Word: roles
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...center of the film is Gene Hackman, who's role here is vaguely reminiscent of his existential Popeye Doyle of The French Connection. Now, however, he seems strained as he portrays a tough basketball coach who at one time got kicked out of the sport for pasting one of his players but is now an improved man who comes to a wholesome all-American town and tries to teach them boys a thing or two about the game...
rediscover the largely untold role of Blacks...
Although I found the entire visit to the children ludicrous from the start, it was this last comment which made me realize the pathetic role we force on the disadvantaged in our society. We force them to sell their self-esteem to satisfy our desire for pathos. America runs on pathos. Christmas, elections--these children are required to unwittingly expose themselves to the world in order to get the help they deserve. Some of the parents spoke at the press conference, but at least then the press was forbidden to take their pictures. The children are not so lucky...
While it remains highly unlikely that the Ivy schools would move to secede from the national body of college sport, such suggestions have been made in the past. And the recent passage of an NCAA rule limiting the role of alumni boosters in the recruiting process both illustrates and exacerbates the problem of Ivy-NCAA relations...
Westlake is the author of a number of intricate, blackly humorous mysteries which reflect the theme of violent role-changing that runs through this movie. The author has an obvious fascination with such switching--"Westlake" is actually a pseudonym used by a well-hidden British journalist--and it is this identity confusion which is the movie's strength...