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‘Capricorn one’ blacks out our hero named O.J. Everybody's raving about O.J. Simpson’s role as a black astronaut in the film “Capricorn One,” and we wonder why. First the film is highly illogical. Sure, the possibility of staged space landings exists among cynics, but complete with tape recorded conversation between the astronauts perfectly synchronized to their lip movements? Let's be serious. Also our hero Orenthal James keeps getting played down. Whenever he walks on camera with his fellow astronauts, he is either last in line, or has a heavy shadow cast over him apparently by bad

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cities....No, the joke isn't really on Epic recording songstress Patti Labelle, but there will definitely be lots of laughter when she sets out to do a few select dates with comedian extraordinaire Richard Pryor. As of now, their first date together will be Aug. 11 at San Diego’s Golden Hall. Also this month, there will be five dates in San Carlos at the Circle Star Theatre and a possible date at the Aladdin Theatre in Las Vegas. On Sept. 1st, the fantastic duo will begin a two night stint at Red Rocks in Denver. From there. they’ll move to New York’s City Center for four nights. BLACK HISTORY QUIZ: Where is “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”?...A log cabin located in Rockville, Md., is believed to be the birth place of Josiah Henson, an escaped slave immortalized in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel about the antebellum South. Henson, born in 1789, escaped from slavery in 1830, and established a fugitive slave community in Canada. In 1849, Henson met Mrs.

SOUL SOUNDS CONTINUED FROM PAGE 10 “Shout" and “Twist and Shout”?) when there were only three: Kelly, Rudolph, and lead singer Ronald. Following their first gold record, 1969’s “It’s Your Thing,” the doo-woppers bounced back in 1973 with three more players--brothers Ernie and Marvin and brother-in-law Chris Jasper--and a new sound. They then set out to become living legends: the first bl—h act out of the ’50s to have a stronghold on the current market. They had mesmerizing ballads like “Who’s That Lady" and Seals and Crofts’ “Summer Breeze,” as well as fiery rock-funk tunes like “Fight the Power,” another gold single, and "Livin’ in the Life.” Some are slightly overweight, but they can still rock with the best of them, both live and on record, as their two platinum and six gold singles will attest. Appearing with the Isleys will be Dramatics, whose hits dating back to the old Stax Records days include “In the Rain,” “Whatcha See is Whatcha Get," and “Shake it Well,” and \ Taste of Honev. Latter group, led by guitar-playing loveiioe Janice Johnson and Hazel Payne, burst ever so quickly on the market this summer with a highly commercial disco smash, “Boogie Oogie Oogie.” Miss Johnson’s bass line drives the song in an unashamedly funky manner, while Miss Payne’s lead guitar licks reek of the Bee Gees’ 1976 hit “You Should Be Dancing.” •** Following are the week’s pick Soul Sounds: “What You Waitin’ For” - STARGARD; “I Thought It Was You” - HERBIE HANCOCK; “Ain’t We Funky Now” - BROTHERS JOHNSON; “Everybody Has a Dream” -- MANHATTANS; and “Love Brought Me Back” -- D.J. ROGERS.

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lighting or some obstructing object. How’s that for “blacking out” our star Hertz Rent-A-Car leaper? There are some funny moments though, like when a news reporter who is onto NASA’s game about aborting the flight and staging it in a secluded movie studio, has his auto tampered with by the mob, sdo that instead of stopping, it automatically accelerates - through walls and heavy traffic. Not funny? Oh well, what the heck!-L.F. ‘Last Waltz’ fimipri HOLLYWOOD--Blues singer Muddy Waters will team with the Staples for the upcoming film “The Last Waltz’" sources from here say.

