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Basketball as birth control: the sublimating trajectory of ball to hoop cartooned the urgent, intimate quest of sperm to ovum--and, so to speak, contracepted it. Basketball converted raw adolescent pagan fuel to a useful chastity--that is, to play. For years when I saw teenagers on the court shooting baskets, I would say to myself, "I know what's on your minds, you dirty boys...
...There are still a few hoops to jump through," says Jeffrey Logsdon, entertainment analyst for the Los Angeles-based Seidler Companies. "Malone is a big hoop. A role for Ted is a big hoop. But if it works, Time Warner will be such a large entity that it shrinks the universe of who can bother you. You eliminate three-quarters of the buyers who could attempt a takeover." Notable exception: General Electric...
...HOOP NIGHTMARES...
...movements of the rest of the characters are appropriate as well. The Pelican Man is necessarily gawky, Thimblerigger is quick and agressive and Fat-Black-Knit-Sweater-Women's roundness is in her motions as well as her hula hoop and padded costume...
Well, he is. He's the subject of a spooky spellbinder called Crumb. With all due respect to Hoop Dreams, and with none to the inbred documentary-screening-committee clan of the Motion Picture Academy, which handed this year's Oscar to a former chair of that committee, Crumb is the one that should...