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Tony

For your attention/consideration:

1. ‘Feverhouse’ - liners, negatives, postcard, cassette labels, money guarantee.

2. 2 VHS - FAC 51. Cheque please, delivery v.v. soon.

3. Late nights will be the death of me, hope you enjoy the postcard, and say “hello” to Hilary for me.

Tim

Handwritten note by Tim Chambers to AHW about various video matters c. 1984 on FAC 81 notepaper

#Factory Records #Tony Wilson #Tim Chambers #Feverhouse #Ikon Video

The Saluting Marine - Tim Chambers

The Saluting Marine – Tim Chambers

Marine Veteran SSgt Tim Chambers has always been gregarious. As a high school student he was the school Mascot (The Silverton Fox), and loved to interact with people. Now he gets to do that all the time as “The Saluting Marine.” Tim has been a protector since he was a child. At age 8, in a family of 6, he had to bathe his siblings, walk them to school, and watch out for them. But it was his…

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#Marine Corps #Saluting Marine #Semper Fidelis #Tim Chambers #USMC

"The Mighty Macs" Review

Tim Chambers' "The Mighty Macs" (***/*****)

Upon watching the “The Mighty Macs”, I constantly pondered a wide variety of reasons that it had sat on the shelf since 2009. I came to the conclusion that Carla Gugino, not quite the sex symbol director Tim Chambers thought she’d become in “Entourage,” was not a big enough actress for the studio to be comfortable endorsing her as a star.

Once I realized that “Freestyle Releasing” was the production company that released the film (who’ve given us “I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell” and “The Collector,” among many other subpar films), I knew the lack of star power wasn’t the case. I then wondered whether or not this guy Tim Chambers was giving the studio shit about having final cut and holding the film back.

I ruled out this idea upon realizing that Chambers’ fame includes (almost solely) selling reality TV show ideas. But, when I got to the movie and saw potential coach Cathy Rush (played by Gugino) step into the office of Mother St. John (Ellen Burstyn NAILED this role) and apply for a coaching job, I knew I was seeing “Coach Carter” and “Glory Road” all over again.

If you’re a basketball fan like I am, you already know the story. It’s the typical “ex-star player first-time coach” movie. If the viewer knows the least bit about the history of basketball, they already knew the story of Immaculata College, who won the first National Women’s College Basketball Championship in 1972 after almost crumbling financially. The school then went on to win championships in 1973 and 1974, all because of Rush’s persistent hard work and excessive demand of her players.

Be sure to expect the typical wide variety of players coming together to form a team. You have the poor girl who got overlooked by the big schools, the sole African-American girl, the girl whose parents don’t know she’s attending a Christian college and the tall girl who never played basketball, among others.

Gugino is somewhat believable as the hard-knocks coach and Burstyn hit the role of the tough-as-nails yet not as enforcing as she wants to be nun on the bulls eye, but the star of the last act of the film is the unquestionably the announcer, played by Joe Conklin (a Pennsylvania local stand-up comedian). He provides cheesy narration for the semi-final and championship games, screaming phrases like “Time out Cathy Rush!” and “The Mighty Macs are Number 1!” with hilarious enthusiasm.

As much as I’m not a fan of the cliché underdog story, this film undoubtably made me laugh. There is a subtle hint of desperation for the future of Catholicism even though Immaculata ultimately prevails, with many shots of immobile nuns who can clearly no longer teach or preach. However, these nuns manage to support the team at the championship game vs. West Chester State College, acting as the cheerleaders for the all women school with their biblically-inspired chants. Also, the camera work of the film is rather good, as hi-low angle shots accurately display the David-Goliath relationship between Immaculata and their opponents.

For a G rated film, you could do much, much worse than “The Mighty Macs.” Even though this film is literally almost identical to “Glory Road,” there is considerably better acting by the all-female cast compared to the all-male cast. This is not a kids movie, if anything it’s a movie for girls of any age seriously interested in basketball, and the film is true to itself as no situations are out of the ordinary like “Coach Carter,” for example. With that said, there is still many better films out there that you could spend $10 on.