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IT WAS THE BEST OF TIMES AND THE WORST OF TIMES THE NEW YORK KNICKS PARADE by Larry Baumhor      I hopped on the New Jersey Transit train in Trenton at 2:30 am, starry-eyed, filled with dreams, fantasies, and wild expectations. New York City here I come! Jumped a cab at Penn Station, informed the driver to take me to the Canyon of Heroes. It’s time to party, I yelled!      Rick Brunson and I attended Temple University together.  He’s the assistant coach of the Knicks and father of the King of New York, Jalen. I was at McGonigle Hall when the Hall of Fame coach John Chaney grabbed Brunson by the neck while walking off the court during a game because of a botched play. I bled cherry and white! Like the putz that I am, the big shot from Temple had it in his screwy head that I was going to talk to Rick Brunson about that play at Temple, mind you, he was carrying the championship trophy during the parade.      Two million rabid fans mixed wit...
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 MOVIE REVIEWS by Larry Baumhor HEART OF DARKNESS AND APOCALYPSE NOW    Heart of Darkness is a documentary about the film Apocalypse Now. It is based on film footage and interviews by Francis Ford Coppola’s wife, Eleanor Coppola. Both the film and its subsequent documentary are about feeling emotion, psychologically self-inflicted torture, and pain. This was no method acting. Instead, the actors had out-of-body experiences which transformed them into the movie's characters.    Coppola had to deal with the natives working as extras on the set, bombs going off, and military helicopters attacking. It was crazy, out of control, with wild parties, cocaine binges, and a free-for-all. No one knew what reality was.    Eleanor Coppola’s unique perspective enables the viewer to live in the jungle of the Philippines and takes us through the extraordinary psyche of some of the characters, including her husband Francis. He invested 30 million of his own money and w...
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