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SUPER FLY (right) brings urban black cool to movie theaters across America. Director Gordon Parks Jr. would later direct the movies Three the Hard Way and Aaron Loves Angela before dying in a plane crash while filming in Nairobi, Kenya, in 1979.
THE TEMPTATIONS top the Billboard pop chart with their groovy anthem ''Papa Was a Rollin' Stone,'' which would be the group's last single to make it to No. 1.
RICHARD BACH'S New Agey allegory Jonathan Livingston Seagull is perched atop the fiction chart.
AND THE SHORT-LIVED space-age musical Via Galactica opens at the Uris Theatre in New York City, starring Raul Julia and a 13-year-old Irene Cara, who would go on to star in the 1980 hit film Fame and win a 1983 Grammy for Flashdance's title song. Julia, after starring in the Addams Family films, would die of a stroke in 1994.
