Word: marlon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jackie is 20, Tito 17, Jermaine 16, Marlon 14. They sing some, and play guitar. Michael, the lead singer, is twelve. They are brothers, and taken together they add up to the Jackson Five, a group that in hardly more than a year-has become the biggest thing to hit Pop Capitalism since the advent of the Beatles. They had four hit singles in 1970, two more already this year, four albums, with all ten releases selling in the millions, and one (I'll Be There) already well over 4,000,000. Teen-age girls besiege their home...
...Following Day was a surrealistic, purposely ambiguous thriller-at least it was when it was shown in movie theaters in 1969. Originally, the plot revolved round the adolescent daughter of a European millionaire who was apparently kidnaped by a gang of kinky criminals (including Rita Moreno, Richard Boone and Marlon Brando) and carried off to a deserted beach house, where she was held for ransom, threatened sexually and tortured by members of the gang. Cornfield's last scene, however, implied that perhaps the girl's whole story was just the momentary, erotic fantasy of a troubled teenager. Universal...
...means of transport ever suffered a worse drubbing than the motorcycle? In the 17 years since Stanley Kramer put Marlon Brando astride a Triumph in The Wild One, big bikes and those who ride them have been made into apocalyptic images of aggression and revolt -Greasy Rider on an iron horse with 74-cu.-in. lungs and ape-hanger bars, booming down the freeway to rape John Doe's daughter behind the white clapboard bank: swastikas, burnt rubber, crab lice and filthy denim. It has long been obvious that the bike was heir to the cowboy's horse...
...setting is the fictitious Lesser Antillean island of Queimada (Portuguese for "burn") in the 1830s. Sir William Walker (Marlon Brando) is an adventurer employed by the British Admiralty to foment a revolution in the Portuguese colony. Walker realizes that the island's blacks are too downtrodden to grasp political rebellion, so he invites them to participate in something they can appreciate: a bank robbery. He baits a strapping porter named José Dolores (Evaristo Marquez) to anger, then decides he is the man to lead the black bandits. With Machiavellian guile he hides the bandits in a jungle village...
...really should care is Gould. His recent string of movies (MASH, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, Getting Straight) are all doing booming business, but M-A-S-H is still his only first-rate film. He would do well to study the sagging box-office strength of Marlon Brando and Peter Sellers after too many years of carrying bad movies on good shoulders...