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Erving has also begun making friends with his new teammates, hanging out with them in coffee shops when the club is on the road. He attributes the change to a family reunion last summer in New York City. There, with more than 300 members of the Erving clan, Dr. J explored his roots and the responsibility of his unique place within the family circle. Says Erving: "I got a lot of strength and determination and peace from them...
Kevin, who had not known that his mother was in Iran, was given only 20 minutes advance notice of the reunion. "There was a lot of kissing and hugging, but there were no tears," Mrs. Timm recalled later. The two sat on a couch, and "we never quit holding hands, like we had a permanent attachment to one another." An Iranian television crew filmed the meeting, while a few of the militant captors watched in silence. They let the reunion last for 45 minutes...
...second wife manages to make an impact playing an essentially shy, sweet woman. Indeed that is pretty much the way of this film. It tugs gently at one's sleeve. There is not a more satisfactory moment to be seen now on any screen than Hacklin's reunion with his children. One does not cheer, but one leaves the theater feeling just fine...
...SETTING OF Blue Devils--a series of "reunion" jazz parties Ricker organized at the Musician's Mutual Foundation, Kansas City's old Black union hall--recalls No Maps On My Taps, which revolved around a similar reunion of old jazz dancers, but Blue Devils has little of the sadness and sentimentality that are at the heart of Taps. As Ricker is quick to point out, the golden years of Kansas City were good, happy times for jazz musicians, and the surviving Kansas City jazzmen have learned how to deal with the disappointments of the intervening years; when they get together...
Tomibe survived the war and was cleared of war-crimes charges on the basis of prisoner testimony. Three years ago, he attended a reunion in San Francisco with Crouter and other ex-prisoners, thanking the Americans and their children for teaching him about free will and democracy. The Americans, for their part, were grateful that Tomibe had not tried brainwashing or psychological games...