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...exhibit presents a startling variety of works considered "American." It opens with three objects representing at first glance Native American, European and African-American cultural heritage: a contemporary sculpture by Creek Indian artist Joseph Johns, Gilbert Stuart's iconized portrait of George Washington, and a rubbing from a Cambridge Cemetery gravestone which reads, "Cicely, Negro, Late Servant to Ye Revd. Mr. William Brattle...
...excellent point about the cyclical nature of inner-city poverty and the way it is documented in the documentary "Hoop Dreams" ("Losing Life's Game," Opinion, Nov. 18, 1994). Unfortunately, I must take exception to his implications that the three film-makers, Steve James, Frederick Marx and Peter Gilbert, exploited the two players, Arthur Agee and William Gates...
Film-makers, reporters, journalists and others whose job it is to portray the truth and provide factual information are always confronted with moral dilemmas about to what extent they should allow themselves to get personally involved. Rascoff basically blasts James, Marx and Gilbert for not feeling any morals in the situation of the Agee family blackout...
James, Marx and Gilbert have faced many moral issues since their film was released to critical acclaim, as well as good box-office revenues. One such issue is whether Agee and Getes should be allowed to cash in on the financial success of "Hoop Dreams...
...public always criticizes the media for being biased, but perhaps the media feels a moral obligation to its public, which can be misconstrued as bias. However, if the media were totally impartial, they should not be subject to criticism, just as Steve James, Frederick Marx and Peter Gilbert should not. For the record, the film-makers did help pay the Agee family's electricity bill. But even if they didn't, they weren't in the wrong. Hayle Chun...