Can gold
tarnish? Well, I don’t know. But I am
going to add this flick – White Men Can’t
Jump – to my list of Golden Oldies, even though I didn’t enjoy it nearly so
much the second time through.
Did you know
that there is a sub-culture of guys who play 2 on 2 basketball outdoors, for
money? Probably not, unless you live in
a large city with a considerable black population. Anyway, this movie involves such a
scene. It stars Wesley Snipes as an
excellent practitioner of the art, Woody Harrelson as the original Rube from Rhubarb,
North Dakota – with a deadly jump shot, and Rosie Perez as a little bouncing
ball of sexual energy. As you all know,
Snipes recently served several years in the can for income tax evasion, while
Harrelson went on to greater glory in Cheers
and a few pretty-good movies. Rosie’s
life so far involves acting and such-like endeavors; I wish I had seen more of
her.
So, anyway,
you can skip this film and not feel culturally deprived. If you like it, it will be for the basketball
and its accompanying trash-talk. And, of
course, Rosie on roller skates. C+
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