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...dozen years ago, basketball didn't amount to nearly so much beyond the community gym. The pros were dismal, near bankruptcy. March Madness had not been invented by the impresarios. David Morton of the Amateur Athletic Union thinks the 1979 game between Indiana State and Michigan State, featuring Larry Bird and Magic Johnson, "lit the flame under college basketball" that carried a new excitement through the pros and down into the high schools...
...pros developed superstars Bird, Johnson, Julius Erving and Michael Jordan, with their mind-boggling athleticism and their equally stunning earnings ($35 million for Jordan this year). A renewed spirit and loyalty swept college basketball as television began to hype March. And down below, in the great dribbling masses, the kids with basketballs tucked in bed with them watched and watched and practiced and practiced and waited. Thus a culture was created...
...there. Yes, Bobby Plump. For those few deprived Americans who did not see the movie Hoosiers, Bobby is the kid who made the shot in the final seconds that won the state championship for Milan, the smallest Indiana town (pop. 1,000) ever to achieve the title. A Larry Bird he never became. At 5 ft. 10 in., he sold insurance and financial services and never regretted it. He has a memory as rich and deep as the whole N.B.A. He'll tell the story over and over this week and never tire...
...play is almost uniformly excellent. Even the supporting cast is funny--Colin Stokes, in particular, is fantastic as Gavin, a drug counselor just discovering the wonder of controlled substances. Bess Wohl, as T.V. reporter Corinne Le Mans, is irritating in her best scenes, flapping around the stage like a bird about to take flight, but gives the single funniest performance of the entire play after meeting "Lucy...
...stations; and Real News for Kids, a Turner Broadcasting production carried on 210. NBC has a new Saturday-morning entry in the field: Name Your Adventure, in which kids are given a chance to live out fantasies. The Children's Television Workshop, which gave birth to Big Bird for PBS, is developing an animated show for ABC next fall based on David Macaulay's book The Way Things Work...