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FORT APACHE, THE BRONX Directed by Daniel Petrie Screenplay by Heywood Gould
...Fort Apache, The Bronx must be gratefully received, because it provides Newman with his first opportunity in years for a full-scale star turn. "Fort Apache" is the headquarters of New York City's 41st precinct, which encompasses the toughest black and Puerto Rican neighborhoods of the South Bronx. Newman plays a patrolman who is stuck in grade largely because of an excess of street-bred compassion. When the hard-nosed new precinct commander, Edward Asner, decides to shape up the 41st by launching wholesale arrests to nab suspects in the murder of two policemen, the residents run riot...
There is just one main road that interrupts the serenity of the Princeton campus. A slow jog along it will take you by the few businesses that service the students--an antiseptic Woolworth's, a cheerfully Tudor P.J.'s Pancake House, one lone movie theater advertising "Fort Apache, The Bronx." Before you know it you are out of the town and into the suburban area where graceful turn-of-the-century mansions are occasionally jurtaposed with modernistic concrete boxes, and where large expanses of land and water are dotted with honking brown geese...
...good setting for Apples; the floors are white, with rivers of fake blood, the living room is solid black, and the dining room, where she will be photographed, has a stainless steel floor and walls made of thousands of tiny mirrors. The photographer, a wiry fellow from the South Bronx with a reputation for freaky brilliance, believes that a photograph should be "a lie with a small measure of truth...
While family vacations kept him out of the pool during the summer, the former backstroke ace never wasted the rest of the year. Included in his 15 years of swimming were two as a member of Bernal's Gators, when that team was based in the Bronx...