Word: lombardi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mathewson; 44. Stupid question--too many to list, all with any correct answers got fullcredit; 45. Tommie Aaron and Cloyd Boyer; 46. Hector, Jose and Cirilio; 47. Jim and Graig; 48. Ron, Hank and Richie; 49. "Bubbles," "Pinky"; 50. Ken, Clete, Cloyd; 51. Jackie Robinson; 52. Bubbles Hargrave, Ernie Lombardi; 53. Ernie Banks, Joe Morgan; 54. Rogers Hornsby, Ted Williams; 55. Mateo Alou; 56. Zoilo Versalles; 57. Billy Goodman; 58. Tony Conigliaro; 59. Al Kaline; 60. .320; 61. Gil MacDougald; 62. Earl Averill; 63. rented Chevrolet; 64. Jack Hamilton; 65. Paul Blair; 66. hurt hand while dunking basketball; 67. fear...
...Vince Lombardi High School, the movie's back-drop, indiscriminately mixes atmospheres of mid-'70s boredom and early '60s California youth culture. For the first 15 minutes, Rock and Roll High School could be an updated surfing movie, just as the Ramones are in a sense punk's answer to the Beach Boys. The jokes are the oldest in the book--football players stuff freshmen in closets; a shy, bespectacled girl sidles up to a football captain; the wonks display gadgets at a "science fair...
Even with Soles, though, the first half of the movie is tiresome. As a new principal, with two obnoxiously unfunny hall monitors in tow, takes over Vince Lombardi and tries to restore order, you might consider buying popcorn or ducking into the theater next door to watch well-scrubbed adolescent girls in Peppermint Soda. Just make sure you're back in your seat by the time Joey Ramone snaps, "Hey! Ho! Let's go!" and launches into "Blitzkrieg Bop," because the ten-minute Ramones set is the movie's best part...
...females who starts very plain but steadily grows better-looking--slip into a local Ramones show despite the connivances of the fascistic principal. In the funniest scene of the movie, Soles invades the band's dressing room, forces on them some songs she's written, convinces them to visit Lombardi High the next day, and sheepishly leaves...
...band arrives at the school, amid the principal's "final solution"--a massive vinyl-burning. We watch horrified as Who's Next, Sticky Fingers and Rocket to Russia go up in foul-smelling smoke. But Soles breaks into the principal's office and, with the P.A.'s aid, turns Lombardi into "Rock and Roll High School." The kids go wild, the Ramones break into "Do You Wanna Dance," and in a scene of mayhem they rip the school apart--in the end actually blowing...