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...difficulties have bothered both sides. Some Texan employees point to office signs exhorting them GOOD COMMUNICATIONS-SAY IT-DO IT-QUICK ACTION and suggest that they be retranslated into Japanese. A Japanese executive was bewildered one morning when an American salesman greeted him by drawling, "How're ya doin'?" Replied the boss: "I not yet doing. I just get here...
Musically, they're all really just getting started. Michael plays drums. He says he is learning piano too. "It's not hard. You just have to put your mind to what you doin'; that's all there is to it." Marlon says in his soft child-voice that he's a dancer, and Jermaine adds that Marlon is known around the house as "Las Vegas" because of his prowess with cards. It turns out that Jermaine is a poet, and that he and Michael (Michael does everything) draw pictures of people. Jackie likes to recall...
...have to try very hard to expose the poverty of the culture. The girls, the musicians have the same things to say over and over. Homosexuals backstage are beaten up and ridiculed. Lonely groupies talk about the good times when they were travelling with the big name groups, "doin' far out stuff, staying at the best hotels." But rarely does the camera do more than catalogue meetings and encounters, jumping from one group to another, from town to town, until even this straightforward visual style is muddled...
...music if I couldn't go near no nightclubs? One time they got me a job with a seed company in Lompoc. They had me standin' there with a brush this long, pollinatin' flowers. I was a human bee. If a brother had ever seen me doin' that, he'd cut me dead...
...youngsters had a few things going for them. One was a massive ex-gospel singer named Bernice Cole, who was called in by Chuck Griffin of the East Harlem Federation Youth Association. "When they asked me to start a choir," recalls Miss Cole, "I said 'Nothin' doin'. I don't think I have the patience anymore.' So of course I started in doing it. The kids had fun, but we didn't think of it as anything but a once-a-week get-together...