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When I first saw this film, the subject matter caught me off-guard. I'd never seen anything quite like it. I found it to be a compelling and engaging look into the lives of the girls on an Indian reservation, their black coach's back-story and motivations, the team's dynamics, and conflicts over the course of several seasons. As I was watching it I was thinking, "This ought to be a movie (fiction film)." Anyway, it's a great documentary that is as good or better than something like Hoop Dreams.

It would be nice to get this film back on air. I'm going to email my local PBS station about that.

I like LAX, I think it's a decent drama. It's got some humor and some dramatic situations. It's like Moonlighting--a romantic dramedy. I don't think it's any better or worse than similar shows.

I caught the episode this Monday where Blair Underwood is on a plane that is having electrical problems. It had a good deal of dramatic tension, even knowing that Underwood isn't going to be killed. So, we'll see if the show has any legs. NBC seems to be interested in these sort of blockbuster-type TV shows (Las Vegas).

This struck me as an above-average film because it is actually saying something worthwhile about society, however controversial. Danny is a young Jewish man who becomes a Nazi skinhead because he thinks Jews are weak, soft. Still, he holds onto his Judaism in secret. Ebert and Roeper said that Danny's argument was too convincing, but I don't agree. The challenge of the film is that Danny's arguments are full of true premises, but questionable conclusions. Underneath the questioning of Judaism, Danny is just like the person who you knew in school (it might have been you) who questioned the teacher to the nth degree. The only problem I had with the film is that I wondered how Danny lived day-to-day with all that nihilistism inside of him. It seems like he should have melted-down before the film even started. There's alot of aggressive self-loathing in the film, but the by-product is that it made me think about fascism, anti-semitism and the conflict inside every person between authority (God, doctrine, the majority) and the individual will.