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This movie has a fictional character portraying real life radio icon Frankie Crocker. For those of you who didn't live in NYC in thee late 60's and 70's Frankie Crocker owned NY radio and put WABC Music radio 77 out of business and spawned thee growth of FM radio. Frankie was all that Frankie Parker in the movie wasn't, smooth, hip, smart with a great voice, and always well dressed. In the movie Calvin Lockhart attempts to capture the essence that was the Cheif Rocker (Frankie Crocker) and falls way, way short. His portrayal was too frenetic, and lacked real hipness and sort of did a disservice to the real Frankie. Lockhart does resemble Crocker somewhat but that was as close as this movie comes to anything. As I watched this movie it reminded me of by Robert Townsend depicting formally trained actors trying to portray tough guys, some of the lines Lockhart delivers were LoL. Lockhart was much better later on in his career (see Uptown Saturday Nite). This movie would have been better served delving more into the radio business and the influence stars like Frani=kie, Jocko and Hal Jackson had on the black communitty at the time. If it wasn't for Melinda played by Vonetta McGeee who was our beauty of that time and Rosiland Cash who was the quintessential actress who once again put it down this move would be unbearable to watch. Unfortunately this gets labled Blaxploitation because of the fake tough guy acts from the white syndicate dudes to the football player, non of the so called tough guys in this movie are believeable, and isnt what these movies where supposed to be about? Anyway if you are a fan of Rosiland Cash or Vonetta McGee get this movie


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