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...flare of gang anger can lead to sudden death. One such incident sends two greasers, Ponyboy (C. Thomas Howell) and Johnny (Ralph Macchio), on a trek away from Tulsa to live on the lam and find new ways of being brave and getting hurt. Another greaser, Dallas (Matt Dillon), provides a role model for sexy self-destruction. The bleak moral of Francis Coppola's movie, based on an S.E. Hinton novel that has sold 4 million copies in the U.S., is that you can do good or do bad-but everybody dies...
...romanticized enough to be seen as avatars of the outlaw lovers in Frank Borzage's Moonrise or Nicholas Ray's They Live by Night. Like the greasers, The Outsiders often seems to be busily, handsomely going nowhere. Coppola, however, is generous with his fine young actors (excepting Dillon, whose coltish charm is fast becoming a festival of Method mannerisms). It is easy to sense Coppola's identification with these boys, and with the feeling of going it alone against all odds that has made this protean writer-director-producer Hollywood's most famous and flamboyant outsider...
March 24, 9:40 a.m.--The lock on locker #669 at Dillon Field House was damaged by unknown means. Nothing was missing. No suspicious persons were seen and no arrests have been made...
...repartee, from Timothy Mayer's script, too often seems equally adrift. While former "Saturday Night Live" regular Denny Dillon performs confidently as Billy's mechanic, Lotus, her character soon becomes tiring. She refers to Edythe as "sea slime," but elsewhere her lines lose their freshness, especially in one explicitly excremental description of the Prince's brain. The book also forces Tune to reflect upon the time before everyone's birth, when we were "up swimming around in the sky waiting for the Lord to imagine...
...diving, sophomore All-American Dan Watson led a Harvard sweep on both the one-meter and three-meter boards, bouncing to scores of 372.60 and 408.45, respectively. Those marks broke his own University seconds, and the three-meter score broke a Dillon Pool record that had stood for seven years...