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...Rascoff makes an excellent point about the cyclical nature of inner-city poverty and the way it is documented in the documentary "Hoop Dreams" ("Losing Life's Game," Opinion, Nov. 18, 1994). Unfortunately, I must take exception to his implications that the three film-makers, Steve James, Frederick Marx and Peter Gilbert, exploited the two players, Arthur Agee and William Gates...
Film-makers, reporters, journalists and others whose job it is to portray the truth and provide factual information are always confronted with moral dilemmas about to what extent they should allow themselves to get personally involved. Rascoff basically blasts James, Marx and Gilbert for not feeling any morals in the situation of the Agee family blackout...
...president's decision does boast the backing of many politicians and economists. They contest that economic stability necessarily precedes political stability. While economic problems can provide the impetus for political struggle, as Karl Marx first suggested, President Clinton has forgotten that Marx doesn't apply everywhere...
...wonders and we wonder. The scene is from Steve James, Frederick Marx, and Peter Gilbert's brilliant documentary "Hoop Dreams," a lyrical meditation on basketball, ambition and the depravity of inner-city life. Gates is one of the film's truth-tellers. He is aware--if only at moments--of the terrible burden of potential and its cruel habit of leaving behind a trail of unfulfilled dreams and unrealized promise...
...Hoop Dreams" tells the charged and turbulent stories of two inner-city Chicago teenagers, William Gates and Arthur Agee. Both aspire to careers in professional basketball, and both spend their adolescent years on their respective neighborhood courts. Film makers Steve James, Frederick Marx and Peter Gilbert follow the pair for five full years, beginning with freshman year of high school and ending with freshman year of college, through family struggles, vibrant victories, and finally to the harsh realities that undercut the "dreams" of the film's title. William and Arthur's dreams are born, cultivated, encouraged, exploited and destroyed...