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That's easy for him to do, for Dreverhaven is an all-powerful figure. He is a bailiff enriching himself by collecting everyone's bad debts, and his tentacles reach everywhere. He is never too busy, though, to keep a baleful eye on his son, eventually ensnaring the lad in debt and squeezing him mercilessly for the money...
...beginning, Francie is just a bright, apple-stealing, school-skipping lad, someone you can easily see as "going through a phase." But as he loses mother, father and finally his best friend (Alan Boyle), those pop cultural pictures--hard to say whether the carelessly violent or irrelevantly instructional are more damaging--fill up the empty spaces in his mind. Fill them to a kind of ghastly overflowing, which the film recounts with perverse but curiously appropriate good cheer...
...effect is stunning: a seven-year-old in lipstick and a borrowed pink dress. Anyway, the sight stuns the parents of the boy who makes his entrance so gaily bedecked. He is Ludovic (Georges du Fresne), a sweet child convinced he's a girl. No point in lecturing the lad; Ludo blithely pursues his obsession. Of a school chum, he says, "We're going to marry when...
While the players never gave us an ounce of sass or trouble, the season was not without incident. We had one zealous father who thought we weren't doing right by his son, and indeed we may have given the lad short shrift in response to being pressured. After a game in which I screwed up a substitution, which resulted in this player not getting an at-bat, the father somewhat publicly berated me and my coaching. But he was just a father who cared a lot about his son, and his son was a very sweet...
...guess what? The kid can write. Like Jackson Pollock with a paint tube, Stone squeezes the pus and purple out of his gaudy youth. The book is like a huge scenario from some gifted, twisted lad--Oliver Stone, age 20--that the older Stone chopped down and published. But the two are eerie twins. They share the need to go too far, to push the vocabulary of words and pictures. The young Stone even envisions himself in the '90s, a zillionaire aswirl in controversy. "Of course many rumors abounded about me, mostly sinister...