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THE INDIANAPOLIS RECORDER

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27,1998

MUSICAL FIX

Drop on a dime... Whitney has returned. Yes, Ms. Houston has returned to the studio to produce her first album in eight years. It is hard to believe that it’s been that long since we’ve heard a compilation that was pure Whitney. Time flies when all you read about Whitney is the drama between her and New Edition bad boy Bobby Brown; it’s a wonder she can still hold her head up. Her latest drop on the dime, entitled “My Love Is Your Love,” hit stores November 17. The CD features songs like “When You Believe,” a duet between her and another song di va -Mariah Carey (produced by Babyface for The Prince of Egypt soundtrack), “You’ll never stand alone,” (also produced by Babyface) “In My Business,” and “Oh Yes,” (both produced by Missy ‘Misdemeanor’ Elliott, and

Rolle succumbs to illness

Whitney Houston “Heartbreak Hotel,” featuring two of the baaadddest R&B soultress’ on the block- Kelly Price and Faith Evans. Whitney may be experiencing problems at the homefront 24-7 but when it comes to the studio • she’s under control.

By Associated Press LOS ANGELES - Esther Rolle, who went from feisty maid in the hit sitcom “Maude” to strong-willed matriarch in the spinoff “Good Times,” has died at age 78. Ms. Rolle died overnight after a long illness, publicist Pat Tobin said today. No cause of death was given. An actress who fought Black stereotypes in Hollywood, Ms. Roile ironically spent much of her career playing maids, on producer Norman Lear’s “Maude” and “Good Times” and in the TV movie “Summer of My German Soldier,” which won her an Emmy. On stage, she played a retired maid in the classic “A Raisin in

the Sun.” She also appeared on the big screen in “Driving Miss Daisy”- again as a housekeeper, and in John Singleton’s tragic “Rosewood.” She has a role in poet Maya Angelou’s directorial debut film, “Down in the Dfelta,” due out next month. “Good Times,” which ran from 1974 to 1979, told the story of a struggling but loving family on Chicago’s South Side. Ms. Rolle’s character, Florida Evans, was a maid, but die emphasis was on her home life with her husband, two sons and daughter. It made a star out of Jimmie Walker, who played the older son J.J., and his trademark saying, “Dy-no-mite!," became a national catch phrase. She once said she was intent on shattering the image of a

“Hollywood maid with the vegetable farmer. Her manager roiling of the eyes” who doted on gave her date of birth as Nov. 8, her white charges but ignored her 1920, though some references list

own children. Ms. Rolle demanded that her family be led by a father, f role that went to John Amos, who was introduced on “Maude” the year before “Good Times”

began.

Again striving for good role models, Ms. Rolle left “Good Times” after three seasons

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Her older siblings wrote skits that she performed for the younger children. After high school, she followed her actress sister to New York City and eventually landed Broadway parts. She was appearing in Melvin Van Peebles’ play “Don’t Play Us Cheap” when she won

because she felt the J. J. character, the role as Florida in “Maude who began getting mixed up in \ In 1990, she became the first shady schemes as the show - , woman to receive the NAACP evolved, was a poor example for Chairman’s Civil Rights LeaderBlack youth. She was persuaded ship Award, which honored her to return after a year. work in helping raise the image

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