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FRIDAY, JANUARY 2, 2004

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MAMA’S BOYZ by JERRY CRAFT

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R.F.D. by MIKE MARLAND

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT BRIEFS

IRT kicks off2004 with The Drawer Boy’ The Indiana Repertory Theatre opens 2004 with Michael Healey's "The Drawer Boy." Set on a Canadian farm, this three-man story seems to be the truth of everyplace - at home in every city it travels to. "The Drawer Boy” begins with previews on Jan. 7, opens officially on Jan. 9 and runs through Jan. 31 on the IRT’s Mainstage. Tickets may be ordered online at www.indianarep.com or by calling the IRT ticket office at (317) 6355252.

’Boston Marriage’ to open at Phoenix The Phoenix Theatre will open 2004 with "Boston Marriage" by playwright David Mamet. The production will preview on Jan. 8 and open on Jan. 9. The play will continue through Feb.1. The play will run in rotation with the Beckmann Theatre's production of David Mamet's "American Buffalo." Tickets are $22.50 for those 25 and over, $12 for those 24 and under. Reduced rates are available for groups of 15 or more. Call the theater at (317) 635-7529 for tickets and information.

DOWNTOWN EVENTS

Jan. 1 - April 80 The Hoosier Renaissance at the I^egacy Theater: The African-American Experience Indiana State Museum Monday - Saturday 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.; Sunday 11 a.m. - 5 p.m. Museum admission: $7; $6.50 seniors; $4 children ages 3 -12; free ages 2 and under Bring the whole family and take advantage of this learning experience. Jan. 2-24 Catch Theatre on the Square Friday and Saturday 8 p.m.;

Sunday 2:30p.m. 820; 817 stmients and seniors Experience this thought-pro-voking and serious story ahfflM the men who voluntarily become HIV positive and their reasons behind it. Jan. 3 and 6 Indiana Pacers Conseco Fieldhouse Various times 810-896 Cheer on your Indiana Pacers as they face the New Orleans Hornets Saturday and the Orlando Magic Tuesday. Jan. 7 Indianapolis Symphony

Orchestra Guidant Foundation Special Event - “Go for Baroque” Hilhert Circle Theatre 7:30 p.m. 825-865 Join Maestro Venzago for this 18 lh century program featuring compositions of Bach. Haydn and Handel. Jan. 7-31 The Drawer Boy Indiana Repertory Theatre Various times 825 - 844 Follow Morris and Angus as theydiscover the forgotten secrets of World War II sweethearts and tragedy locked in Angus's head.

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Book offers look at work of William Cooper Nell

Special to The Recorder A first book entitled William Cooper Nell: Abolitionist, Historian and Integrationist; Selected Writings, 1832-1874, has been edited and published by the late Dorothy Porter Wesley and her daughter, Constance Porter Uzelac. Carter G. Woodson regarded Nell as the first African-Ameri-can historian. Nell was so talented a writer that William S. McFeely, in his book on Frederick Douglass stated that Nell “missed his calling. A bom reporter, he carried his writing pad with him wherever he went; in the middle of one of Douglass’ speeches, or alone at night in bed, he would toss onto the page his immediate thought. Then he would draw a line under it and, the next moment or the next day, leap to a totally different topic.” Donald Jacobs wrote that “Nell was the arch-integrationist, perhaps the most vehement Black integrationist in all the free states, and his views fit in well with (William Lloyd) Garrison’s.” Partly for this reason, Garrison was more then willing to open up

William Cooper Nell

the Liberator’s pages to Nell and his ideas, especially after Nell’s return from Rochester. Article after article appearing in the Liberator du ring the 1850s bore the Nell signaym ture and imprint, and the view in relation to local Black affairs was often colored by Nell’s own attitudes. Nell was an active abolitionist in the American antislavery conflict; a protester, an activist for equal rights, and an integrationist. He was also a business agent, an accountant, and a preparer of deeds and mortgages. He conducted the Liberator’s employment bureau for free Blacks and fugitive slaves. As the secretary for numerous organizations and conventions, he edited their proceedings and wrote many of the resolutions, presented toasts, often made brief statements and delivered lectures. Most of Nell’s writings were

printed in the Liberator. He served as a subscription agent and contributor to many newspapers including the National Anti-Slavery Standard, the Weekly Elevator, the North Star, the Provincial Freedman, and the Pine and Palm, and for six months he was the publisher and printer of Frederick Douglass' North Star. Through his letters to Garrison, Wendell Phillips, Amy Kirby Post and Jeremiah Burke Sanderson, he painted the daily activities of the abolitionists and their visitors in the antislavery office. His breadth of writings included articles, editorial comments, obituaries, biographies, notices of meetings, convention and meeting reports, and pamphlets and books, which included at least six titles. A man of many interests, Nell was a believer in spiritualism, an avid reader, a book collector and the first Black man to become a federal employee in Boston when he was hired by John Palfrey to work at the Boston Post Office in 186:3.

NEW YORK (AP) - Michael Jackson said in an interview with the CBS television network that he still believes it’s acceptable to sleep with children and that he would “slit my wrists” before he would hurt a child. Jackson, arrested Nov. 20 on suspicion of child molestation, denied the charges against him during an interview with Ed Bradley conducted Christmas nightthat aired Sunday on the CBS television news magazine “60 Minutes." Jackson, 45, is charged with seven counts of performing lewd or lascivious acts upon a child under 14 and two counts of administering an intoxicatingagent. He remains free on $.3 million bail. Asked by Bradley if it was still OK to sleep with children given the charges against him, Jackson a n swe red, “Of cou rse. ” “Why not?” he said. “If you’re going to be a pedophile, if you’re going to be Jack the Ripper, if you're going to be a murderer, it’s not a good idea. ThatT am not." CBS confirmed comments about the alleged victim that Jackson’s attorney, Mark (ieragos, said his client made dur- t mg the interview: “I didn’t sleep in bed with the child. Even if I did it’s OK. I slept on the floor. I give the bed to the child.” The pop singer, interviewed in a Los Angeles hotel room, said

the police search ofhis Neverland Ranch in California had been overdone and so violated his privacy that it will never be the same for him. “I won't live there ever again,” he said. "It’s a house now. It’s not a home anymore. I'll only visit." Bradley had been pursuing an interview with Jackson even before the molestation charges. The CBS newsman .traveled to

Neverland last February for an interview, but Jackson got cold feet and canceled it at the last minute. His musical career may have faded, but Jackson is still a big television draw, if only because of the curiosity factor. His last television interview, with British journalist Martin Bashir, was seen by 27 million people on the ABC network last February.