Word: fathered
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...scientific logic is silly and annoying, but since the movie's premise is already ridiculous--who cares? The first part of the movie is carried by Spacek and Walken. With his pasty face and taped-up glasses, Walken skillfully combines the roles of the paranoid scientist and conservative father. His brief foray into the world of hookers and porn shops is a scream. Spacek is convincing as a perky housewife with secret drunken tendencies and a potential for a nervous breakdown. When they rejoice, they do the twist. Fortunately for the movie, they know when to perk up their Ozzie...
...Purple Knights are on the verge of clenching the New Orleans colored city championship. They know, however, that their victory is not complete; Travis is determined to find out how they stack up against Jesuit, the best white team in the city. When the St. Augustine coach leaves suddenly, Father Verrett (Homicide's Andre Braugher) takes over as coach. A determined desegregationist from Baltimore, Verrett seizes on the idea of a game with Jesuit as a way to quicken the pace of reform in New Orleans...
...movement. The frustration felt by Travis' family and blacks in New Orleans is palpable, but it is tempered with the realization that safety requires them to eschew radical forms of protest. Passing Glory also highlights the struggle within Catholic Church against racial injustice. In one of the opening scenes, Father Grant announces that the Louisiana High School Athletic Association has again turned down St. Augustine's petition for integrated basketball games. Many people within the archdiocese are frustrated by segregation but do not know what action they can take to remedy...
...Grant. Tension results between the two friends when they cannot agree on the best way to combat segregation. Verrett pursues equality with an almost reckless passion, while Grant still hopes to effect change through official channels. This same sort of tension is played out convincingly between Travis and his father, whose concern for Travis' safety makes him a constant check on his son's determined idealism...
...Mills) threatens to ban Rock 'n Roll in exchange for campaign funding from disco-freak Hal Elujah; in order to save Rock 'n Roll, Elvis impersonator Al Shookup (Seth Fenton) travels back in time from the year 2099 to Philadelphia in 1787, where he elicits the help of Founding Father sidekick Brook Worm (Adam "Waka" Green...