Word: marlon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...movie. That's what did it to us." Thirty years after Marlon Brando terrorized a small California town in The Wild One, his hooligan image has dogged motorcycle racing, says motocross expert Larry Maiern. "Most motorcyclists are thought of as being people who rob, loot, burn, rape and steal, and that just isn't true...
According to one of Michael's closest advisers, when it comes to matters of professional strategy or decision making, one of the world's biggest stars just says, "I'm one of six," and casts his vote with Jermaine, Tito, Marlon, Randy and Jackie. This is not a soul-brother Partridge Family: the Jacksons are generously gifted all round. But it is clear to everyone, especially the fans, that Michael is the main attraction. As a result, Michael inevitably took the brunt of the considerable grievances being voiced about the tour...
...thought to call out Tito, or dress down Marlon, never mind get heavy with the promoters. Michael, for all his fans and for most of the public at large, is the centerpiece of the tour, so last week he took center stage at a brief press conference in Kansas City. Dressed in spangled glove, dark shades, sequined band jacket and one of the red ceremonial sashes that make him look like a cultural ambassador from Sesame Street, he announced in a voice frayed by nerves that he had seen Ladonna Jones' letter. Therefore, he was asking the promoters...
...pain against both personal cruelty and international aggression, the song seems intended as a rejoinder to those who think Michael makes mostly good-time make-out music. As such, it stands in marked contrast to the rest of Victory, whose final cut, Body (written and performed by Marlon), is the ideal anthem for horny aerobicizers, with its chorus of "I want your body, I love your body, I need your body" repeated like a liturgy for ligaments...
...high in the stadium that you could be buzzed by low-flying aircraft; and yes, the four-ticket minimum-maximum and the computer-sorted coupons were painfully unwieldy. But they were a plausible means of attempting to cut out scalpers. "We were trying to protect our fans," insists Marlon. Says Randy: "We wanted to have everybody have a fair chance - to see the show without paying hundreds of dollars a ticket to scalpers...