Readers help two teens reach MTV through funds
Washington DC teens Niya Powell and Ayanna Howard gained MTV exposure after readers funded travel to Burbank for auditions. Powell wrote a haunting song about the 1963 Birmingham church bombing victims, while Howard performed it with her. An article in The Washington Post spurred donations when a date for the show wasn’t set.
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Niya Powell
Ayanna Howard
Washington, D.C
MTV
Powell
Bimameham
Ala
Howard
Hey
Burbank
Calif
Washington Post
Virginia promoter sues Snoop Dogg and Death Row Records
Patricia Ann Richardson files suit against Snoop Doggy Dogg Sharita Knight and Death Row Records alleging she was tricked into transporting marijuana. Debbie Boone's You Light Up My Life rises to No 1 in its seventh Hot 100 week. Led Zeppelin debuts in England in 1968. Buddy Holly opens for Elvis in Lubbock in 1955. News service reports.
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Patrcia Ann Richardson
Snoop Doggy Dogg
Sharita Knight
Death Row Records
Debbie Boone
Led Zeppelin
England
Buddy Holly
Elvis
Lubbock
Texas
News Service
Lisahall Releases Is This Real on Reprise Records
NewsLine features Lisahall, led by Lisa Hall, delivering uplifting rock with four members. The new Reprise Records disc Is This Real? is promoted, and listeners can called 472 2111 to hear a cut via Touch Tone keypad entry 6663 to hear Mark Bialczak's Music Notes. Today's tune is Secret.
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Lisa Hall
Lisahall
Reprse Records
Mark Bialczak
A Will of Their Own miniseries on NBC features Guts and Determination
The NBC miniseries based on Shreve's Daughers of the New World follows Amanda Steward and her descendants across 90 years from 1894 Washington to New York, highlighting feminist themes, voting rights, and reproductive issues with stars Lea Thompson and Faye Dunaway. The production, filmed in St Louis, uses a feminist lens and portrays influential women through generations, linking to the 1848 Seneca Falls anniversary event.
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Ashington
Susan Richards Wiis
Elizabeth
Tye
Shreve
David L. Wolper
Mark Wolper
Lynn Roth
Karen Arthur
Arthur
Lea Thompson
Susan Nanus
NBC
David Wolper
Alex Haley
Haley
Mama Flora
CBS
Seneca Falls
St Loui
Faye Dunaway
Margaret Sanger
Diana Scarwid
Crystal Eastman
Soma Braga
Jessie Lopez de la Cruz
Braga
Maria Jermaine
Annie
Washington, DC
Steward
Maria
Retha Aylesworth
Amanda Steward
Thompson
Caroline
Amanda
Wisconsin
William
Washington
Veronica Steward
Mariage
New York City
James MacClaren
Dharma & Greg
Thomas Gibson
Sarah
Veronica
Ellen Burstyn
Wind on Water dismissed as substance light TV debacle
Washington Post television critic Tom Shales savages NBCs new Wind on Water, a Zalman King produced soap opera starring Bo Derek. He mocks its erotic montage heavy style, surfing ranchers, and melodramatic plot about the Connollys fight for their land on a lush Hawaiian island setting. The review notes weak dialogue and sensational visuals as flaws while praising its aesthetics and Derek.
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Fox
Costello
NBC
Zalman King
Bo Derek
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Dallas
Tom Shales
Catic
Washinaton
CNY
One Tough Cop tour halted as Baldwin film pulled
Central New Yorkers will miss seeing Stephen Baldwin in One Tough Cop after Stratosphere Entertainment pulled the film from openings due to poor reviews and weak box office. Baldwin’s family must travel to New York or wait for video release. Opera rises as fastest growing arts audience per NEA survey. Carmen tops popular operas as Syracuse Opera prepares to open with Bizet.
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Stephen Baldwin
Bo Diet
Stratosphere Entertainment
Baldwin
Carol
Beth
Jane
Camillus
New York
National Endowment For the Arts
Syracuse Opera
Bizet
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Frank Wildholm
Houston
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