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...advantage, but when called upon to act, react or recite a line, they generally perform like stumbling automatons. The Beatles-thanks to the brilliance of Director Richard Lester-managed to escape. But it happened to Elvis, it happened to Sinatra at first, and it is happening now to Mick Jagger, rock's reigning Rolling Stone, who is currently on view in a couple of hapless films...
When someone talks about a pyramid, there is a flash cut of an erect nipple; when the hoodlum dyes his hair, there is a cut to the singer spray-painting a wall. James Fox is nevertheless excellent as the gangster, and Jagger seems to be having a lark. Few others will share his pleasure...
...Kelly is a Tony Richardson movie about a legendary Australian bandit, a kind of 19th century Robin Hood. In the title role, Mick sticks up banks and shoots a lot of policemen. But he pays for all that fun. As the hangman slips the inevitable noose around his neck, Jagger looks straight into the camera and says: "Such is life...
...potential of drug trips was an ignored or largely uninvestigated fact. Only now are we beginning to realize that hip college students and intellectuals are not the only drop-outs and trip-takers. Only now do we begin to realize fully the alternatives that John Lennon and Mick Jagger, peaceful Woodstock and murderous Altamont, Christ and Satan represent in terms of the counter culture. Only now is it becoming obvious that the underside of our culture is grist for the mill of the increasingly homicide-oriented national culture...
Sympathy for the Devil,* filmed in London in 1968, is rather formally divided into sections: Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones performing the title tune over and over again in a recording studio; a group of black guerrillas bloodying white girls and reading excerpts from black writers in an auto graveyard; and a wraithlike creature named Eve Democracy (Anne Wiazemski) wandering through the woods, giving an interview to a pursuing film crew. A narrator intrudes from time to time to read selections from a mythical political-pornographic novel (" 'You're my kind of girl, Pepita,' said Pope...