a date with lena horne. a date for me with lena horne? 'cause he thinks i'm gonna die. i better tell him. ...sure lena horne's gonna be here tonight? hey, man, i told you, lamont. it's all set, man. she's coming over right after the concert, man. praise the lord. that woman's heart is in the right place. well, i told pop about the date tonight because i didn't want it to come as too much of a shock to him. but i think he's really gonna enjoy the party that we're throwing for him before the date. it'll just be... one great night that he'll always remember. it doesn't have to be too great, lamont, because he doesn't have to remember too long. what can i do to help with the party? i want you to bring some chop suey and some party records that we can dance to. we eat his chop suey, we won't need i want you to bring the liquor. but get the best, man. you know, don't spare no expenses. get the best. hey, man, you ain't said nothin' but get. ok. say, jack, it's too early. too early? yeah, the liquor store's still open. get out of here, man. grady, i want you to be in charge of

lena horne when i was a child. >> you do like her music or else you named -- >> i love her music. >> i love that song by the way. >> me too. let it snow, let it snow. >> we're feeling the holiday spirit around here. >> it is cold enough, and you know, if we had these cold temperatures tomorrow morning when the front was coming through we'd have something, but, you know, not around here. typically just right about the time the precipitation comes the cold air warms up and that's what we'll see looking west down -- through wake county, and you can see a lot of high thin cloud cover there. that's going to thicken up as we get through the day today. expect it to be fairly cloudy by late this afternoon. 31 is our current temperature so still chilly even though the sun has been out for a couple of hours now. our dewpoint 27, getting up there, too. so increasing moisture, which is good, we could use all the moisture we can get. and increasing temperatures, too. we started off this morning with temperatures anywhere from say the low to mid to upper 20s i and now we're looking at low to mid-3

and his next show was jamaica with lena horne, with an all-black cast. that finian's rainbow in 1947 was the first show on broadway where the chorus line consisted of blacks and whites who danced with each other, and the chorus was an integrated affair. amy goodman: what happened to him during the mccarthy era? ernie harburg: well, he could not work on any major film that they wanted him to work on from the major studios in hollywood. the setup was that roy brewer, who was the head of the iatse union -- i'm sorry to say that --as the one who -- amy goodman: what do you mean? ernie harburg: well, i mean this is a stagehands' union. i'd like to say good things about unions, but they get bureaucratized, and they go right-wing, you know? they get bad. this was a bad leader, and he terrorized all of the jewish moguls who were being accused of communism by the house un-american activities committee, and they yielded to whatever he said to them, out of fear that they would get branded as communists or that they'd boycott the film, alright? and so, when, you kno

she's joan of arc, madame curie, shirley chisholm, and lena horne all rolled up into one. you roll all them into one and you get totie fields. that's funny. yeah, i thought you'd like that one. look here, son. i'll just show you something here in the album book. look here. aw. there's my baby sister right there. yeah, see that. you know, you were more like a father to her than a brother. passed when she was 2 years old so i raised her like she was my own. hey, hey, what is this guy that she's marrying, rodney victor? what does he do for a living. son, i don't know what he does for a living, but it must be something good because frances is too great to settle for anything less than mr. right. [groans] i'll sure be glad when they get here. be like one big happy family. that's good. my house is their house. hey, that's nice of you to say that, pop. my food is their food. hey, that's the way i like to hear my old man talk. welcome sis and broth. that's not broth. that's bruth. you know, like in brother. well, it looks like broth to me. well, only a real dummy would think that

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