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...Dutiful Daughter, D-Day Remembered, Freedom on My Mind, A Great Day in Harlem and Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision. One of these films will win this year's Oscar for Best Documentary Feature. And a host of moviewise people will mutter, "Yeah, well, it shoulda been Hoop Dreams...
Aside from the campaign for President, the Oscar derby is America's most contentious horse race. Last week, when the year's nominations were announced, much of the noise was about one of the losers: Hoop Dreams, the story of two high school basketball stars from Chicago's ghetto. This potent family epic touched critics and audiences. Many felt it might get a Best Picture nomination, unheard of for a documentary...
Losing Feaster would have been tough in any setting for the Crimson, which has come to rely on her ability to clear people out underneath the hoop and her 16.5 points per game. Losing her was particularly tough, however, for two very specific reasons: Feaster had already scored a career-high 27 points, and Penn had cut Harvard's 18-point second half lead to a scant 10-point advantage...
...Broadway" and "The Shawshank Redemption" -- had seven nominations apiece. The other best picture nominees were "Pulp Fiction," "The Shawshank Redemption," "The Quiz Show" and "Four Weddings and a Funeral." TIME Los Angeles correspondent Jeffrey Ressner says the day's biggest surprise was the Academy's passing over the acclaimed "Hoop Dreams" for best documentary feature, a move that "had most people's jaws dropping" and cemented a trend in which prominent commercial documentaries have been overlooked. Also unexpected, Ressner says, were the best picture nod for "Shawshank," a "dank prison film with a unwieldy title," and Woody Allen's best...
...quite right. The really slick American city game is played by college and high school coaches, sports agents, shoe manufacturers, sportswriters and TV producers. It involves conning kids--mostly poor black kids--into believing that they can grow up to play professional basketball. The fine documentary film Hoop Dreams shows how the game is played with high school basketballers in Chicago, and now Darcy Frey's thoughtful, sharply observed book, The Last Shot (Houghton Mifflin; 230 pages), spells out its consequences for students at Abraham Lincoln High School in the bleak Coney Island section of Brooklyn, New York...