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...bright side of this phenomenon is that these Wanna Be's (as in "We wanna be like Madonna!") could be out somewhere stealing hubcaps. Instead, all of them, hundreds of thousands of young blossoms whose actual ages run from a low of about eight to a high of perhaps 25, are saving up their baby- sitting money to buy cross-shaped earrings and fluorescent rubber bracelets like Madonna's, white lace tights that they will cut off at the ankles and black tube skirts that, out of view of their parents, they will roll down several turns at the waist...
...cast that was 80% black could easily fall prey to presumption and condescension. The pleasant surprise of The Brother is how gracefully Sayles earns smiles and sympathy for his hero (Joe Morton) and his lank, loping comedy. In a rattling subway car, a cardsharp announces his next trick-"Wanna see me make all the white people disappear?"-as the subway doors open at the last uptown express stop before Harlem...
Psst-anybody wanna buy a destroyer...
When the brothers get down to music and launch into Wanna Be Startin' Somethin', Michael, in good voice and fine form, steps forward again. The brothers blaze their way through a set of 16 tunes, and except for three compositions by his older brother Jermaine, Michael sings lead on them all. He spins, prances, glides, soars and generally gives a vivid illustration of why, after the Victory Tour ends, he will resume flying solo. Michael is the clear star of the show-a Thoroughbred running with pacers-but he always was, even in the Jackson 5 days...
...marred their judgment of what makes a good film. Moreover, even the youngest of the new Hollywood moguls can recall the heady months following Saturday Night Fever. The studios scrambled to duplicate that film's success and came up with such box-office flops as FM, I Wanna Hold Your Hand and Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Says Footloose Executive Producer Daniel Melnick: "If you don't have a picture the audience really enjoys, you could have 100 hours a week on MTV and it wouldn't help." On the other hand, Hollywood seems...