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...test of depth. Traditionally when Harvard has played teams used to slightly tougher competition than Harvard's Ivy League, the game has not always been decided by who has better players, but by who has more good players. The teams accustomed to stiffer competition have generally been able to platoon talented and fresh back-ups into spots whenever starters have been tired or hurt, while Harvard has been forced to wear out its stars...
...dull TV season; now for a little mind-bending mayhem. For four nights next week, ABC will plunge viewers into the bright, bizarre world of Wild Palms. The six-hour mini-series is the brainchild of two intriguing newcomers to network TV: Oliver Stone, the director of JFK and Platoon, and Bruce Wagner, writer of a hallucinated comic strip in Details magazine on which the mini-series is based. A few minutes into this futuristic fantasy, and viewers numbed by TV's docudrama deluge will realize they've stumbled onto something special. A few more minutes...
Eastwood plans his productions like military campaigns and compares his role to that of an officer in combat. "Making a film takes on a life of its own," he says. "You guide that life along like a platoon leader, getting everybody kind of enthused to charge the hill." To a relative newcomer like actress Frances Fisher, who plays the prostitute Strawberry Alice in Unforgiven and is Eastwood's current companion, it all seems seamless. "He is the most confident director I have ever seen. He kind of glides through it all." Distractions are kept to a minimum and posturing discouraged...
...equip his flock psychologically for the battles to come, Koresh reportedly played and replayed videos of his favorite movies about the Vietnam War: Platoon, Full Metal Jacket and Hamburger Hill. His followers prepared themselves physically with weight training, military-style drills and obstacle-course runs. To acquaint them with the experience of famine, their vegetarian diet was strictly rationed. Daily life was a harsh mix of work and Bible study. Men labored at construction around the compound, while modestly dressed women did household chores and schooled the children, who were rarely taken off the grounds. Television was forbidden, and children...
Would I have cared if one of the members of my platoon was openly gay? Looking back now, I don't think it would have mattered to me that my bunkmate was gay, a Yalie or anything else. There was no time to worry about that kind of thing. All that mattered to me was that a fellow platoon member would help me when I needed it, and we all needed help at some point...