-Caveat Lector-
On 24 Apr 99, , Alamaine wrote:
> Take ''Basketball Diaries,'' the 1995 movie based on Jim Carroll's
> autobiographical book about his tumble from New York City high-school
> basketball star to heroin addict. In the film there is a dream sequence in
> which Leonardo DiCaprio, wearing an ankle-length black-leather coat and
> brandishing a 3-foot-long (1-meter) rifle, walks into his high-school
> classroom and starts blowing away students. One by one. In slow motion. To
> a score of rock music.
>
> Kills his teacher, too.
>
> His friends in the class are saluting each other with celebratory high
> fives and laughing.
>
> So was Bryan Goluboss, the screenwriter, drafting from reality to make his
> screenplay authentic? Or was his creation copied by real students in
> Littleton, Colorado, who wore real trench coats and blew away their real
> peers?
>
> ''Basketball Diaries'' already was cited as a factor in the shooting two
> years ago of three students in West Paducah, Kentucky. Authorities said
> the 14-year-old shooter in that incident may have planned his attack after
> watching the movie.
>
> In the wake of this latest tragedy, Mr. Brode urges taking a wide look.
>
> ''The way I see it,'' he said, ''is there is not more darkness or more
> lightness than before. It's that everything is more extreme today. The
> middl e is gone. The darkness is darker than before.''
Gee, "The Basketball Diaries" is a pretty old book....been around for quite a long
time.
Seems to me it was written quite a few years ago. But then, I guess highschool
students couldn't read.
>
sno0wl
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