St. John's Confidential File

HELLO AMERICA!—For years and years, the name Hugh Hefner has been a part of our life in some way or the other. His progressive ideas and thinking concerning publishing, entertainment and pushing whatever button necessary to change old-fashioned, corny concepts concerning, women, sex and social morals shook a lot of people up, but Hefner couldn’t care less. My friend Leon Isaac...

HELLO AMERICA!—Since I have been hosting my own radio show for the last six months, I have received so many messages from listeners as well as readers of this column concerning my young life growing up in a place called Green Tree Hollow. They are interested as a youngster what my view of the world was during that period of...

HELLO AMERICA!—If you’ve been in Hollywood as long as I have, it is so easy to assume you know everything about everybody! As for me, since I have known Marla Gibbs who has developed quite a reputation as one of the industry’s top actors based on her successful shows since the 1970s which include two of the funniest shows ever, “The Jeffersons”...

HELLO AMERICA!—From the very first time meeting one of the first ladies of the motion picture industry, BETTE DAVIS, she immediately took on the responsibility of giving me a graduate course of Hollywood survival. Being a rather tenacious young 18-year-old dreamer of what I might achieve in the business, whenever there was a problem, question or something I needed to know...

HELLO AMERICA!—Recently, I have been receiving so many messages concerning current actors of color portraying old concepts and views of themselves as a people in this country. Betty Hamilton, a third-grade teacher, and listener of my radio WLMR radio show and reader of this column from Boston inquired why so many potentially fine actors, especially black female artists believe...

HELLO AMERICA!—Upon hearing about our play, "I FEEL SIN COMIN' ON," being produced in Atlanta, GA, I received a message from a fan who asked why it wasn't being supported and produced in Los Angeles. The same query was posed by many listeners of my national radio show as well. It was initially rather disturbing because after so many...

HELLO AMERICA!—It is very gratifying to know there is one major city in our country that genuinely cares about the arts and what it does to promote love and understanding among people.  Of course, it does demand that those who are savvy enough to understand this basic principle in opening the door to this kind of journey happen. The owner...

HELLO AMERICA!—So many people come to Hollywood with merely a dream to keep them alive or even believing what the outcome might be. But Richard Eick, a young filmmaker, actor, writer arrived fully prepared to take on any task which might come his way in making it to the top. Our young Mr. Eick began his career at eight years old by...

HELLO AMERICA!—When John Lewis, a youngster growing up outside of Philadelphia, in the small suburb of Morton, Pennsylvania, he was fascinated by the sound of the early morning train which woke up their small community exactly 5:30 a.m. making its way to the big city of Philly. “To me,” he explained, “the sound represented words that I somehow understood as...

HELLO AMERICA!—Millions of Americans are cheering former President Obama wherever he goes these days. It is reported that he is receiving thousands of letters from people from all over the world, especially, young people who are urging him to take on some official governmental responsibility or office. Not only that, he has been offered a film script to consider which...