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Hollywood TODAY
 A News Service of Tri-Ad Consultants, Ltd.
                 by Vincent Tubbs

ALL SHOOK UP best describes how show business people feel in Tinseltown since multi-talented signing star MICHAEL JACKSON, and a controversial movie titled "WHITE DOG" began making simultaneous headlines a couple of weeks ago.  After his cake walk through the American Music Awards with 39% of the trophies, the world is in shock was result of Michael's accident while filming a Pepsi commercial as part of a $10 million deal.
  You know all about that by now, BUT chances are you missed the fancy footwork that went on around the flick "WHITE DOG" - with a big studio, a TV network and a cable TV network ducking, dodging and ultimately disclosing the disturbing "payroll" involvement of a very important N.A.A.C.P. person. You see, "WHITE DOG" is an expensive movie about a nice pedigreed German shepherd master-trained to attack Black people. That's why it has that title.  Young KRISTY MCNICHOL stars, old gray-bearded BURL IVES co-stars, and then there's a good-ol-boy PAUL WINFIELD as the Brother whose presence in the picture is to retrain the dog so he won't act that way anymore.
   The movie's director, SAMUEL FULLER, says the film is a condemnation of bigotry, and Sam is angry with the distributors for copping out to what he regards as minority meddling that "WHITE DOG" could "cause/provoke unrest"?????
 The movie's producers have disclosed that when they decided to make "WHITE DOG" and the Local N.A.A.C.P. spokespersons "trusted" them, they payrolled a couple of Black consultants to guide them while filming was underway.
   Since then, the completed movie production, released by Paramount Pictures, was 

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