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want to know why a black
woman cannot be allowed to
have a "mind." I used to find
great significance in the fact that
there were no black cardboard
action heroes like Sylvester Stal-
lone or Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Now that Wesley Snipes has
starred as such a hero, I com-
plain that blacks aren't featured
in "quality" films; that there

aren't enough black quality films;
that those quality films don't
make enough money.
"Why don't you just admit that
you don't know what you want
from Hollywood," says my exas-
perated friend.
"I do so know what I want," I
protest. "Don't tell me I don't
know what I want."
(I want to complain.) ❑

Robert Stewart. Photography

For Some, Camp
Can Be Very Engaging

GARY ROSENBLATT SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS

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s trunks, and kids, come enjoyed camp that fateful sum-
home from camp, I offer mer, a primary reason being
this slight, somewhat that I found myself drawn to this
cautionary tale about young woman with the warm
warm summer memories — smile and open, positive attitude.
some sweet and some not so
But when I confided some of
sweet — in appreciation of how these feelings to a friend of mine,
tough it can be to be a parent, he explained the rules of "sum-
and a child.
mer love" to me in the harshest
My wife and I met at a Jew- of terms. "Don't take it too seri-
ish summer camp in the ously," he warned. 'These things
Catskills. We were 21 years old, don't last. If you call her up in
recent college graduates and on the city, she won't even remem-
the counseling staff for the sum- ber your name."
mer, but were coming from very
A year later, though, we were
different places in regard to married.

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camping experiences. She was
the consummate camper, hav-
ing spent her summers since the
age of 10 thrilling to the life of
roughing it outdoors, winning a
variety of "best camper" awards
before working her way up to
counselor-in-training, junior
counselor and counselor.
I, on the other hand, had
known a more neurotic child-
hood, fearful of new experiences.
I had never spent a summer
away from home and preferred
catching flies on a baseball field
to swatting them in the woods.
To my surprise, I thoroughly

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Week and former editor of the
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I like to tell people that if I
had gone to camp when I was 11,
I would've been married when I
was 12.
The truth is that I did go to
camp when I was 11, but I man-
aged to block out most of the ex-
perience. I was supposed to
attend the camp, less than two
hours from my home, for four
weeks, but was miserable from
the first day. I seemed to spend
most of my time composing let-
ters home pleading with my par-
ents to rescue me.
Come Visitors Day, my par-
ents brought cookies and sooth-
ing words, but I would have none
of it. I begged them to take me
home. After trying to reason with
me and agonizing over what
would be best, they relented.