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Myths about homelessnessfActor Harewoodhopes ABC filmwill open mindsBy JERRY BUCK The Associated PressLOS ANGELES - Dorian Harewood predicts that the ABC Theater presentation of “God Bless the Child is going to shatter some myths about the homeless The two-hour movie tells the story of a desperate young mother trapped in poverty and an Outreach worker who tries to help her and her young daughter It’s a myth that the majority of the poor and homeless are lazy and don’t want to work and want to take advantage of the welfare system, he said The fact is that most of them do want To work, and those who are working are being paid at a sub-poverty level.“It's a myth that the majority of the homeless are minorities. The fact is most are white That should shake up people into solving this problem, Harewood stars as Calvin Reid, the Outreach worker Mare Winningham is the young Appalachian mother, Theresa, and Grace Johnson is Hilary, her daughter. Dennis Nemec wrote the screenplay and Larry' Eli-kann directed on location in Montre-ABC will telecast the movie on Monday.My character was inspired by a Teal Outreach worker, Otis Woodard in St. Louis, said Harewood. He’s a very special guy who’s done a lot for Ihe homeless.J The story’s set in an unspecified Midwestern city. It follows the tribulations of the young Appalachian woman and her daughter, who through no fault of their own, are in a pownward spiral of poverty. It’s a cycle that leaves her homeless and Without much prospect of improvement, Harewood said.! Harewood notes that many programs set up in the 1960s and ’70s to aid the poor have been scaled down.• »Pboto by Associated PfeasDorian Harewood plays Outreach worker Calvin Reid in the ABC Theater presentation of “God Bless the Child,” to airMonday, March 21.This film doesn’t make a political statement, he said, but it does make the statement that the government has got to become involved Children are our greatest resource and too many are growing up malnourished. Is it any wonder that we’ve fallen behind the rest of the world in educating our children^Harewood is involved with several programs that help people in need, among them LIFE (Love Is FeedingEveryone) andCHIP-IN (CommunityHousing Involving People In Need) By the time the movie goes on the air. Harewood expects to be well into the filming of a pilot for ABC called Mama’s Boys. He and Perry King star as half-brothers who inherit an investigative newspaper.“Perry and I are good friends and we’re looking forward to working together again. he said. The movie Foster and Laurie’ in 1975 was ouronly time to work together. They wanted to make a series out of that, strange as it seems, since we were both assassinated (they played police officers). : -But the chemistry between us isgood. We didn't want to do that as a series, but we have been wanting to do something together for a long time.The idea for the series came from Harewood's wife, actress Ann McCurry, and her friend, Louise Haven. I met Ann when we did one musical in New York and we started dating when we did another, he said. Louise was in ‘General Hospital' ’’ The concept is of two half-brothers, one white, one black, who inherit the newspaper and are forced to settle their differences to keep it running. William Blinn (“Brian's Song,’’ “Roots) wrote the screenplay.The last vear or so has been extremely busv for Harewood. He starred in Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket, and played the title role in the TV movie “Guilty of Innocence: The Lenell Geter Story.”tr iHe also played a television reporter inthe ABC miniseries Amerika.Harewood said he also got back to singing, which had been his original goal He has an album coming out in April called Love Will Stop Calling.” “It's RB, with some rock,” he said. * I hate labeling it.
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