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Super Fly. The best of the black superhero flicks (that's not saying much). Ron O'Neal plays Priest, a young Harlem coke-pusher who wants to get out of his trade. Gripping, and sociologically interesting though Curt Mayfield's music is the best thing about...
...Super Fly comes through as a pretty slick package. Backed by vibrant Curtis Mayfield songs about pusher men, it may just present its audience with a dream image; but this image is healthier than the others that are being pushed around...
...Mayfield Village, Ohio...
...only two new songs (which comprise two-thirds of Bonnie's song-writing output). One of the originals, "Finest Lovin' Man" is a straight blues, featuring exciting instrumental work by Bonnie, Junior Wells on harp, and Danny Freebo on Bass. "Thank You" is a pretty ballad in the Curtis Mayfield vein, with Bonnie on piano and Willie Murphy playing a beautiful soft lead guitar...
...Mayfield," a highly skilled, 43-year-old career sergeant, devised forlornly human techniques-separating the newly arrived married men into different platoons, for example, to reduce the danger that they would all be killed at once. Medics are allowed in the field only seven months because they start developing an obsessive sense of responsibility. Says Glasser, "They begin getting freaky, cutting down on their own water and food so they can carry more medical supplies; stealing plasma bottles, writing parents and friends for medical catalogues so they can buy their own endotracheal tubes." Some carried M & M candies as placebos...