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1 l-irn 'TV the AfiAvn cjnvTmTiw IW Radiation cloud from Russia making everyone the half-life of the parly birthdays: Jackie Clonts, 40; Jack Bruce, 43. been a hoot at The Point the other night when Mark Isham, musical producer for the Timothy Hutton "Made in Heaven" film being shot here, walked in and caught Rom-mary Rainey'i act He was so taken, he sent a taxi to his hotel to. pick up his trumpet and joined in with her and her quartet for the rest of the evening. 1 I Ron rr 1 Hudspeth Comedian J. Anthony Brown, who used to hem my trousers at Henry's Tailor Shop across the, street from the Journal-Constitution building before he began making a full-time living making folks laugh, has moved to LA full time and has taped a "Comedy Tonight" episode, which will air in a couple of weeks on Channel 36.

ing job at a Charlotte country music station. Finally caught Williams Seafood in Roswell. The crabau gratin rates yummy. A captive audience, no doubt: Atlantan Donna Fleishman was in Nashville recently, and says at least one form of advertising there hasn't hit our city. She walked into a ladies room and on the back of the stall door was a sign advertising a lingerie shop.

She quickly checked the other stalls and one had an ad for a dress boutique, another for a ladies shoe shop. The ads were placed by a company called Graffiti, whose slogan was, appropriately enough, "Don't Stall, Give Us A Call." PULSE OF PEACHTREE: Preston's, doing live jazz nightly, has opened on Franklin Road off Delk. Eventually, the bar-restaurant serving everything from baked brie and smoked salmon pate to grilled seafood, will have weekend jam sessions open to would-be stars. Jeff Davidson, former GM at Channel 11 and president of Gannett Broadcasting, will marry WTBS reporter Ange Humphrey May 31. Keith Connors, former morning man at Y106, is headed to a morn Woke up this morning with a glow, which may or may not have something to do with the Russian nuclear cloud floating over us.

Yes, I feel radiant, which is supposedly what Gorbachev muttered to his wife when she awoke recently. I also had a rib attack, but my favorite, Jilly's on Roswell, is tightly padlocked by the FBI these days, even if the sign does say "Temporarily closed, opening soon." Town character Art Leo, noting the feds have seized both Tony's and Jilly's recently, says when you dial the FBI number you get a recording that reads the daily specials. A high note of a different kind: Wish I had been at Timothy John's for the Sync contest. The winners were a couple of guys doing the Blues Brothers bit, but the real story was the second place finisher Max Cleland, our state's illustrious secretary of state, did "Sherry" by the Four Seasons. And it must have When I moved here it was an amazing phenomenon the loyalty and patriotism people feel to Coca-Cola." And 77-year-old Gertio Guyton says when she was a teenager "we used to call Coca-Cola dope.

We'd walk up to the fountain and say 'Give me a All the teenagers called it that During all the celebration, I didn't hear anyone mention that I think they're playing it down because of all the dope situation today, marijuana and all that" I think you're right, Gertie. HUDCAPS: And now for today's believe it or not item, even more fascinating coming on the heels of the big Coca-Cola celebration. Lisa Frank, a local PR type, says she's never had a Coke in her life. She moved to our town 10 years ago from California, where her mother never allowed soft drinks in the house. "We always drank fresh fruit juices or spring water," recalls Lisa.

"Now it's sort of my claim to fame that I've never had a Coke. PEOPLE SPOTTER: Bill Elliott and Benny Parson dining at Ichi-ban Steak House. Tom Jones at Limelight. Chuck Berry and Howard in Hesseman dining at Dailey's. Hank Aaron dining at Ray's on the River Philly's Mike Schmidt and Von Hayes, along with the Braves' Ozzie Virgil, catching G.

David Howard's show at Jerry Far-bar's. Sidney Poitier dining at Hedgerose Heights Today's 'Passion's' substance beat out by 'Champions' John FJT) Carman 3 Black Champions: 9 tonight, WGTVChannel 8 and WPBAChan-nel 30. Passion and Memory: 10 tonight, WGTVChannel 8 and Channel 30. Two black documentaries form a double bill on PBS tonight. The themes, not surprisingly, are similar: talent collides with racial discrimination in sports and filmmaking and "Black Champions," a three-parter by documentarian William Miles, is the more substantive of the two shows.

Tonight's first installment chronicles the period, from about 1900 to 1945, when racism overshadowed accomplishment. Next week, "Black Champions" will examine the integration of professional sports, and the series conclusion the following week is billed as an overview of racial problems in contemporary sports. Miles' research and ability to channel it into an entertaining package are impressive in tonight's premiere. The stories of such black sports legends as Jack Johnson, Satchel Paige and Jesse Owens have been told with exhausting regularity. But tantalizing film footage and the inclusion of such lesser known stars as Eulace Peacock and Fritz Pollard give value to the new gationist stronghold.

Biracial exhibitions were banned for many perhaps coincidentally after a black catcher threw Ty Cobb out twice during a 1910 game in Havana. The Negro National League faltered after its creation in 1920. But during the 1930s, the black leagues provided work for the likes of Cool Papa Bell, Josh Gibson, Judy Johnson and Paige. According to "Black Champions," college football and especially track and field gave black, athletes a chance to compete alongside whites. Fritz Pollard was a Brown University halfback who starred in the 1916 Rose BowL Jerome Holland was a Cornell All-American who was shunned by some of his white teammates.

In track, black achievements were forged against the clock and couldn't be ignored. Before returning to boxing and Joe Louis, the show provides an interesting look at Owens, Ralph Metcalfe, John Woodruff and other black track stars who shattered Adolf Hitler's racial myths during the 1936 Berlin Olympics. It's fascinating material, accompanied by a script that's as eloquent as it is meticulously informative. The same can't be said for and Memory," produced for PBS by Roy Campanella himself the son of a black champi on, baseball's Roy Campanella. Narrated by Robert Guillaume of the just-canceled "Benson," the documentary is a superficial and occasionally fawning retrospective on the careers of Lincoln "Stepin Fet-chit" Perry, Hattie McDaniel, Bill Robinson, Dorothy Dandridge and Sidney Poitier.

Miss Dandridge, sometimes described as the black Marilyn Monroe, might be a special case. Among the other four, a sort of progression can be detected Perry's shuffling portrayals, Miss McDaniel's infusion of humanity into the roles of servants, Robinson's quiet pride and elegance as a screen hoofer and finally Poitier's realization of black pride. Yet the line of change is more to be inferred than picked up directly, "Passion and Memory" is fuzzy about why these five stars were chosen. Mostly the program comes across, stylistically anyway, as a too-conventional Hollywood documentary. Guillaume's narration, read at a furiously breathless pace, tends to be stilted, cliche-ridden and even pointless.

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But there are revelations. Even as a champion, Johnson often earned smaller purses than his white challengers. The physical demands of boxing in his time are an eye-opener, too fights routinely scheduled for 45 rounds, sometimes in blistering heat. Then there are the snippets about the man outside the ring. Johnson might have come up through mining town and lumber camp bouts, but he was also an avid reader of Shakespeare and a talented classical musician.

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