The Register, 1996-02-14

              heat-(a pacino robert de niro val â–  kilmer a big-star cops and robbers movie with pacino playing a cop for a change lots of action and car chases and should be considered a must see the scene in which pacino and deniro go for a drink together is american music awards brings forth a few surprises the 23rd annual american music awards were broadcast monday jan 29 at 9:00 pm on abc the program hosted by comedians sinbad and jeff foxworthy showcased the best and brightest in the music industry in 1995 boyz ii men was nominated for five different awards but they only carried two home favoritesoul/r b album and favorite soul/r&b band duo or group tlc was nominated for three awards including favorite artist of the year but failed to win any awards coolio walked away with the favorite rap/hip hop artist award and mariah carey won for favorite soul/r&b artist brandy was the favorite new artist for this category and hoolic and the blowfish were the favorite new artists lor pop rock the lion king was mechoiceforfavoritesoundtrack country and pop/rock favorite band duo or group soul/r&b country and pop/rock favorite soundtrack favorite male country soul/r&b and pop/rock the much coveted award of merit and a new category favorite artist of the year perhaps the most moving performance was given by garth brooks his performance featured footage from the bombing of the federal building in oklahoma honored as favorite performer of the year brooks remarked that he did not deserve the award and left the stage leaving the award on the podium michael jackson was nominated for three awards and was not there to accept the one he won favorite pop rock male sandra bernhart who presented the award with the googoo dolls joked that jackson did not attend be cause he was mourning the loss of his wife lisa marie this y ear's award of merit went to country legend tammy wynette a special tribute was given to those performers who died in 1995 including eazy e don cherry junior walker and latino sensation selena the categories for the awards were favorite al bum pop/rock soul/r&b and country favorite artist rap/hip hop adult contemporary heavy metal/hard rock alternative music and soul/r&b favorite female the show opened with a performance by mariah carey other performers were brandy lionel richie ll cool j and luther vandross african arts fest begins sylvia tabron staff writer the sound and art of african americans is widespread and is taking affect the african american arts festival sponsored by miller brewing company will hold its tenth annual arts festival from january through march 1996 this extravaganza will be divided into four acts which will include mu sic/theater visual arts dance and multi-discipline brtable so that no one would feel unco in 1987 when the pro gram first started we found that we were in competition with other black history programs said kastner kastner said the staff felt that the audience had to make a choice with the programs from there came the idea to develop another program which combined all of the black history festivities in the past years there have been 20,000 people from the greensboro and southeast areas to attend the festivities said judith kastner the community development/marketing/director for the united arts council 404.523.6136 black college radio organization 18th annual gathering april 5-6 1996 if you are fascinated by radio television and cable broadcasting and want to explore career and internship opportunities in these fields you'll want to join representatives from more than 100 black colleges and universities at this year's convention in addition to the educational value at this convention chances are you'll get to meet one of your favorite recording stars and get a first hand look at the telecommuni cations aspects of the 1996 olympic games come on down april 5-6 1996 in atlanta georgia at the renaissance hotel 75 pre-registration fee includes all meals after march 1 1996 90.00 information post office box 3191 atl it c ' 030 kastner be published as an educationalse las been a lot of recognition froi vice by this newspaper february 14,1996 10 the register / entertainment almost worth the admission price alone jeff waits etfl'ertainment editor tracey l clay staff writer raped and murdered in your home and the system allows the perpetrator to get away how far would you go for revenge don't be a menace-(wayans broth ers i believe in supporting black films but not this one it's worse than their television show a big disappointment espically on the sex and the men being told off by the women while the book dealt more with their background and the reason for the dccisons they made perhaps none more so than the character robin stokes rachon who was protrayed as being shallow and not given as much depth as her counterpart in the book othello laurence fishbourne the classic shakespearean play starring ac claimed actor laurence fishbourne it's the story of a succesful black man who murders his white wife sounds famliar at least they finally allow someone black to play the part eye for an eye-(sally field ed har ris if your 17 year old daughter is brutally waiting to exhale-(angeia bassett whitney houston loretta devine lela rachon and a bunch of no good cheat ing married homosexual strung on drugs lying men whom they are in volved with if you have not seen this movie of four black women who come to grips with the various relationships in their lives what are you waiting for also check out the book it's better the movie focuse biodome-rtam/y shore one of the baldwins stephen i think another movie in the dumb and dumber genre why does pauly shore keep getting star ring roles in motion pictures while quality actors often struggle for parts if you like jury duty or son-in-law have fun