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...Black resident of the neighborhood when Marlene's brother is accused. Billy's fear of going to jail causes him to scream at Donna "who's gonna believe it? He's Black--I'm white. I got a record." It has all happened too many times before. Even the cop investigating the accident sees the police as actors with prescribed roles, "If we arrest the Black kid, we're racists. If we arrest the white kid, we're starting a race riot. If we arrest nobody, we're a bunch of jerks...
...scenery is awkward too: the uglier neighborhoods in Cambridge. D'arcy Marsh's camerawork shows an every-day, harsh, concrete environment inside the cramped rooms or outside in the projects. Yet Donna looks almost lyrical as she sits dejectedly outside a beer factory after fighting with a cop and slumping into the weeds, illustrating the beauty that can be found on Cambridge's starker side...
Dixon, the Crimson's only individual participant to cop a first, also anchored the record-setting distance medley team behind Peter Johnson, David Stephens and co-captain John Murphy. Their time of 9:55.96 is a new Heptagonal record...
IMAGINE TELEVISION'S Mr. Rogers playing Rocky Balboa and you should get an idea of what Paul Newman is like as J.J. Murphy. Miscasting like this should be savored in all its hilarity. When Newman looks into the camera and says "I've been a cop for seventeen years and I've got every minute of this job written on my face" or adds "I could walk into Grand Central Station and everybody would know I'm a cop," he's almost too funny to bear. Yes, Newman has taken a lot of critical abuse in his twenty-five years...
Then again, Murphy is a poorly concieved, poorly written character. He's the Last Honest Cop, supposedly appalled by the corruption in the precinct and the squalor in the streets, an ancient cliche. Murphy might have been utilized as the liberal mouthpiece for the film-makers' ideas on urban blight--but Petrie and Gould blow it again. Murphy tells his Puerto Rican girlfriend that he stays in the Bronx because he wants to help the victimized citizenry, he says he understands them: "You see Puerto Ricans are really no different from us Irish. We both like to dance and drink...