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Here's one way to think of it: 20 years ago, Kareem and 208 other men were playing in the NBA. By the end of the '70s, 18 of them remained. In 1983, two. When Elvin Hayes -- Kareem's particular college rival -- retired from the Houston Rockets in 1984, one. Since then, just Kareem. He has amassed the most games (1,525) and points (38,028) in history, but the telling indicator is that only three scorers in the league today have been even half as prolific. Recalling players past, he says, "They've come and gone by generations...
...cult knows where to find him: playing fringe characters in fringe features like Videodrome and, just a couple of months ago, portraying a man succumbing to the twin addictions of ambition and drugs in The Boost. His Oscar nomination was for Salvador, a feverish performance of Yanqui journalism confronting Latin revolution that never found the audience it deserved. The big crowd, catching Woods occasionally on television or doing heavy duty in a mainstream movie, has yet to get his message. Or maybe that message is too clear and the public hates what it is hearing...
Neither is the plot in which writer Wesley Strick and director Joseph Ruben (himself something of a cult figure for The Stepfather two years ago) enmesh him. Eddie's main business may be straightforward enough: to free from Sing Sing a Korean American named Shu Kai Kim (Yuji Okumoto), who is doing hard, not to say life-threatening time for a murder he did not commit. But the path to belated justice is a sleazy maze, twisted as a paranoiac's logic. A key witness is a man who believes the telephone company assassinated John F. Kennedy...
Schroeder's Harvard ties extend deeper than an academic weekend, though. A 1964 graduate of the Law School, Schroeder is a close friend of Judith Richards Hope, who was named two weeks ago to a spot on the Harvard Corporation, the University's seven-member governing body...
...nights ago, for probably the 40th time this year, I was approached by a homeless person seeking alms. And, for the 40th time this year, I was assailed by guilt and doubt about what...