Jay Bias Death

Wednesday, November 4, 2009 at 10:38 am under U.S. News Jay Bias Death

Jay Bias Death, In a way, these 30 “by 30″ movies are almost idiot-proof. The stories that have been elected so far has been so intrinsically interesting that almost no matter how filmmakers have chosen to tell. I love Mike Tollin assume the USFL, but then many of you said you were just happy to see all that footage.
Jay Bias Death
Kirk Fraser “without prejudice” feels like another example of that phenomenon. Fraser comes to things at least two hours of film into a bag of 50 minutes, the end result is a film that jumps between the sub too many stories, and that has to be guided by talking heads too …

… And yet, I care, because it is obvious how much Fraser, and all persons who have the opportunity to speak in the film, worried about Len Bias. He was so important to so many people, and if you are old enough (and I confess that I am a couple of years too young to fit in this group), I understand that his death was every bit the couple, even disturbing the whole world described in the film.

The problem is that there are so many potential stories that can tell about Len Bias – Cocaine use among athletes (college or professional) of the time, the impact on your family and friends, how his death changed the fate of the Celtics (Bill Simmons has written about many times), the ripple effect may have had in the war against drugs – and not just pick one and say that all the way, Fraser tries to give a little time at all. The segment of the night of the death of Bias, and its immediate consequences, is both the longest and the best part of “without prejudice”, but many other parts of the film – the stuff of mandatory minimum sentences, particularly – they feel ill-fed.

However, many of the sound bytes and images of the film have stayed with me in the week since I saw it: the composure of Mrs. Bias, Tribble’s regret ( “Why should we be so stupid as to do drugs? “), the eloquence of Michael Wilbon (which is easy to forget if you just see him on” PTI “every day, as I do) and, above all television interview about the murder of Jay Bias , where the father talks about “the praise that I would give to Len Bias’, then stops himself when he realizes what he just said (and what a horrible double burden has been visited by his family) and is back tears.