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...CURRENT SPATE of films starring, written and directed by blacks is filling urban movie houses and treating ethnic audiences to fantasy visions previously only colored white. Machismo, even in its white variety, is a hideous subject for glorification. But the black supermen in these movies roister about the contemporary cityscape like hyper Sam Spades without the Hammett moral sense. Sweetback or Shaft are totally ruthless people, oppressed by whites but equally disgusted by the lack of effectiveness of black community and cultural leaders. They are agents who wish to be totally free, and are concerned solely with their personal vendettas...
Morey, morey, fairy story, boola, boola, bah! Hmmph, mmph, wmmph, lymph dee doo dah. Bulldog, wooldog, fooldog, boo. Brewster rooster, roister doister, down the oyster, in the sea. You see, Pusey, we see VC, that's why we see victory...
...Negro in the Hollywood big time, charged the screen with black lightning; A Star Is Born, the three-hour musical version of 1937's big hit, set Judy Garland back on top of the heap as a musicomedienne; and Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, a high old roister-doister of a show, in which the legendary rape of the Sabine women, as adapted from Stephen Vincent Benet, was reset (with concessions to the censor) in backwoods Oregon, was larded out with some swell songs and dances...
...days, Batista liked to roister long past midnight with ex-sergeant cronies. Now the ex-sergeants are out of the picture, and Batista is alone. The Strong Man is a big boy now. As one Cuban says: "Batista does not love and does not hate. He will sacrifice his best friend and pardon his bitterest enemy if it serves his purpose." This political formula has not made him popular, but it works. Smiles Batista: "I am a dictator with the people...
MAYHEM IN B-FiAT-Elliot Paul-Random House ($2). Moritz the miraculous Boxer (a dog) makes his debut with the familiar cast of Homer Evans, detective, dead-eye Miriam, Inspector Fremont and his dusky Hydrangea, Hjalmar Jansen the crockery smasher, the Singe, Godo the Whack, et al., roister-doistering from Paris to Rouen and back by water, land and haystack. Funniest murder story yet from veteran Mr. Paul, whose higher-browed books include The Life & Death of a Spanish Town...