Word: benning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sylvia's doctor father sternly forbids contact between them; it endangers his hard-won position. Ben's father Nate (Joe Mantegna) is distractedly against it too, though most of his attention is focused on his two troubled businesses--a failing burlesque house and a numbers racket threatened by an obstreperous black man named Little Melvin (Orlando Jones), who portends the violent, irrational '60s, just a historical nanosecond away...
...setting is again the Baltimore, Md., of Levinson's youth, source of Diner, Tin Men and Avalon. This time his alter ego is a smart, sweet-souled teenager named Ben (Ben Foster) who, having lived all his life in a Jewish enclave, is astonished to discover that most of the world is not, after all, Jewish. That's particularly true of Sylvia (the uncannily cool, wise and beautiful Rebekah Johnson), who is one of the token blacks in his newly integrated school. Their relationship is handled with great delicacy; this is a friendship that yearns to be, deserves...
Little Melvin will bring Nate--a decent guy despite his shabby work--to an uncomfortable end. Indeed, no one in this movie gets what he or she really wants or deserves. Even the romance between Ben's older brother Van (Adrien Brody) and his Wasp princess Dubbie (Carolyn Murphy) ends badly, when her ethereal perfection turns out to be only skin- (and coiffure-) deep...
...presidential candidates are Sterling P.A. Darling '01, Ben W. Dreyfus '01, Fentrice D. Driskell '01, Frank X. Leonard '01 and Todd E. Plants '01. The vice presidential candidates are John A. Burton '01, Nehal S. Patel '02, Catherine E. Tenney '01 and Ben M. Wikler...
...captains Ben Rosen and Brian Cadman have assumed the task of leading the Crimson this season, which finished eleventh in the NCAA tournament two years...