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- <text id=92TT0758>
- <title>
- Apr. 06, 1992: View Points:Cinema
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- Apr. 06, 1992 The Real Power of Vitamins
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- VIEW POINTS, Page 69
- CINEMA
- Intruder in the Hoops
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- <p> Hard concrete courts, baking under the heat of the L.A. sun,
- and young men from the ghetto shaking out their frustrations by
- playing a kind of attack basketball--all high-bouncing dazzle,
- nasty elbows and insults that come at you in rap rhythm. Billy
- Hoyle (Woody Harrelson) intrudes into this essentially black
- world with intent to hustle (gambling on these pickup games is
- heavy). Maybe White Men Can't Jump, but in all other respects
- he's a fully qualified player--except possibly in the brains
- department. But smart Sidney Deane (Wesley Snipes) has enough
- wit for both men, and after initial edginess they form a winning
- (and profitable) two-on-two team in a movie that is not as
- winning as it should be. Writer-director Ron Shelton covers the
- action excitingly, but his plot is strictly a two-handed set
- shot. He did much better with Bull Durham, his leisurely,
- literate movie about minor-league baseball. It makes you think
- he's probably a nice white guy who just can't jump to an
- inner-city beat.
- </p>
- <p>By Ricard Schickel.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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