Soul People Repertory Company will wind up a two-weekend run of Charles Gordone’s “No Place to Be Somebody” this weekend in Fort Benjamin Harri^p’® Command Playhouse. Expected to draw large throngs to match those at last weekend’s performances when the troupe hits the stage 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday apd 3 p.m. Sunday, the play stars Bernie Hall, Stanley Howard, Diane Lyerson, Lindi Oslermeier, Henrietta Robinson, and Glenn White, among others. The performers combine comedically to offer a multiple view of persons who hang out in a particular Harlem bar when they have nowhere else to sro. Soul People’s Helen Whitelowe directs the play, produced c by Joseph Papp, whose previous work includes “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf,” Advance tickets may be purchased at $3.50 by calling Planner House, 925-4231 or the playhouse box office, £42-3288. Admission will be $4 at the door. Jubilation 1 concert Andrae Crouch and the Disciples, Walter Hawkins and the Family featuring Edwin and Tremaine Hawkins and Sarah Jordan Powell will fill the bill for Youth for Christ’s Jubilation I gospel concert, scheduled 7:30 p.m. Thursday in the Indiana Convention-Exposition Center’s Concert Hall. Listen to Ebony’s rhythm Local contemporary rhythm and blues group Ebony Rhythm Funk Campaign will play a free two-hour concert beginning 7 p.m. Friday in Miller and Kappes Community Center, 1855 Miller. Concert is part of a series of free family concerts sponsored by the Indianapolis Department of Parks and Recreation.

PARTY LIGHTS

Keep “The Ridge”

Help keep Shortridge High School alive by attending the school’s alumni committee's special matinee planned for 4 p.m. Saturday in Stoplight Lounge, 5013 West 38th. Tickets may be purchased at $2 from Indianapolis Opportunities Industrialization Center offices, Shortridge, or any alumni member. Elvis Presley memorial Marion County Chapter of the American Heart Association will sponsor a memorial tribute to late rock singer Elvis Presley beginning at Noon Saturday in Military Park, Capitol and New York. Collector’s items depicting the 20-plus-year singing career of the King of Rock, wno diet, last August 16 of cardiac arrhythma, which his personal physician, Dr. George Nichopolous, describes as a type of heart attack, will be raffled as drawing prizes to raise funds for heart research and community programs. Presley’s last concert appearance was a year ago J une 26 in Market Square Arena, final stop on his “Elvis in Concert” tour. K.C. summer showcase Mobile disc jockey K.C. the Undisco Kidd, who wowed audiences at last month’s Indiana Black Expo Soul Picnic, and at his booth during the two-day exhibition, will provide the sounds to make feet move 10 p.m. August 18 in the Atkinson Hotel for a Summer Showcase Dance. Tickets are $3.

More goodbyes LOS ANGELES“Kiss and Say Goodbye” turned out to be a little more than just another million - seller for the Manhattans. “Since then,” an unidentified group member told an interviewer, “everybody who writes a ‘goodbye’ song sends it to us, hoping we’ll record it. Soom they’ll be calling us “The Goodbye Group.” The quartet has, however, recorded many breakup soi since that 1976 Columbia including “Am I Losing You,’' ‘There’s No Good in Goodbye’ (there’s that word again,) and “I Kinda Miss You.”

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Stowe and presented her with an outline of his slave experiences which provided the basis for the book... ...The First Harlem Jazz Festival, Aug. 17-31, will have shows at the Celebrity Club; Harlem Hospital Auditorium; Vincent’s Place; Small’s Paradise; Cotton Club; St. Marks Church and Jumel Mansion. Melba Moore recently distributed prizes at the awards ceremony for the weeklong 55th annual National “Big Blue Marble” tournament held in Wildwood, N.J. The singeractress is spokeperson and a consultant for “Big Blue Marble,” ITT’s kiddie TV series. The show, by the way, will film the soccer great Pele giving soccer tips to children at the Giant’s Stadium in New Jersey and at his camp in Purchase, N.Y., for showing on the new Fall series...Later, for the happenings. We sincerely hope that you enjoyed reading this week’s column, as much as we did writing it. .And “That’s The Black Truth!

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