Word: cannonism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Black Panthers is what we need as an equalizer," explained Seaman James Cannon of Gary, Ind. "The beast [white man] got his Ku Klux Klan. The Black Panthers gives the beast something to fear like we feared from the Ku Klux Klan all our lives." Said Seaman Milton Banion of Maywood, Ill., another sailor at Danang: "The honkies made the Panthers violent like they are. I'd join 'em, and I'd help 'em kill all these honkie motherfuckers, because do unto him before he do unto you." Albert Jackson of Chicago, a black Marine stationed at Chu Lai, promised...
Presidents responded to such depredations with fleets, Marines and righteous cannon fire-as when Thomas Jefferson dispatched U.S. frigates under Stephen Decatur to clean out the Barbary pirates who menaced American trade in the Mediterranean. Wistfully truculent, California's Governor Ronald Reagan complained last week: "It used to be that an American could simply pin a little American flag on him and be safe even in the midst of a revolution in some other country, because the world knew that this country would go any place in the world to get back any citizen of ours." Richard Nixon argued...
...interested in making good movies. But they also talk about "markets" and "products" just as coolly as any grizzled veteran of the Hollywood studios. "The horror market is wide open," Chris Dewey says. "What we'd really like to do is the Easy Rider of horror movies." Cannon even adopts the big-studio system of cutting movies, and even reshooting and adding scenes if the film maker's version doesn't please them...
Riding high on Joe's box-office booty, the Cannon Group, which now includes some 20 employees and six titled executives, is looking at masses of scripts. "It's a mammoth job," says Dewey. "We have them read." Already scheduled, for production or for imminent release, are a film by Novelist Howard Fast called The Hessian, set during the American Revolution "but with contemporary overtones," an Israeli comedy called Lupo, which is intended to "scoop" Fiddler on the Roof, and a movie about demolition derbies called Jump...
...also one of the surest signs of success. Jump, which is about stock-car racers in Appalachia, is described as "like The Hustler, except that the Paul Newman character doesn't have a pool cue-he drives a car." The budget on that one will be Cannon's limit, $300,000. With that kind of money, they reason, even if the picture bombs in the big Northern cities, they can still turn a handy profit down South...