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Chris Miller and Scott Anderso
CBS sports booth. Keven Butle
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By MELINDA WALDROP
Staff Writer
Big brown canvas tents filled
Greene Street Monday and
Tuesday as voices boomed through
microphones and game show
buzzers bleeped on and off.
Prizes from T-shirts to cars were
up for grabs as the CBS College
Tour rolled into town.
Tour manager Joe Mercante said
the tour is a promotional marketing
event designed to tout both old and
new CBS shows.
"It's an opportunity for students
to see information about CBS,"
Mercante said.
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premieres
By The Associated Press
The making of "Malcolm X"
inflamed naysayers, frustrated a
studio, gratified merchandisers,
worried police and transfixed the
media. All that remains is the only
important test: pleasing moviegoers.
After months of nonstop hype
and director Spike Lee's one-man
publicity blitz, the epic-length film
about the slain black activist
arrives today in about i,zuu tneaters
nationwide.
If the three-hour, 21-minute
"Malcolm X" does not debut
strongly, it almost surely will be
swept aside. It faces stiff competition
from "Bram Stoker's
Dracula," which set box-office
records its opening weekend, and
the upcoming "Home Alone 2:
Lost in New York" and "The
Bodyguard."
One thing is certain: the $42
million "Malcolm X" is among
this year's most anticipated releases.
Based on "The Autobiography
of Malcolm X," the film took 26
years coming to the screen.
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Washington stars as the charismatic
civil rights leader whose life
story is largely unfamiliar to millions
of Americans.
"Some people know part of his
life, but not the real meaning,"
said Jasmond Anderson, a senior
at Dallas' Lincoln High School.
Tobias Price, 17, who lives in
St. Louis, always wears at least
one article of clothing marked
with Malcolm's X. He plans to
wait in line as long as it takes to
see "Malcolm X" on opening
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"I'm counting on the movie to
show me what was going through
his head, what kind of man he
was, how did he do things and
how he fired up so many people,"
Price said.
Malcolm X evolved from a
drug abuser, petty thief and convict
into a disciple of the Nation
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The featured attractions ranged most
from old CBS favorites, such as teams
[ simulations of the game shows neon
I "The Price Is Right" and "Family At
Feud," to previews of Tri-Star watcl
, Pictures' newest movie releases, dies ;
like "Hero" and "Dracula " lines.
Some shows were advertised by stude
promotional pictures at the infor- answ<
mation desk. These included CBS' "It
newer shows like "Bob!," "The don't
Golden Palace" and "Picket fun,"
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Other shows involved student "T1
participation. popul
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after a pilgrimage to Mecca, he
moderated his views, split with the
Nation of Islam and founded the
Organization for Afro-American
Unity in 1964.
He was assassinated by Nation
of Islam followers at a 1965
Harlem rally. He was 39.
Warner Bros, hopes its multimillion-dollar
marketing campaign
will broaden the film's appeal to
audiences of all races. The studio
says the film's length, almost
twice the average movie, means it
can be shown only three times a
day, compared to five showings
daily for most titles.
Robert Friedman, head of marketing
for producer Warner Bros.,
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as well as the studio's 1991
release "JFK," another lengthy
epic which eventually earned
$70.3 million at North American I
"Malcolm X" was enveloped in
controversy ever since Lee, who
directred "Do the Right Thing" I
and "Jungle Fever," replaced I
Norman Jewison two years ago as *J;i
the film's director.
Warner Bros, clashed with Lee
repeatedly over the film's budget,
content, running time and legal
clearances.
All the while, apparel and merchandise
bearing the X logo flew
out of stores, turning millions of
young people into walking adver- , (
tisements.
Marvin Worth, the film's producer,
is hopeful audiences will
embrace the film and not greet its .
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"I'm concerned, but I don't Womt
think this film is inflammatory or
provoking to violence at all,"
Worth said.
Warner Bros, is providing additional
security to theaters requesting
it, and several multiplexes will
use additional screens to accommodate
overflow audiences.
