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Greg C. Clayman '95 is wearing a shirt with a picture of Barbie and her name below in swirling pink letters. She comes complete with a real metal hoop earning. "This is my favorite t-shirt," Clayman says. "I guess it's not that cool a shirt, but Traci Lords gave it to me and that's why I wear it. It reminds me of her." Okay. I encounter Clayman a second time and inquire about another shirt which he is wearing. "Please don't describe this t-shirt. It belongs to an ex-girlfriend of mine...
This is not to say that L.A. is a city without problems. The new subway project is a mess. (Given its beautiful weather, Los Angeles is not a city meant to be traveled underground.) The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences didn't nominate Hoop Dreams for a best documentary Oscar. Crime remains frighteningly high. And white flight in some Southern California communities threatens to break up the multiethnic mold that is the secret to the area's past and future success...
HOOPLA OVER HOOP DREAMS...
Thanks for your perceptive article on the controversy over Hoop Dreams' not getting an Oscar nomination for Best Documentary Feature [Show Business, Feb. 27]. However, Richard Corliss referred to the possibility that the documentary nominating committee may have preferred a no-risk, PBS-style format," and I feel it necessary to set the record straight: Hoop Dreams, in fact, is a public-broadcasting project. It was a co-production of St. Paul's Twin Cities Public Television and Chicago's Kartemquin Educational Films, and was funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and PBS (among others). This risk-taking film...
...Kathy] told me to look for my shot in the first half," Flandermeyer said. "At halftime, I just spent some time alone and thought about putting the ball in the hoop and going up strong...