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	About Hoop Dreams
		Hoop Dreams aims to provide inner-city youth from Washington DC’s most disenfranchised neighborhoods with opportunities to develop skills, access resources and forge connections that will support their healthy development, academic achievement and life success.
		Hoop Dreams offers a unique opportunity for Washington professionals from the corporate, government, and non-profit sectors to come together with local, inner-city high school students, to prepare these young people for college and career success.
		The goal of the Hoop Dreams Scholarship Fund Internship Program is to motivate students to explore career possibilities, to provide job experience, and place each intern in a job that matches his or her academic and/or career goals.
	www.hoopdreams.org /about.htm (1023 words)

	Hoop Dreams (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Usually the synopsis is a summary of the plot – however the synopsis for 'Hoop Dreams' is a little different.
		'Hoop Dreams' is a true-life story that spans five years in the life of two inner-city high school boys who dream of playing in the NBA.
		Although 'Hoop Dreams' is not a typical ‘goodie ‘v’ baddie’ film, we can still find the heroes and villains within the documentary.
	www.filmeducation.org /secondary/HoopDreams.html (814 words)

	real life
		Hoop Dreams is less about hoop than about dreams -- dreams nurtured, dreams annihilated.
		Hoop Dreams makes the unsurprising point that the boys, who are both goof-offs in school, have been shaped into basketball machines -- incomplete people, who worship the game to the exclusion of almost everything else.
		The metal hoops, so seductive and high, await the next generation of boys, ready to exalt or humble them.
	www.angelfire.com /movies/oc/hoop.html (1200 words)

	Hoop Dreams - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Hoop Dreams, motion-picture documentary about six years in the life of two talented school-age basketball players.
		In 1992 professional players were first allowed to compete in the Olympics, and USA Basketball (the governing body of Olympic basketball in the...
		In a season in which the pros and cons of the three-point goal were constantly debated, Indiana won the 1987 National Collegiate Athletic Association championship.
	encarta.msn.com /Hoop_Dreams.html (135 words)

	PlanetPapers - Hoop Dreams and Rasin in the Sun - Comparison Contrast Paper
		Although it’s said that if you believe in a dream long enough it will come true, but in Hoop Dreams and A Raisin in the Sun you are shown the harsh realities of the falseness of that statement.
		In Hoop Dreams, both William and Arthur are given much support to fulfill their dreams of getting to the NBA, but Walter in A Raisin in the Sun is only given grief on getting his liquor store.
		All three of them had the same attitude towards the dreams, “No matter what this dream is going to come true.” The Worst part of it is that all of them let the dreams take over their lives.
	www.planetpapers.com /Assets/2680.php (1028 words)

	"Hoop Dreams" by Murray Sperber
		The strength and power of HOOP DREAMS is not its sports story — that becomes too predictable and genre driven — but its representation of the players' families, particularly their mothers, Emma Gates and Sheila Agee.
		The subtext is clear: for kids like William, the dream of sports stardom is so powerful and so tied to their self-definition that when the dream is in mortal danger — the doctors warn William that he might not regain full use of his knee — the individual begins to disintegrate along with the dream.
		Thus, for all of its brilliant documentary sequences, HOOP DREAMS remains a Hollywood genre film about sports, focusing on the biographies of the stars, trying to catch us up in their adventures and triumphs, implying that their lives are typical stories, and never analyzing the political context in which these individuals exist.
	www.ejumpcut.org /archive/onlinessays/JC40folder/HoopDreamsSperber.html (3353 words)

	Unofficial Hoop Dreams
		Hoop Dreams came out on video and laser disc on April 25th and has been on the list of top ten rental videos.
		Fineline has a Hoop Dreams page with production notes, a transcript of an on-line session with Peter Gilbert and other great information (they have also added a new banner to their main page with images from Hoop Dreams).
		When Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel reviewed Hoop Dreams on their show even before it was shown at Sundance in January of 1994, it became the film to watch at the festival.
	www.well.com /user/srhodes/hoopdreams.html (807 words)

