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...read the tag on the poster, you will already know what this movie is about: cheese. The artificial, creamy, Velveeta kind. "Rudy" is based on the true story of Rudy Ruettiger, a young Catholic boy who pursues his life long dream of playing football for the Notre Dame Irish. Only three things stand in his way: He doesn't have the high school grades to get into Notre Dame, he doesn't have any money to pay for the tuition and he is only five-foot seven inches tall, hardly the size necessary to join the nearly professional Notre Dame...
...film is based on the novel and play La Dame aux Camelias by Alexandre Dumas Fils. As this story has been popular for more than a century, legendary actresses such as Sarah Bernhardt and Eleonora Duse have played this fascinating courtesan. Several incidents in Garbo's own life led her to take the role: her own sister Alva died of tuberculosis and she suffered from similar physical ailments. And Marguerite's emotional self-containment curiously parallels the offscreen distance Garbo carefully maintained from both of her eager costars, Taylor and Barrymore...
...front steps of the Dan Quayle museum in Huntington, Indiana, John Herrenden, a straw-haired 10-year-old in a Notre Dame baseball cap, is practicing the free-market entrepreneurialism once preached by the 44th Vice President of the United States: he's selling cups of Kool-Aid at 10 cents a pop. The flavor? "I think it's red," he says. "R-e-d," he adds, slowly and seriously...
...Arbor, it's beyond belief. The football stadium holds over 90,000. And they still sell standing-room-only for the Ohio State or Notre Dame game...
Mohammed says Dartmouth provided round-trip airfare to visit the campus. Notre Dame as well as some state colleges, offered to pick up the tab for a visit, as well as a full scholarship...