Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: MONDAY, April 1, 1991                   TAG: 9104010008
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PEOPLE

The ceremony took place at the Los Angeles home of investor Allen Paulson, a former business partner of Iacocca's. Earle wore a white silk chiffon dress that cost a reported $23,000.

The 66-year-old Iacocca's first wife died. He was divorced from his second in 1987, after 1 1/2 years of marriage. He has two daughters.

The flamboyant Iacocca, whose face is a familiar sight on television commercials for Chrysler, has become a uniquely American icon, a can-do supersalesman and best-selling author.

Earle, 42, studied at the prestigious Cordon Bleu cooking school of France and has owned several restaurants in Southern California, including Panama Reds in Brentwood and Santa Barbara. Earle said the couple will live at the auto magnate's home in Bloomfield Hills, Mich.

She has three children from a first marriage.

Inspired by box-office success, young black filmmakers are doing movies their own way and, in the process, creating a new black cinema movement, "House Party" producer Warrington Hudlin says.

Hudlin, former president of the New York-based Black Filmmakers Foundation, said movies like "She's Gotta Have It," "Hollywood Shuffle," "I'm Gonna Git You, Sucka!" and "To Sleep With Anger" have established the trend.

Filmmakers such as Spike Lee, Keenen Ivory Wayans and Charles Burnett aren't churning out '90s versions of "blaxploitation" movies of the 1970s, like "Shaft" and "Superfly," Hudlin said in a recent interview in Los Angeles.

"They're low-budget films aimed at a particular market, and some tremendous revenues have been generated," Hudlin said.

"The advantage that black filmmakers have is that because our particular experience in this country has been historically kept off-camera, we have 400 years of undocumented experience," he said. "So we can be free of those kind of dried-up, played-out formulas and get into some incredible human drama."