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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...
...every bit as bad as the Muskie campaign was." Instead of concentrating their fire on the Republican enemy, many of the staffers have been sniping at one another. One of those hit was Fred Dutton, a key strategist, who has been demoted to coffee and sandwich pusher; McGovern grew weary of his countless memos. Among the more aggressive in-fighters has been Jean Westwood, the chairman of the Democratic National Committee. She has occasionally informed her fellow staffers that she is in charge of everything, on McGovern's orders. That, of course, nettles Gary Hart, who has been supervising...
Priest (Ron O'Neal) is a pusher and user of cocaine. He dresses stylishly, has lots of girls, lives high and wants out, for vague reasons that have mostly to do with plot. If Priest did not want out, then the big dealers would not be after him, the cops would not be hassling him, and there would be one less dreary, sleazy movie about high jinks and low life in the ghetto...
...Montreal, Stringer Kendal Windeyer had a few minutes of excitement after interviewing a heroin dealer in a local bar. Two undercover agents at a nearby table unexpectedly approached and arrested the pusher. As Windeyer fumbled for change to pay for the drinks and follow the police, he discovered in his pocket three glassine bags that had been planted there by his guest. Worried that the police would question him as soon as they found their suspect "clean," Windeyer went straight to the men's room. "Somewhere in the sewage system of western Montreal," he reports, "there is a couple...
...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...