	'Hoop Dreams'
		Hoop Dreams” is the most powerful movie about sports ever made.
		It’s impossible to watch “Hoop Dreams” and not feel that American athletics exploits the fantasies of big-time wealth and celebrity that are envisioned by thousands of boys like Arthur and William.
		By the time he is out of high school, William is a father and, unless by some miracle he becomes one of the select few who actually make a living from professional athletics, far worse off for his delusions of grandeur than he might have been without them.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/hoopdreamsnrhinson_a01b70.htm (698 words)

	Hoop Dreams - A Review
		One of the fascinating aspects of Hoop Dreams is the way it spontaneously unfolds, the viewer never quite sure what will happen next.
		Hoop Dreams lasts for three hours but it is doubtful that the viewer will notice the length.
		Hoop Dreams is a complex film that deeply explores the hopes and pitfalls of inner-city life, leaving the viewer with a number of troubling questions about the future of thousands of young men like Arthur and William.
	www.documentaryfilms.net /Reviews/HoopDreams (660 words)

	"Hoop Dreams" by Lee Jones
		The cinematography in HOOP DREAMS is devoid of much color and brilliance, consistent with the lives of the Agee and Gates families.
		HOOP DREAMS follows the fortunes of Arthur Agee and William Gates, who both live in poor fl neighborhoods in Chicago.
		At one point in HOOP DREAMS, William, his girlfriend and their daughter are sitting at a table discussing why William had to play basketball rather than be with the mother when their daughter was born.
	www.ejumpcut.org /archive/onlinessays/JC40folder/HoopDreamsJones.html (5838 words)

	Fine Line Features \| Hoop Dreams \| Synopsis and Production Notes
		Plucked from the streets and given the opportunity to attend a "white" prep school and play for a legendary high school coach, William Gates and Arthur Agee both soon discover that their dreams of NBA glory become obscured amid the intense pressures of academics, family life, economics and athletic competitiveness.
		Even with so much being written about the exploitation of athletes in college basketball, "HOOP DREAMS" is the first major film to present the complex issue of kids, sports and education at the high school level, where abuse of power and rigorous adherence to the letter of the law have even more powerful ramifications.
		Indeed, we discover that the dreams of basketball glory at the center of the film are dreams of entire families, not just two boys.
	www.finelinefeatures.com /hoop/hdsynops.htm (878 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Hoop Dreams at Epinions.com
		"Hoop Dreams" is a moving documentary about two poor fl teenagers and their struggles to succeed despite how troublesome and oppressive their lives may be.
		The title of the film is "Hoop Dreams" not "Hoop Reality," because they don't always win, but it is the boys' dreams that control their lives.
		"Hoop Dreams" is probably one of the most inspirational films I've ever seen.
	www.epinions.com /mvie-review-3FDF-20F83110-39ED209C-prod4 (739 words)

	Home Theater & Sound -- Hoop Dreams - ****1/2
		Hoop Dreams considers the place of sports in society, and it reveals truths about a number of subjects relevant in modern-day America, including the roles of work, education, economic status, and family in creating the people that each of us becomes.
		Hoop Dreams was released to theaters in 1994, and it was very well received because of Gene Siskel's and Roger Ebert's championing of it on their weekly TV show.
		The Siskel and Ebert segments are especially interesting because of controversy surrounding Hoop Dreams and the Academy Awards, but the included booklet, which has essays on the film and a Washington Post article that updates us on Arthur's and William's lives now, surpasses the DVD extras.
	www.hometheatersound.com /dvd/hoop_dreams.htm (753 words)

	Hoop Dreams (1994) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		"Hoop Dreams" is a film about real life, because that is what it's exactly about, real life.
		This isn't some hokey, Hollywood drama about living out a dream, but is about two aspiring young athletes rising out of the dredges of the Chicago ghetto life and into the flash and glitter of the NBA.
		Directed by Steve James and produced by Frederick Marx and Peter Gilbert, "Hoop Dreams" originally began as a 30-minute documentary about rising ballplayers, but the filmmakers quickly saw that 30 minutes was just too narrow a scope for their story.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0110057 (745 words)

