Word: neale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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AMAZINGLY, BLACK ACTOR Ron O'Neal, the star of Super Fly, steadfastly defends his role as being productive and says the movie opposes drug use. "The anti-drug commercials on TV don't do much good because the kids can't relate," he explained last summer. "We showed them just what the pusher's life is like. We showed that although the pusher has money he wants to get out. I get away in the end because it really happens that way. We interviewed lots of coke peddlers and they told us they're walking the streets today because...
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...
...level reaction against what was happening in Vietnam if he had personal politics at all they were directed against our totalitarian cultural blandness and could not be specified particularly by the star of Marooned and The Chairman. Later talks with Jeremy Larner screenwriter of The Candidate and Ron O'Neal, the star of Super Fly did manage to reveal real intentions behind their respective huts...
...spoke with Ron O'Neal under quite different circumstances. As is often done for stars with commercial prospects, a studio representative and one of Sack Theaters invited a few critics to dine with the star at the suits. The interview was interspersed with casual conversation and the dining room's piano...
...Neal is a tall, bag and handsome man who lives in New York but speaks with an educated Midwest accent, unexpected after his portrayal of Super Fly, a live cokepusher named Priest. O'Neal led off by calling the production the "definitive black film...