A Man Called Adam. According to the fantasies cherished by scenario writers, the decline and fall of a great jazz trumpeter never really gets under way until the musicman's sweetheart tells him, as she frequently does, "I won't let you be less than you are."
Since nearly every line of dialogue strikes a familiar blue note, the only way to justify still another fictional show-biz biography is to link it to the color question. Adam is a specialty act salted with social protest. It is played at a feverish pitch by Sammy Davis Jr.,...
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