Word: holden
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Holden On Once Again...
Frank Sullivan will have one of his former players return to him this coming basketball season. After playing under Sullivan, who at the time was the head coach at Bentley College in the late 80s, Bill Holden makes a move to the Ivy League...
Affleck is best known for his roles as Shannon Hamilton in Mallrats and as Holden McNeil in Chasing Amy, both written and directed by Kevin Smith. Damon played Ilario in Courage Under Fire...
...their part, students are depicted as at their most alive when they have as little to do with school as possible. Huck and Holden light out for their respective territories; Ferris Bueller is the god of glorious truancy. Or make an Animal House, and trash the joint. School is anticreativity, antifreedom, anti-American--an attitude only logically contradicted by a society that insists on higher education for all and accreditations up to the eyeballs...
Case in point: Holden McNeil (Ben Affleck). He draws underground comic books with his boyhood pal Banky (Jason Lee). Then he meets Alyssa (Joey Lauren Adams), also a comix artist, and falls into obsession. The problem is, she's a lesbian. Well, nobody's perfect. And, indeed, she's not perfectly gay, for eventually she succumbs to Holden's passion. This makes him feel terrific--the superstud who has conquered the unconquerable. Except that Banky--who has some homoerotic issues of his own to sort out--discovers otherwise. Alyssa has had male lovers in the past. This devastates Holden...