza here, left for British Columbia for a show tour, and Ena Hartman, reportedly signed 10 play Dorothy Dandridge in Earl Mill** version of the -• Dandridge etory oc film, flew off to Mexico.The Mills book, by the way, is getting serious discussion in law offices here. It was published by Holloway House, the California firm which published “Pimp” and other books by Iceberg Slim.Seems the book carries a whole page photo of L. A. Sentinel society editor Jessie Mae Beavers, as a• happy bride (seme halcyon years ago;, surrounded by her bridesmaids, one of whom was the late Dorothy Dandridge. _ ,Jessie Mae says nobody, but nobody, sought nor received .from her permission to use the photo, and It was never published anywhere else but in her weddingalbum: -'• Della Reese -opening at Lofy’s. in her Detroit home-, town Thursday, and cutting a new album. Her ex boyfriend Bobby Bryant opened at the Playboy here.• • »Belafonte’s readying three concerts for Gary's• Mayor. Hatcher in.• April.. .To aid his cam*. paign. .• .Bernie Casey,-1 recovering from a foot cut received backstage at the Taper Forum, laying his ‘'Metamorphoses” might goto Broadway.Diana Ross’ TV special airs on ABC on April18.. .Governors of 30 states, VP Agnew and many stars will be on hand for Joe Louis’ testimonial in Las Vegas May14.. .Wayne Cochran, James Brown’s white-haired imitator, back singing in Vegas after his throat operation.Brenda Sykes and Fred Williamson are still friends, th.ough strained; after Fred's words about Case of womanhood on the David Frost show., .The 5th Dint e n s i o n recorded their newest Bell album at Caesars Palace last week.• • •Two hardbitten newsmen took sick watching thte prevue at MGM of the jol-t i n g new movie ‘‘The Bodv.” The sex scene (in* •A■Brend* Sykes she didn’t Ilk* tht crackfull) in the film could not have been it. Some say it was the closeup, color birth scene. The also close interracial nude, scenes are bound to make ^ lot of bigots bigoter. Vanessa Redgrave narrates them o-v i e which has just opened in L.A. and NYC. It beats ’em all!I • tAnd on two successive nights, March 8 and 9, NBC aired its sensational three-hour feature film, “Vanished,” in which Robert Hooks ii. spectacular, as an FBI man and Richard Wid* mark as the President of the U.S.Robert (Dr. Welby) Young Is unbelievable as a Southern Senator, and nobody will be without praises for Don Pedro Colley as Mercurio and Denny Miller as Toubo. At the din-t Ena Hartman she's ‘Dorothy Dandridge*ner prevue the other night we heard actor Anthony Quinn tell Young: “You were incredibly outstanding, and Bob Hooks was beautiful!”-
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Baltimore Afro American
Baltimore, Maryland, US
Tue, Mar 09, 1971
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