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...While it wasn't all me, I did come up with the idea," said Nate S. Towery '03, who masterminded the plot. "I think up to 20 people--most were upperclassmen--got involved." Students walking by were intrigued by the plan, Towery said, and offered to help...
...summer in the '60's, where two boys, Van (Adrien Brody) and Ben (Ben Foster) are growing up in a very traditional Jewish family. Their grandmother believes that the most salient point in the story of Samson and Delilah is that Samson killed all the goyim. Their father, Nate, runs a gambling racket disguised as a strip-joint. At the same time, the two boys are being exposed to a world beyond that of the traditional Jewish one--older son Van is seduced by the WASPish world of white bread neighbourhoods, frat boys and beautiful blond girls, and falls...
Also representing the Crimson was sophomore Brandon Rhoades competing at 125-pounds, junior Matt Picarsic at 133-pounds, freshman Nick Picarsic at 141-pounds, senior Nate Ackerman at 149-pounds, senior Tom Kiler at 157-pounds, and freshman Reggie Lee who wrestled at 184-pounds...
Little Melvin will bring Nate--a decent guy despite his shabby work--to an uncomfortable end. Indeed, no one in this movie gets what he or she really wants or deserves. Even the romance between Ben's older brother Van (Adrien Brody) and his Wasp princess Dubbie (Carolyn Murphy) ends badly, when her ethereal perfection turns out to be only skin- (and coiffure-) deep...
...could hold. What's important is the casual, even digressive, movement of the piece. It plays like a memoir, not a conventional three-act movie. There's room here for Ben to shock his family by dressing as Hitler for Halloween, for a faux-naive stripper to electrify Nate's theater, for the strange power of a new-model Cadillac to cloud the mind of a '50s male. In short, Liberty Heights seems to encompass all the humor, sadness and weirdness of ordinary life in an utterly winning, morally acute...