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Howard Rollins: Roles
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In the 25 games since Howard's return, Rollins hit .296 with 20 runs, Victorino .288 with 21 runs and Rowand .291 with 14 runs and 14 RBIs. Chase Utley, already a good hitter, is at a .366 clip with the big guy back.
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Rollins, a New York stage actor, landed, at the beginning of the 1980s, what was called "the Sidney Poitier part" in Milos Forman's Ragtime. The film did well and Rollins was nominated for Best Supporting Actor. But, unfortunately for him, he began to speak out about the discrimination he witnessed. He didn't know that this, for a black actor, is a no-no. He went on to make other movies, but slowly began to vanish from the silver screen. He never quite had the career he was expected to have, and died at a young age.
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From All Movie Guide: Towson State College graduate Howard E. Rollins Jr. has been a stage leading man since the mid-1970s. The tall, imposing African-American actor earned an Oscar nomination for his portrayal of fiercely proud Coalhouse Walker Jr. in Ragtime (1981). As impressive as his theatre and film resumés are his TV credits, including such roles as Andrew Young in the 1978 miniseries King and George Haley in the 1979 multiparter Roots: The Next Generation. Howard E. Rollins was seen on a more regular basis on the ABC daytime drama Another World (for which he was Emmy-nominated); as explosives expert Bannister Parks on the 1985 "buddy western" series Wildside; and as Virgil Tibbs on the long-running (1988-92) TV adaptation of In the Heat of the Night. He made his final feature film appearance in Drunks (1995), a slice-of-life drama set at an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting. Six weeks before he died on December 8, 1997, the 42-year-old Rollins had been diagnosed with lymphoid.
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Howard E. Rollins stars as martyred civil-rights spokesman Medgar Evers, while Irene Cara co-stars as his wife (and future NAACP leader) Myrlie. The film concentrates on the last years of Evers, an ex-insurance agent turned activist. His home in Jackson, Mississippi is besieged by bigots and he and his family are threatened with dire consequences, but Evers continues to work towards the goal of integrating his racially-polarized state. In June of 1963, the 37-year-old Evers is shot to death in front of his home. This 90 minute drama was adapted from a book co-authored by Mrs. Evers, Ossie Davis and J. Kenneth Rotcop. For Us, the Living was first telecast March 22, 1983 on PBS' American Playhouse.
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Rollins died in 1996 after complications from AIDS-related lymphoma and was interred in the Woodlawn Cemetery in his native Baltimore. He had been diagnosed with the condition approximately six weeks earlier.[1][2] An unveiling of a wax statue of Rollins took place at the Senator Theater in Baltimore on October 25, 2006. The statue is now at Baltimore's Great Blacks in Wax Museum.[3]
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The Phillies have the best offense in the National League, supported by three MVP candidates (Howard, Rollins and Utley). They have a stud pitcher (Hamels) and they have a good bullpen (both closer and set-up men). What they don't have is quality, post-season level pitching after their Hamels. Someone needs to step up, or the Phillies will have to win most games by outslugging the Rockies – and they most definitely can do that.
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