Word: brotherism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Beware, Brother beware...
...high point of the album, a superfunky update of a thirties song called "Beware, Brother Beware," more than compensates, however. The lyrics, a warning to single men to be on the look-out for those women who are out to turn them into husbands, is a perfect vehicle for Bromberg's city-slick, street-wise voice. With a tight horn section and the funkiest of rhythm sections behind him, he warns the poor unsuspecting male...
...ways than even he cares to admit. "Richard's just like the old man," says a colleague who has worked with both. "You could talk to either one of them and know he was in another world thinking about some theory and not hearing a word you said." Says Brother Jonathan: "Just like his father, Richard is involved in ten different things at the same time. He's very ambitious...
...film. There is an old man (Roberts Blossom), a senile mumbler who springs to youthful life when he is gossiping with truckers; his caretaker son (Paul Le Mat) who sets himself up as a kind of CB vigilante, policing those who abuse CB privileges; an athletic-coach brother (Bruce McGill) who hates both of them and anonymously threatens vengeance on them; a schoolteacher (Candy Clark) who has had it off with both of them, but who turns out to be the aforementioned dirty talker and is sexually alive only when she's plugged into the Citizens Band...
Spellacy's own career was blotched by petty corruption, his private life by weaknesses of the flesh. Still he remains cheerful, for like his brother the Rt. Rev. Desmond Spellacy, chancellor of the Los Angeles archdiocese and an outstanding golfer, Tommy knows that vice is far more interesting than virtue. For wickedness offers the double pleasure of sinning and confessing...