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Performance. With Mick Jagger. An overdone display of far out paraphernalia; it is packed with easy plays for sensationalism, but they are old. And except for Jagger in a Batman black skin suit, it is boring. Orson Welles...
...department actually works. The plot is a tangle of corruption, sex scandals, blackmail and professional and family loyalties. The Super Cops are Dave Greenberg and Bob Hantz, two real police heroes who patrolled a black Brooklyn ghetto with such derring-do that drug pushers and grateful residents dubbed them Batman and Robin. Also nonfiction, Serpico is about Frank Serpico, the patrolman whose charges of widespread corruption in the New York police department were eventually documented by the Knapp Commission...
...Captain Midnight magic decoder. Luckily enough, the bad guys never seem to notice when the agent starts chattering to himself or cocks his head to listen to Control Director Burgess Meredith, who still seems to quack the way he did when he played the Penguin on the old Batman series...
...Black Man is here to stay. Thanks to Tom Floyd, a Gary, Ind., commercial artist, young blacks can look up to an authentic soul hero. The first edition of Black Man Comics will shortly hit the newsstands with a very soulful twist on the requisite introductory issue: like Superman, Batman and Captain Marvel, Black Man is born of the transformation of a clean-cut young man into a creature possessed of superhuman powers...
...SOMEONE who used to be Dean Acheson's roommate, Cole Porter has come a long way. In the Grand tradition of hula hoops, the Twist, and Batman, he has become a raging American fad, and, although the Porter fad will probably wear out its welcome with the great American populace as quickly as its predecessors, we may as well drink the wine while we have it, Nunc est bibendum...