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...wonders and we wonder. The scene is from Steve James, Frederick Marx, and Peter Gilbert's brilliant documentary "Hoop Dreams," a lyrical meditation on basketball, ambition and the depravity of inner-city life. Gates is one of the film's truth-tellers. He is aware--if only at moments--of the terrible burden of potential and its cruel habit of leaving behind a trail of unfulfilled dreams and unrealized promise...
...Hoop Dreams" tells the charged and turbulent stories of two inner-city Chicago teenagers, William Gates and Arthur Agee. Both aspire to careers in professional basketball, and both spend their adolescent years on their respective neighborhood courts. Film makers Steve James, Frederick Marx and Peter Gilbert follow the pair for five full years, beginning with freshman year of high school and ending with freshman year of college, through family struggles, vibrant victories, and finally to the harsh realities that undercut the "dreams" of the film's title. William and Arthur's dreams are born, cultivated, encouraged, exploited and destroyed...
...journalists-in-training, perhaps Crimson writers ought to concern themselves a bit more with the historical accuracy of their articles, especially questions so simple as the non-fictional nature of one of Hollywood's most memorable women. Douglas R. Millar '96 Historian, Gilbert and Sullivan Players
...people will dream the implausible dream, especially if they are agile black boys in a neighborhood ravaged by crime, and their only other options are fast-food chef and drug runner. Hoop Dreams, the powerful new documentary by Steve James, Fred Marx and Peter Gilbert, follows two basketball players from the Chicago projects as they pursue their calling through full or partial scholarships to suburban St. Joseph High School, which is a three-hour round trip and social light years away from home...
...Undergraduate Council, whose headquarters have traditionally been in Canaday, has been moved to the newly redone basement of Holworthy, Flatley-Wheaton says. The student government will be joined by the Black Students Association, Citystep, the Gilbert and Sullivan Players, the Harvard Mediation Service, the International Students Council and the Review of Philosophy...