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TODAY'S PICKS
THE COLOR PURPLE (8 p.m., WE) (Drama, 1985) - A black Southern woman (Whoopi Goldberg) struggles to find her identity after years of abuse. Based on the book by Alice Walker. PRESEASON FOOTBALL (6:30 p.m., CBS/2) - Jets at Philadelphia Eagles...Tags: New York Jets, Jon Voight, Jane Fonda, New York Giants, Philadelphia Eagles
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Will Michelle Obama unite nation's feminists?
Washington BureauWASHINGTON — Gina McCauley's blog on African-American women in pop culture has never attracted this kind of attention. The 3-year-old site has a mostly African-American audience. But she launched a new Michelle Obama Watch blog in June to monitor...Tags: Dance, National or Ethnic Minorities, Facebook, Political Candidates, Washington Post Company
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Critic's choice: 'The Color Purple'
Incest and child abuse might not seem natural subjects for a Broadway musical, but The Color Purple, based on Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, demonstrated that such grim, real-life problems could draw droves of theatergoers on the Great White...Tags: Hippodrome Theatre, Fiction, Music Theater, Awards and Prizes
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Calendar
ONGOING REMEMBERING KING // The Reginald F. Lewis Maryland Museum of African American History and Culture, 830 E. Pratt St., is showcasing From the Ashes of a Dream: Race and Revitalization Since MLK, a reflection on the 40th anniversary of the death...Tags: The Amistad, National or Ethnic Minorities, Fiction, Lyric Opera of Baltimore, Meyerhoff Symphony Hall
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A feminist house divided?
Today's question: What are the divisions in contemporary feminist movements? What can we expect in the future? Click here to read previous installments from this week's Dust-Up. For feminist organizations, it's change or die Point: Katha Pollitt The...Tags: Health Organizations, Dance, Structural Failures, Industrial Accidents, Newspaper and Magazine
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ON THE TRAIL
John McCain returned to his high school in Alexandria, Va., yesterday to reminisce about a teacher who inspired him and stress his support for weeding out the good from the bad in today's classroom instructors. The stop was part of the presumptive GOP...Tags: Elections, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, Political Candidates
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'The Color Purple' will soon drop final curtain
"The Color Purple" will close Feb. 24 on Broadway after a run of more than two years. The musical, based on Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, will have played 910 performances by the time the final curtain falls at the Broadway Theatre. The...Tags: Quincy Jones, Oprah Winfrey, Music Theater, Fiction, Popular Music
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Authors don't always profit with film deals
TRIBUNE NEWSPAPERS: Los Angeles TimesBy all rights, Deborah Gregory should be sitting pretty: As a first-time author, she wrote the Cheetah Girls novels, a bubbly 16-book series that became hugely popular with American tweens and teens. And she appeared to hit an even bigger jackpot when she...Tags: Contracts, Consumer Electronics Industry, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Game Playing, Marketing
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People to People: June 23, 2007
THIS WEEK ON PEOPLE TO PEOPLE.... Alice Walker's unforgettable story, 'The Color Purple,' has been adapted for the stage! If you live in Chicago you have probably seen or heard about Oprah Winfrey's wildly popular production of the musical. On this weeks...Tags: Oprah Winfrey, Music Theater
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Get your green ready for 'Color Purple' tickets
Tribune theater criticWith thoughts now turning to Miss Celie, Harpo and spring in Chicago, the in-box is full of questions about the Chicago production of the Broadway musical "The Color Purple," slated to arrive at the Cadillac Palace Theatre on April 17. If you're...Tags: Sales, Music Theater, Steven Spielberg, Celebrity, Oprah Winfrey
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In the Anderson Valley, slow is beautiful
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterEven the silence is different here. Despite a woodpecker working furiously on the eaves of a not-too-distant water tower and the buzz of tractors trolling, the quiet—like the canopy of fog—settles around you, pulls you in and ultimately...Tags: Railway Accidents, Honda, Tourism and Leisure, Vehicles, Clothing and Textiles Industry
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'The Color Purple' arrives: Confident and in full bloom
Tribune theater criticThe Broadway musical version of Alice Walker's great novel "The Color Purple" arrives in sweet home Chicago in the most confident of hues. And a confident sense of creative purpose--in this case, make that spiritual purpose--is the theater's most powerful...Tags: Michelle Williams, Oprah Winfrey, Music Theater, Palace Theater, Broadway
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