Word: nesmith
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Black cadet, Kevin Nesmith, later dropped out of the school, citing continued harassment and distress resulting from the incident. Nesmith filed a complaint with the Justice Department alleging racial harassment at the state military college...
...NAACP has threatened a broader legal challenge, a suit against The Citadel for more than 14 civil rights grievances--including allegations that the school violated Nesmith's civil rights, restricts freedom of speech and assembly on campus. More CIA Protests, More Protests...
Remember the Pre-Fab Four of 20 years ago, those insufferably cute kids who were selected, packaged and relentlessly promoted as TV's answer to the Beatles? Then you may also recall that despite a nearly total absence of musical talent, David Jones, Peter Tork, Michael Nesmith and Mickey Dolenz, the Monkees, confounded the critics and rock snobs by turning out a fresh, funny show and some major hits, including I'm a Believer and Last Train to Clarksville. Now three of the four -- minus Nesmith, a film producer who, says Dolenz, "isn't into it anymore...
Sound a little psychotic? That's the whole point of Repo Man, a movie which unabashedly aims to wallow in its own neurotic. Road Warrior or Decline--Repo Man, the first film by Mike Nesmith (yes, the guy from the Monkees), can't seem to decide which it wants to be, and so it is a mishmash of the two, which is not necessarily a bad thing, though it doesn't work here. Slap-dash road violence in the post-nuclear age (or pre-, as the case may be) and the pathetic tribulations of alienated punks--the two mix seamlessly...
WHAT IS the point Nesmith is driving at, except the absolute futility of the modern world, as seen through the eyes of a twenty-year-old, out-of-work punk? Is it that life is not worth living? Or that life can't be lived--that events are beyond our control? Clearly, this movie's makers wanted to let us in on some Inner Message, but the connection between the weirdness on screen and this message is never made clear. The opaqueness of Nesmith's vision in the end makes Repo Man--well...dell, with only a very cool hardcore...