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Dates: during 1990-1999
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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...
Sylvia's doctor father sternly forbids contact between them; it endangers his hard-won position. Ben's father Nate (Joe Mantegna) is distractedly against it too, though most of his attention is focused on his two troubled businesses--a failing burlesque house and a numbers racket threatened by an obstreperous black man named Little Melvin (Orlando Jones), who portends the violent, irrational '60s, just a historical nanosecond away...
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...
Killar, along with co-captain Ed Mosley, senior Tom Kiler, and freshman Max Odom all led the Crimson charge by capturing first place in their respective divisions. Senior Nate Ackerman and junior Brad Soltis grappled to third place positions, and sophomore Dawid Rechul's efforts earned him fourth...