Word: supermanic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Juan in Hell. Without benefit of costumes, scenery or props this revival of the last long act of George Bernard Shaw's "Man and Superman" might be the season's most brilliant production. Coach Restic hopes Dartmouth will go to "Hell" this weekend, so why not join them...
...Newbury Award winning children's book, the movie deals powerfully and honestly with the life of black sharecroppers in the 1930's. Instead of black women parading lasciviously through Fifth Avenue apartments, it features Cicely Tyson as a strong and devoted black mother, Paul Winfield avoids the black superman stereotype as a loving but tough father who is interested only in dignity and a better life for his family. Sounder's success indicates what a black movie can and should...
...belated run toward greatness. Marriage to the well-dowried Charlotte Payne-Townshend in 1898, when he was already 41, relieved him at last of journalism's curse, the deadline. As if illustrating his own theory of the life force, Shaw hurled himself into writing plays. Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra and Major Barbara are among the choicest products of these years. At their dashing best, the letters read like mini-prefaces to the plays, minor skirmishes in the battle against the bourgeois that was the avowed essence of Shaw's art. Shaw laid down doctrine...
...sitcoms, is well-cast as Crocker Jarmon--rhetorically smooth, with the sincerity of a born exhibitionist and a rockribbed physical facade. But Peter Boyle steals the show as Marvin Lucas, McKay's mysterious New York-based campaign manager. Lucas is tough, and smart, and flexible, a Madison Avenue superman; but in his own oily way we feel he cares more seriously than anyone else in the drama about the election's outcome--and he alone almost raises the level of the picture to tragicomedy...
...like Black Man is here to stay. Thanks to Tom Floyd, a Gary, Ind., commercial artist, young blacks can look up to an authentic soul hero. The first edition of Black Man Comics will shortly hit the newsstands with a very soulful twist on the requisite introductory issue: like Superman, Batman and Captain Marvel, Black Man is born of the transformation of a clean-cut young man into a creature possessed of superhuman powers...