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...started to bake a victory with three runs in the first two innings, but then the Bosox, gettin'tough when the goin is rough, made the scorekeeper work for his buck with five explosive scores in the third that turned the tide of battle...
Frazier's mother was "a real church-goin' lady" who taught him "respectafulness," but he began questioning things that black kids were not supposed to question. Nicknamed Billy, supposedly because he could hit like a billy club, he was soon getting into scrapes with the Man. Once when he was 14, a white man called him nigger. Joe called the man cracker. As Joe recalls it now, "The man said, 'Come here, boy, and I'll straighten you out.' I told him, 'You come here,' and he did and, man, I straightened that fella out." Mamma?who forbade...
...Goin' Down the Road owes much to the early DeSica in its attempts to communicate the feeling of a life-style by approaching its subject in its own terms, on its own grounds, avoiding the poetic affects a detached narrative viewpoint allows. It is the characters', not the director's moods we see being indulged. But Peter and Joey are simply not complex enough to carry a feature-length film...
...SHOULD, I suppose, be impressed by Goin' Down the Road as a first film. It is extra-ordinarily well-acted by Doug (Peter) McGrath and Paul (Joey) Bradley, carefully photographed and edited-technically proficient. But its director displays an extremely limited intelligence, an interest in people on the most superficial level. He tries to consider their emotional make-up divorced from their serious social inter-actions, and ends up with roadhouse cliche...
...Goin' Down the Road is a product of its creator's lack of perspective. If it weren't so sincerely misguided, it would be highly offensive...