	The Harsh Reality of `Hoop Dreams'
		But ``Hoop Dreams'' is a documentary that breathes new life into the subject by showing the everyday reality of that dream.
		``Hoop Dreams,'' now available on home video, is a massive work that traces five years in the lives of two young men, William Gates and Arthur Agee, possible NBA prospects, who start off as 14-year-olds playing basketball in a school yard.
		In ``Hoop Dreams'' the mechanism of the athlete emerges as something as finely tuned and fragile as that of the artist.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/1995/04/28/DD20557.DTL (400 words)

	SoundStage! Network Home Theater & Sound -- Collector's Corner
		Hoop Dreams ended up on more than 100 Top Ten lists for 1994, including being picked by both Siskel and Ebert as the Best Film of the Year.
		Their hoop dreams include fabulous wealth, instant acclaim, and the kind of name recognition received by Isaiah Thomas, a St. Joseph’s alumnus.
		Hoop Dreams went on to become one of the most successful films of the 1990s -- at least with viewers and critics.
	www.hometheatersound.com /features/collectorscorner/cc_20050601.htm (1251 words)

	Hoop Dreams Scholarship Fund
		Pictured here are some of the Hoop Dreams students, their mentors and members of the Hoop Dreams staff at HD Woodson graduation the week of June 12, 2006.
		It was an unforgettable night for Hoop Dreams honoring the nearly 800 DC students we have helped send to college since 1996 and a wonderful way to celebrate the work that Hoop Dreams does on a local level addressing national issues surrounding education, college access and empowering youth.
		Hoop Dreams honorees who accepted awards last night and made remarks were Ann Friedman, Kathy Etemad Hollinger representing Comcast of the District and Carolynn Mambu from the Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation.
	www.hoopdreams.org (1047 words)

	Pinoy Hoop Dreams
		Indeed, there are battered hoops hung up all over the country, from the intensely claustrophobic lanes of Manila's Chinatown to the sides of nipa huts on sugar plantations in the boondocks.
		Constrained by the cold weather outside and the small size of the gym, his objective was to develop a recreational game to supplement the calisthenics and drills that the students traditionally engaged in.
		One day my solo hoop activities were interrupted by the appearance of a soul brother who started shooting at the other end of the court.
	www.apmforum.com /columns/orientseas40.htm (2140 words)

	Hoop Dreams e-newsletter
		The Hoop Dreams Internship Program is an after school job placement program for college bound students in their senior year of high school and Hoop Dreams college students returning in the summer.
		As a non-profit organization, Hoop Dreams can be named as a full or partial beneficiary in a will or life insurance policy.
		The Hoop Dreams Scholarship Fund is proud to participate in the 2006-2007 Booz Allen Hamilton - Redskins Yards for Youth program.
	tournament.hoopdreams.org /News_Letters/nov06/nov06.htm (1135 words)

	Amazon.ca: Hoop Dreams: DVD: Steve James,William "Pop" Gates,Kevin O'Neill,Earl Smith,Isiah Thomas,Dick Vitale,Bobby ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		To think about the ups and downs, the raw enthusiasm of the young boys when they first started chasing their hoop dreams, the rough realities that they both faced without consistent fatherhood, without steady incomes, without one advantage in their lives, still brings tears to my eyes.
		This was a brilliant movie that moved public discourse about the importance of steady parenting, the need for educational and employment opportunities in all corners of America, the costs associated with our obsession for celebrity athletes, and the limitations of athletics as a vehicle for moving young men from poverty to wealth.
		'Hoop Dreams' is not the most exciting documentary, but it is one of the most truthful in showing the struggle for become rich and famous.
	www.amazon.ca /Hoop-Dreams-William-Pop-Gates/dp/B0007WFYBG (1768 words)

