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...Teaching is his first love, Donna M. Chiozzi, his administrative assistant, says adding, "He thinks of himself as a teacher and not an administrator...
Majoring in mass communication at Auburn, Gaines plans a career in broadcasting or the motion-picture industry. He also says that he would consider joining Mark Spitz and Donna DeVarona as a swimming-color commentator, adding that he eventually "wants to get behind the scenes producing, directing and editing...
...cliches especially distort Donna and Marlene's friendship and literally reduces them to brawling in a bar. The mixture of sadness, anger and confusion on Donna's face as she tries to decide what to say and for whom to say it expresses the real emotions of what a racist society can do to those trapped within. No matter what she says, there will still be no answer to the problem. The responsibility for the issue belongs to nobody in particular, the film says, but everyone is a participant...
...realize that sometimes there is nothing to ask, nothing to do and no place to run away. The cast's inexperience makes it even more natural and simple to be inarticulate about things for which there are no words and which glamorous, eloquent action would romanticize. Laura Harrington, as Donna, is a beautiful, unpolished young woman who makes the complex emotions she must portray believable. The sensual awkwardness of her and Michelle Green as Marlene render their strange position more poignant...
...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...