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...what the South Bronx is really like, through the experiences of the officers of the borough's 41st precinct. Art and social responsibility clash once again. Community activists in the South Bronx have declared the film racist while its makers defend its accuracy in depicting the area from a cop's point of view...
...BEGIN, Heywood Gould has created a screenplay of almost magnificent incompetence. He had a promising premise: two dedicated cops Murphy (Paul Newman) and Corelli (Ken Wahl), confront crime, corruption, despair and death in the South Bronx; their turf is so dangerous that the precinct office is nicknamed Fort Apache, as it is, indeed, "like a fort in hostile territory." In depicting this crumbling world, Gould conjures up an assortment of ludicrous plot contrivances and inate episodes. First, there's Charlotte, the grotesque hooker who opens the film by shooting two rookie officers dead in their parked patrol car. Fort Apache...
Corelli: Gee, with all the coverage on these cop killings, maybe you'll be able to pick up a cute reporter...
Murphy: That pimp thinks he can own me for a couple odd dollars, just like he owns every other cop in the neighborhood...
...Harvard Iron Man award by nabbing the U.S. Track and Field Federation pentathlon championship on January 25. Rittenberg was in second place after the first three events in the five-part contest but finished strong with firsts in the high jump and the 1000 meter run to cop the title... A day earlier three Harvard thinclads posted personal bests in the annual New York-Boston Invitation Meet. Freshman MARK HENRY won the high jump with a leap of 6 ft., 9 in. In the mile run only a close examination of the photo finish revealed that ADAM DIXON had been...