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Harvard and Brown exchanged baskets through the early part of the first half. Hadrick pulled out the first of several spectacular shots at the 16:35 mark, sinking a scoop-to-the-hoop and nailing the subsequent free throw to give Harvard a 7-6 lead...
...extending the offer of an education as well as venue in which to play sports, colleges are already performing an enormous service to young student-athletes. In the event that they blow out a knee on a drive to the hoop, their college degree will make it likely that they will be able to have some sort of life outside the lines. That's privilege enough in itself...
...when Hoop Dreams got stiffed, not only in the Best Picture category but also by the 47-member documentary selection committee, the snub spurred charges of corruption and artistic myopia. "It's a crime," fumes Wendy Finerman, a producer of Forrest Gump, which received 13 nominations. "This was one of the best documentaries of all time. The filmmakers were robbed." So fierce was the response that the Motion Picture Academy-a club with more secrets than the Masons-declared that it would examine the nominating procedure. "We always ask, 'Could our rules be changed?'" says Academy president Arthur Hiller...
...four months, Hoop Dreams has earned about $4 million at the box office-less than most Hollywood flops, but excellent for a documentary. To the nominating committee, Hoop Dreams may have been too popular, in no need of the publicity a nomination can give an unknown film. Michael Moore, whose Roger & Me is the all-time top-grossing documentary, calls this affirmative-action policy "a systematic effort to deny nominations to films that are considered the best by critics and the public...
Well, their friends got on a trivia list. But with Hoop Dreams-and another brilliant documentary, Crumb-missing, this Oscar category is like major league baseball. The heavy hitters aren't around, and replacement players have taken the field...