	NPR : Hoop Dreams
		Watch a clip of William Gates and Arthur Agee talking about their NBA aspirations, from Hoop Dreams.
		Watch a Hoop Dreams clip of basketball scout Earl Smith taking Arthur Agee on a recruiting trip to St. Joseph's High School -- alma mater of Agee's hero, Isiah Thomas.
		And Agee says that basketball is still his "first dream" -- though now he dreams not of the NBA but of playing overseas.
	www.npr.org /programs/atc/features/2002/apr/hoops/index.html (564 words)

	Feature: Hoop Dreams \| Robb Report
		Jerry Stark finds himself in a vexing predicament: His ball is jawsed—stuck between the jaws of the hoop, one of the arches commonly referred to as wickets but known among the croquet cognoscenti as hoops.
		Croquet’s equivalent of sinking a 6-foot putt is rolling a ball through a hoop that allows no more than one-sixteenth of an inch of clearance, a measurement comparable to the thickness of a dime.
		When a struck ball touches the uprights of a hoop, it is a fault, an error that ends the turn.
	www.robbreport.com /Articles/Sport/Feature-Hoop-Dreams.asp (420 words)

	Hoop Dreams - Movie Rental Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Rather than providing viewers with a candy-coated confection of "local boy makes good," HOOP DREAMS illustrates how near impossible it is for such a story to even take place--and frequently as a result of things completely out of the boys' control.
		The result is a searing portrait of inner city life in America, and the extraordinary, downright unfair expectations placed on the shoulders of many young fl athletes.
		HOOP DREAMS painstakingly tempers the romanticism characteristic high school athletes by paying special attention to the many roadblocks that stand in the way of Gates' and Agee's dreams.
	www.commonsensemedia.org /movie-reviews/Hoop-Dreams.html (668 words)

	Hoop Dreams
		This completely absorbing three-hour documentary follows the lives of two inner-city African American teenage basketball prodigies as they move through high school with long-shot dreams of the NBA, superstardom, and an escape from the ghetto.
		Each takes a separate path along the way, stumbling over several obstacles (William suffers injuries, Arthur fails to meet his coach's high expectations); but James takes particular care to stress the importance and strong commitment of each character's family along the way, giving the film a essential center.
		The parents and siblings emerge with as much depth and complexity as the two main "characters," and turn Hoop Dreams into an unforgettable film experience.
	www.reelmoviecritic.com /Movies20031Q/id1971.htm (305 words)

	'Hoop Dreams'
		Over the ensuing five years, “Hoop Dreams,” an extraordinarily affecting documentary, traces the sobering ramifications of that boyhood wish.
		William’s heavyset brother Curtis, a failed basketball contender, declares of his sibling: “All my dreams are in him now.
		“ Hoop Dreams,” whose three hours glide by like the best overtime game you ever saw, shows how two young spirits deal with that specter and how—in ways they hadn’t anticipated— they come through for themselves.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/hoopdreamsnrhowe_a01b6f.htm (584 words)

	Hoop dreams - Blogon - theage.com.au
		Hooping.org is a weblog kept by a group of hoop-mad San Franciscans keen to share the joy of "hooping" with the rest of the world.
		They manage to make twirling a plastic hoop around your hips look pretty cool, too, with tales of their street performances and images of hoop displays in underground clubs.
		Customised hoops are de rigueur, with a whole sub-category of posts devoted to making hoops out of common hardware store supplies.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2003/09/17/1063625080806.html?oneclick=true (301 words)

	Hoop Dreams Scholarships
		Please note that the scholarships listed below are only for students that have been previously awarded a Hoop Dreams Scholarship or students currently in our college prep mentoring program.
		This scholarship is for students who have previously been awarded a Hoop Dreams scholarship.
		If you have taken a few years off from school or have not applied consistently for funding, you may still apply as long as at one point you were awarded a Hoop Dreams Scholarship.
	www.hoopdreams.org /scholarships.htm (157 words)

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