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A LOOK AT THE WEEK AHEAD April 21- April 28, 2000
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WOULD THE FLYERS WANT LINDROS AND NEILSON TO RETURN?-- With the Eric Lindros-less, Craig Ramsay-coached Flyers playing some of the best post-season hockey the city has seen in years, people are starting to wonder if the team might be better off without its injured star and ailing coach.
"There's a concern about team chemistry, but you always want to have your best players on the ice," says Temple sports psychologist Michael Sachs. "The coaching situation is a little more delicate though. While you never want someone to lose their job because of illness, Ramsay has made some changes in the Flyers' style of play that really seem to be working."
Sachs believes that while most players are extremely loyal to coach Roger Neilson, who's been out for several weeks while undergoing chemotherapy treatment, they'd probably prefer to stay with Ramsay as coach throughout the playoffs. And whatever the players think, Sachs says there's little doubt the Flyers' management would prefer things stay the same. "This is professional sports and they have to do whatever is best for the team."
Reach Dr. Sachs through the Office of News and Media Relations, 215-204-7476.
VIETNAM ON FILM: PERSONAL STORIES -- How did America's involvement in the Vietnam War affect popular culture, especially filmmaking, over the past 25 years? Temple English/film studies professor Tim Corrigan says you won't see many future war films in the vein of John Wayne's flag-waving The Green Berets, set in Vietnam.
"It's no longer possible to tell war tales on film in the old way," says Corrigan, author of A Cinema Without Walls: Movies and Culture After Vietnam, noting that films that focus on heroes mowing down enemies "are a little too difficult to sell anymore." Instead, from Oliver Stone's Platoon to Michael Cimino's The Deer Hunter to Hal Ashby's Coming Home, Hollywood has produced a number of films that "try to understand the trauma in personal terms," says Corrigan, adding that Vietnam films have gone through many different phases.
"For me, Vietnam becomes almost metaphoric. It rattled a lot of cages in our feelings about family, national identity and history."
Reach Dr. Corrigan through the Office of News & Media Relations.
This Week at Temple . . .
Tuesday, April 25, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.: SPRING FLING STREET FAIR -- With finals just around the corner, Temple's annual Spring Fling gives students a chance to have some fun prior to hitting the books. This year's street fair features bands playing throughout the day at the Bell Tower, food and merchandise vendors, and special booths, where students can do everything from bungee jump to play laser-tag. (13th St., between Diamond St. and Montgomery Ave.)
Tuesday-Sunday, April 25-30: FESTIVAL OF YOUNG MUSICIANS -- The talented young instrumentalists and choristers from Temple's Center for Gifted Young Musicians will showcase their musical gifts in a week-long series of concerts throughout the region, culminating in Sunday's Gala Concert at the Independence Seaport Museum. (For a complete schedule of events and locations, call Temple's Music Prep office, 215-204-1512.)
Friday, April 28, 7:30 p.m., and Sunday, April 30, 3 p.m.: "MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM" -- Temple Opera Theater presents Benjamin Britten's sensuous musical rendering of Shakespeare's comic tale of love and magic, sung in English with supertitles, making it accessible and appealing for even the opera-phobic. (Tomlinson Theater, 13th and Norris Sts.)
Friday, April 28, 2:30 p.m.: PI KAPPA LAMDA HONORS MARIETTA SIMPSON -- The national honor society for music students will induct distinguished Temple alumna Marietta Simpson as an honorary member. Among the most sought-after mezzo sopranos, Simpson has sung with all the major orchestras in the U.S. and under many of the world's great conductors. Students from Temple's Boyer College of Music will perform at the event. (Rock Hall, 1715 N. Broad St.)
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