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...Penn team that had been laughing and moving half-heartedly through pre-game warmups was reduced to a relieved bunch that ran off the floor with a new respect for this Harvard squad...
...understand why things can't go back to normal at the end of the half-hour, like The Brady Bunch," one of the kids remarks as a new mini- crisis takes its place beside the last one nobody quite solved. "Because," someone replies, "Mr. Brady died of AIDS...
...idea that a 1970s sitcom could seem like paradise lost to a bunch of recent college grads looking (and not looking) for entry-level jobs while trying to find entry-level understanding of adulthood is a measure of something. The downsizing of American possibilities, maybe. Or the murkiness of American reality as it's refracted in sound-bite TV and a trashy commercial culture...
Troy is just the kind of broody lout a young woman like Lelaina goes for, despite the fact that junior TV-exec Michael (played by Stiller) is wooing her. Their triangle provides what passes for narrative structure, and its resolution is perhaps just a little too Brady Bunch -- that is, too nice and neat. But that's a small price to pay for a movie in which Vickie, confronting a small, unexpected example of decency, finds it "screws up all my old ideas of good and evil." And in which a despondent Lelaina, seeking solace from an 800-number therapist...
Included in this bunch are Rankin, with his team-leading 13.2 points-per-game and his 5.5 rebounds-per-game; sophomore Mike Gilmore (10.8 ppg, 3.4 rpg, plus the League's highest free-throw percentage); junior James White (8.4 ppg, 1.6 rpg, 43% three-point accuracy); and junior Jared Leake (7.2 ppg, 3.9 rpg, and a League-leading 2.2 steals per contest...