Entertainment
es come bac
Supe;'fll Maus II Come­
"lIclc: Wben Superfly makes
a ret rn to the nation' movie
creen thi week, it will be
minus Ron O'Ne 1, the actor
who helped to make the char­
acter infamou. "But thi
film i not about the actor .
It' about a message.
Superfly opened up a lot of
'door b ck in 1972, and
created a' lot of 0PPOT­
tunitie ," say athan Pur­
dee, who tar in this updated
90's ver ion, where Priest
retun home for a visit some
18 year later, to find a com­
munity and H children
. wrecked by crac cocaine.
Of cour e, he decide that
he mu t do omething to top
it. Producer Sig Shore say it
ju t wouldn't h ve worked
with 0' eal, t ting age a
an underlying factor, even if
Purdee is 40, and 0 'Neal is
still ju t as fine a ever,
though minus orne of the
hair.
In fact, 0' eal wa to
have been putting together
his own plans for a sequel,
but will have to put them
a id , now that h 's set to go
into production later thi
month on an ABC series,
centered around "The Boys" ,
Motown's teen sen ation). .
"I'm not Ron," Purdee
say , and it's tricky stepping
in someone else's foot reps,
but what got me over thar is
when I thought, how many
Jame Bonds have we had
and the public buy it".
Admittedly, the role i a
stretch for Purdee, who got a
late start in acting in 1981.
Today, he i a regular on the
.nation's top daytime drama,
"The Young &: The Restless".
However, this former
bounty hunter had plenty to
draw on in term of playing
the role of "Priest!'. Says
Purdee, "I know I beat the
odd. I'm the guy that snuck
on General Hospital's lot to
get extra work, and had never
worked an actor before."
One 0/ Motown Finest
Moments: That's one of the
way one could have summed
up the taping of Motown
'30-with it's remini cent
trek down memory' lane, and
the talented array of stars that
axi Priest is a Bona Fide hit
M xi Pric t 's debut ingle,
"Close to You," from hi new
album Bonafide is pulling of
th cro sover feat of the year.
It is currently gencr a u ng
rna ivc radio air play around
the coun try and i at th top
of Bilboard' r&b and pop
mu ic charts.
"To come out with thi
album and to e e my new
ungle on all ihe e different
mu ic charts i. one or the
greatest i h ing« that's ever
happened to me," saiu Prics t
durin I a recent vi it to the
U.S.
"From the fir t, my wholc
concept ha becn to do mu .Ic
for everybody and to draw
- cver ybody together," dds
the Briti h in rer. "Bob Mar­
ley came with th mage
and directed it. I'm hcr nov
fo everybody to under tand
that ar all a part of this
m
Although reggae i� hi
legacy and Iirst love, gro -
ing up In London meant being
OVEMBE 25 • DECE
made the lineup, -Natalie
Cole, Robert Townsend the
Boy, Smokey Robin on,
Stevie Wonder, Ke enen
Wayan , Whoopi Goldberg,
Denzel Washington, Sinbad,
and so many more.
A highlight wa the cou­
pling of Patti LaBelle with
Michael Bolton [or a medley
of Marvin Gaye/Tammi Ter­
rell hi ts.
However, noticeably ab- .
sent was Diana Ro ,one of
Motown' bigge t pa t star,
a well Johnny Gill,
Mo tow n's rei gni ng top
gros er. .
A the t ping wa n't com­
pleted until after la.m., only
a handful of celebrities
'stayed for the afterparty.
Look for thc show to air on
CBS later this month.
Woman 0/ the Hour:
Recently feted by Women in
Show Bus inc s with the
1990 Humanitarian Award,
Whoopi Goldberg was then
honored with the Sixth An­
nual Women in Film
'Festival's annual award for
excellence. And now,
MICIIIGA CITIZE
rAG 21
Goldberg i set to receive the
pre tigious Entertai ner of the
Year Award from the NAACP
t their 23rd Annual Imag
Award . Kind of ironic whe
you think it w the NM�P
who spoke out against her
wi th the re lea e of "Color
Purple".
You can be sure Whoopi
will h ve omething to say
about that on December 1
when the. ward are hand d
out in LA.
Me awhile, the city' i-
ge t tar turned out in up­
port of the Carousel of Hope
Dinner to aid the Children'
Diabetes Foundation.
Among those on hand, in­
cluding pa t pre ident Ford cl
Reagan, were Sidney Poirier,
Harry Belafonte, Paul
Abdul Susanne De Pa se ,
Merv Griffin, Clint
Eastwood, Ivana Trump, and
Motown' Jhe ry l Bu by.
Quincy Jones, Stevie
Wonder, Lionel Richie,
Dionne Warwick, and Whit­
ney Houston entertained.
And what a show!
By the way: Diahann Car­
roll was all s t to star in
"Five Up, Two Down" (a CBS
pilot bas d on a Briu h TV
series starring Cleavon lit­
tle), but pulled out with little
explanation ju t day before
the scheduled t ping.
Fee earned by gue t star
in the hourlong Halloween
episode 0 "The Fresh Prince
o/Bel Air". (Quincy Jone , Bo
Jackson, Malcolm Jamal
Warner, Al B. Sure, Heavy
D., Kadeem Hardi on, nd
Tyler Collins) ent to aid a
national dropout prevention
program.
opcn to a variety of ditfctcnt
ki nds or m u ie. "1 used to I is­
ten to H lot of oul white I was
into reggae a ell a pop and
roc ." ax' conf'id � To ay
hc ' . crcaun his own mu icat.
·t}dc, which has a trong reg­
gae base along wi th pop and
soul Influence. He call' it
"ne w vogue reggac" a nd
dcscrrbcs it as "fresh, bright
anti upl igti ng."
COMM . '1'1 G 0 the
wide acceptance of hi' ncw
musi ., Maxi aid, "I've never
sal d )\ n and said I'm goi ng
to do thi� In order to cross­
over into the international
mar ct. "Even bcfore J came
into the mu ic bu ines , I al­
\ a � had it in me that I
wasn 't going to water down
an thr ng that I do. ) 'vc got
'ong and I in _it the way 1
feel i l. ,.
Or ganiz cd and methodi­
cal, MaXI has alway known
what he want d and pur ued
it with single mindedne . As
axi Pr e t
a teenager, Maxi built hi
own sound y ucrn from 'elf
made equipment and hc ld
dances in his moincrs back­
y ar igiH n. At fir l. he
dcejaycd over rhythm trac �
but, "When I gained the COn­
fidencc, '1 tarted si ngi ng a
Ii ule," he recalls.
Maxi and a friend raise
the money to put out his fir'
sin Ie on their own label .n
lilled "Hey Lillie GirL'" T<
t hc i r delight, it q uic I
soared to the top of th
Bri ti . h reggae chart
HUD CASE NO.
Bonafide i� proof po itivc
that Maxi Pr i c s : is at the
forefront of a generation of
fresh, young artists who havc
reinve red re "a music with
ncw lif addin an r&o nd
pop sen ibility that exudes
univcr 81 appeal.
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$29,000
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