"On the basis of "SuperFly", many predicted that O'Neal would become the biggest black star since Sidney Poitier: he has the looks, screen presence, raging vitality and acting ability to carve a niche for himself in screen history. Ron O'Neal lives the part with a kind of furious authority that is sometimes excessive more often expressive of of a role that belongs as much to current myth as to reality." -From review of "Super Fly" by Roger Greenspun, THE NEW YORK TIMES, August 5, 1972. "Tall, handsome, with flowing hair and coat, with flashing eyes, and a gold cross around his neck that he uses to sniff his own cocaine, Priest must embody a lifetime of fantasies, with his mammoth car, his apartment downtown, his rich and elegant women.
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