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painter's caps. The "Shoot-Out"
the "Comedy Quiz," students Course" tents offe
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and tried to fill in the punch "It made you use
"Northern Adventure" gave to win, like eye-hani
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Assistant Carolina! Editor
Award-winning author
, r | Naylor read from her lastej
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in the Law Center to a a
: JZ1 about 400 people.
Naylor has written foui
%Ml about the lives of A
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American women, includin
Women of Brewster Place,'
won the American Book Av
best first novel. The boo
became a television miniseri
USC English professor
Feelings introduced Is
describing her as first "a rea
a student of literature." F
and Naylor were classmates
graduate school.
I' Naylor researched and
much of her third novel,
Day," in Beaufort. "Mam;
was set in a fictional island
South Carolina coast, and tl
includes South Carolina fol
ing lore and references to
Carolina characters like wit
tor, Dr. Buzzard.
Naylor told the audience I
is a private person and 1
return the Sea Islands to
Before she began the readi
warned the audience abc
book, "It is 1948. We have i
covered political correctness
Naylor read three sectior
"Bailey's Cafe." The fir
about Bailey himself, the o\
the cafe. The next two wer
Esther and Jessie, who li
H Eve's, the boarding house/
down the street. The novel
on this house and the six
who live there.
When Naylor read Esther'
PjjjHH ter, the audience seemed c;
BP ed. Some were leaning fc
HP*1". with their chins in their
visualizing Esther's story
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tunity to CBS cups and T-shirts, there were
a great higher stakes to be found,
ike home According to Mercante, a student
t "Studio only had to "just get on line" to
in their register to win a walk-on part on
la. the CBS soap opera "The Young
-h toured and the Restless" or a Ford Escort
LX.
actino "
you ?ot Mercante estimated about 4,000
students would stop by and said
>, ^or^oe tf131 all of them could win some
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thing, if nothing but a piece of
. . candy."
articipate
mally be "There's always something they
can walk away with," Mercante
3k home said.
at law center
Eve's house, with the shutters
closed.
Gloria "You can take a deeP breath,"
>t book, Naylor advised after she read the
iy night chapter. "Esther does that to you
owd?of sometiipes. She tightens your
chest."
books After the audience sighed,
frican- Naylor prepared to read about
io "The Jessie. "And she's no Esther," she
' which warned.
vard for Jessie was a woman who grew
?k later UP on toe docks around Manhattan
es Island. She was a tough woman
Dianne who married into a prominent fam"Jaylor,
ity *n toe middle-class section of
ider and Harlem called Sugar Hill. The
'eelings audience laughed throughout the
at Yale st?ry of how Jessie taught her husband
to appreciate soul food,
wrote After the reading, Naylor
"Mama answered questions from the audia
Day" ence on ^er screenplays and how
off the writing has changed her life.
ie book Afterwards, the fans lined up to
k heal- buy C0Pies of "Bailey's Cafe" and
t South get them signed,
ch doc toe span of 10 years, Naylor,
in addition to "Brewster Place,"
, . "Bailey's Cafe" and "Mama Day,"
.,a ,S e has written Linden Hills.
1 0 Characters from each of these
rp loy
, * books overlap into others, for
no she i
example, a character from
>ut the "Brewster Place" hails from
not dis- "Ljnden Hills," and one of the
main characters in "Mama Day" is
is from i n - *i . t r
pypjj in oauey s v_aie.
st was Naylor decided to write a quartet
vner of 0f books as a foundation for her lite
about erary career because of the warnved
at ings she had received about onebrothel
book authors. Naylor said she
focuses believes many of one-book authors
women fear a second book or get so
wrapped up in themselves that they
s chap- become too busy for the second
aptivat- book.
>rward, Because she has already cornhands,
pleted the quartet, she considers
of 12 herself to be a true writer.
Muci & us noi your perception or me
;n after that counts. It is my perception of
look at me that counts. That's why in 1992
look at I walk a little taller, because I'm a
nent of writer now."
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