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...Journal said many notes began the same way: "While I do not support violence, I think Goetz was right." Hundreds of letters have gone to Goetz and his friends. One man, who identified himself as black, even wrote to one of the wounded youths: "Take time to think that whitey didn't do you in. You sure get no sympathy from us peace-loving, law- abiding blacks. We will even contribute to the guy that taught you a lesson...
...star vehicle, with Murphy as a Detroit police detective scouring Rodeo Drive for clues to the murder of a friend back home. The film's only function is to provide Murphy with the opportunity to work a dozen or so variations on his familiar and oddly endearing routine: top Whitey. All of white America is a classroom for Fast Eddie's crash course in street smarts and larcenous one-upmanship. And everyone loves it, in the movie and in the audience, because Murphy's jive is blessedly free of malice. Under the ghetto gutter talk lurks a sassy little...
...what Dr. Joyce Brothers and Donahue say, and get ever-resourceful disciplinarian Mr. Kurtz (Murphy Dunne). Wielding a Duracell-powered cattle-prod, Dunne drives the kids into the meditation room, a meat freezer with carcasses as wall décor. There, Piper meets his fellow prisoners: Mouse (Michael Hentz), Whitey (Joey Coleman), Blackie (Christopher Brown,) and Joey (Pamela Segall...
...Willy Loman. On holiday one escapes more than work or home. One leaves oneself behind. The idea of holiday is a change of person, the remaking of oneself in one's own image. The baseball camp for adults, for example, where the bulky stockbroker, facing an aged Whitey Ford, can imagine himself the slugger he never was: that's a holiday...
Peace proved to be a different matter. Nearly everyone quoted in Bloods reports a difficult journey back home: "I had left one war and came back and got into another one." This speaker joined the Black Panthers, but disillusionment set in: "All we wanted to do was kick whitey's ass. We didn't think about buying property or gaining economic independence. We were, in the end, just showing off." A few got in trouble with the law; others stayed in the service or became active in counseling other veterans and lobbying for their benefits...