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...Minutemen finally seemed to adjust to their wind disadvantage Gaining some speed of their own, they forced Crimson net minder Phil Coogan to come out of the goal to cut off shooting angles. On a follow up header UMass captain Kevin Flynn snuck the ball into the twines Gibbons netted the second UMass goal on Flynn's assist...
Spindly, pallid, shrewd, vulnerable and yet rather grand, he appears at his sweetly domineering best in My Favorite Year (1954, by the way). The role is that of an Errol Flynn-like movie star named Alan Swann whose swash has buckled to the point where the IRS is forcing him to choose between deportation and a back-tax-paying appearance on a TV comedy program. This show bears a more than coincidental resemblance to Sid Caesar's old Your Show of Shows. The perils it presents to a man whose joints have been vulcanized by excesses of meaningful booze...
...Flynn must confront Dellinger's evil henchman. Master Control Program (MCP), a Wizard of Oz-like being who has taken over the whole system, Several programs have tried to overthrow MCP, but they have all been captured and are being kept hostage...
Through some rather awkward plot manipulations, Flynn himself eventually ends up inside the system, reduced to the status of one of the many programs. From there, he and the good program, Tron, join hands in battle against the forces...
...pair whiz around in surrealistic motor cars and light beams, the storyline and even the character distinctions blur. What emerges are two not-so-subtle themes. First, the computer system is an allegory for repressive government. MCP is the dictator: Hitler, Franco, Amin, Big Brother all rolled into one. Flynn and Tron are the daring young revolutionaries who give their dejected compatriots hope. They fight not, as we were originally led to belive, so that Flynn can make big bucks, but "to make this system free again." Political moderates will be relieved to observe that Flynn does not succeed until...