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Hollywoodcostume Designer Speaksat Diggs Actor Morgan Freeman in a scene from "Amistad Photo courtesy of Columbia Pictures Ving Rhames and Jon Voight in "Rosewood." Hollywood costume designer speaks at Diggs SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE Back," "Surviving the Game," "Meteor single white woman against one "black" Man," "Against the Ropes" and "Down in the stranger, many of the men of Rosewood were Winston-Salem State University's Diggs Delta." hunted down and lynched, or shot, or burned. Gallery and the National Black Theatre Festi¬ The schedule for the Ruth Carter Designs val will co-host a lecture by Ruth Carter, a Movie Fest is as follows: Hollywood costume designer, on Aug. 5 at 5:30 p.m. in Diggs Gallery. Aug. 2 . Noon "Amistad" (1997), Morgan Free¬ Carter will discuss "Costumes Versus man, Anthony Hopkins, Djimon Hounsou. Fashions: The Role of the Designer in the . Noon "Malcolm X" (1992), Denzel This Steven Spielberg exploration Film Industry." A reception will follow the Washington and Angela Bassett. recounts the trial that followed the 1839 lecture. In honor of Carter, Diggs Gallery also Spike Lee's comprehensive film biogra¬ African rebellion aboard the Spanish slave will host a Ruth Carter Designs Movie Fest phy of slain civil rights leader Malcolm X is ship Amistad and captures the complex polit¬ on Aug. 2 and Aug. 9 from noon to 5 p.m. much more than the depiction of a great ical maneuverings set in motion by the event. Carter, a graduate of Hampton University, man's life. It is a film that shows, through the It shows the political maneuvering of Ameri¬ has received two Oscar nominations for her powerful story of one man, a person's ability can and European politicians regarding the work in Spike Lee's "Malcolm X" and Steven to reinvent himself and change his life. issue of slavery. Spielberg's "Amistad." With more than 17 . 3 p.m. "Rosewood" (1997), Jon . 3 p.m. "Down in the #Delta" (1998), years in the design field, her des§ns are seen Voight, Ving Rhames, Don Cheadle. Alfre Woodard, Esther Rolle, Loretta Devine. in more than 30 major films. Starting with "Rosewood," directed by John Singleton, Poet Maya Angelou made her feature "School Carter collaborated with Daze," Ruth Carter is the true story of an almost unknown inci¬ directorial debut with this African-American Spike Lee on eight of his pictures, including dent in a small Florida town inhabited almost ^family drama. As members "Crook- family struggle "Do the Right Thing," "Clockers," "Price of Glory," "Love and Basketball," entirely by middle-class African-Americans. through issues of drugs, alcohol and health, lyn," "Summer of Sam," "Jungle Fever," "BAPS," "The Five Heartbeats," "I'm Gonna On New Year's day, 1923, the town was they learn the true meaning of love and unity "Mo' Better Blues" and "Bamboozled." Git U Sucka," "The Great White Hype," wiped off the face of the earth by angry through the story of a sacred family heirloom. She also has worked with numerous direc¬ Train," "Cobb," "What's Love Got whites from a neighboring community that tors on such films as Care," "I "Money killed between 70 and 250 African-Ameri- For more "Daddy Day to Do with It?," "How Stella Got Her Groove information, call Diggs Galler\t Spy," "Dr. Dolittle II," "Baby Boy," "Shaft," cans. Based on palpably false testimony by a at 750-2458. 'Lavender Lizards'tells story ofself-liberation Ntozake Sliange best knownfor "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf' CHRON1CLE STAFF REPORT NBTF's Fringe Series, which highlights plays by college students. "Lavender Lizards" is Ntozake Shange is the mother of the being put on by students from the University choreopoem. Shange put her unique theatrical of Florida, where Shange recently accepted a style which intricately fuses spoken word faculty position. poetry, music and precession movements to The self-liberation piece is a collection of use in 1976 when her "For Colored Girls Who poems written by Shange that are woven Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow together to tell the story of a young woman, Is Enuf' made its way to Broadway. Layla LaPierre, as she tries to find her spirit Shange's latest work will come to the and soul. The character Layla also was the National Black Theatre Festival after success¬ focus of Shange's 1981 piece, "Bomie WocT- ful runs in Atlanta and Gainesville. Fla. gie Landscapes." "Lavender Lizards and Lilac Landmines: Mikell Pinkney directs "Lavender Lizards Dream" will be as of the Layla's staged part and Lilac Landmines: Layla's Dream." Shange , <.
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