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Some evolution has taken place in this crippled genre. Take last month's "Losing Isaiah." Hmm, you think, could be about death, kidnapping or even a slam-bang lost-in-the-big-city caper. But no, "Losing Isaiah" draws its plot from the topical problem of surrogate motherhood. How did I know? Luckily, I saw the subheading: "Who Decides What Makes a Mother?" Yes, these titles have become so vague that a whole other title of unlimited length--defeating the entire original objective--becomes necessary...
Sony Fresh Pond. Fresh Pond Plaza.661-2900. On Thurs. "Blue Sky" at 1:30, 4:00, 6:30and 9:00 p.m. "Losing Isaiah" at 5:00 and 9:40p.m. "Brady Bunch at 2:45 and 7:40 p.m. "Born toBe Wild" at 1:00, 3:30, 6:15 and 8:45 p.m. "ByeBye Love" 2:30, 5:30, 8:15 and 10:30 p.m. "Man ofthe House" at 1:10, 3:50 and 7:10 p.m. "Outbreak"at 1:30, 4:20, 7:20 and 10:20 p.m. "Tommy Boy" at1:00, 4:00, 6:50 and 9:50 p.m. "Pulp...
Sony Fresh Pond. Fresh Pond Plaza.661-2900. On Thursday, March 23. "Lossing Isaiah"at 1:30, 4, 6:45 and 9:30 p.m. "Just Cause" at 5and 9:40 p.m.. "Brady Bunch" at 1, 3:15, 5:45,8:15 and 10:30 p.m. "Shallow Grave" at 3, 5:30, 8and 9:50 p.m. "Miami Rhapsody" at 2, 4:20, 6:35and 9:15 p.m. "Boys on the Side" at 12:45 and 6p.m. "Bye Bye Love" at 2:15, 4:45, 7:30 and 10:15p.m. "Man of the House" at 1:45, 4:10, 6:20 and 9p.m...
They are both recruited to attend St. Joseph's, a private high school an hour and a half away in the suburbs, reputed for its academics and even more for its basketball program. A faded cardboard cutout of Detroit Pistons legend Isaiah Thomas, who graduated from the school, decays in the trophy display case...
...unrelenting commodification of William and Arthur starts here. Aggressive and patronizing, St. Joseph's coach Gene Pingatore incessantly waxes nostalgic about Isaiah, as if to pound constantly into each boy's mind that Thomas was the one recruit that did what St. Joseph's wanted: he made it to the the NBA. In Pingatore's eyes, Thomas' fame and fortune lend testimony to St. Joseph's High School's everlasting committment to the underprivileged, untapped talent of Chicago's inner-city African-American population. Read the message from St. Joseph's administration to all basketball recruits...