http://movies.tvguide.com/stevie/118900?rss=object The latest on Stevie TV Guide RSS Publishing Engine V 1.0 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 1440 http://www.tvguide.com/images/tvg_rss_logo.gif http://movies.tvguide.com/stevie/118900?rss=object http://video.tvguide.com/ID/824050?rss=object <p><a href="http://video.tvguide.com/ID/824050?rss=object"><img align="left" border="0" src="http://videodetective.com/photos/657/027604_22.jpg" width="60" height="45" alt="Stevie" style="margin:0 5px 5px" /></a>In the early '80s, Steve James was a student at Southern Illinois University who volunteered for the local Big Brother program and served as a mentor for Stephen Dale Fielding (Stevie for short), a troubled 11-year-old boy with unhappy family relationships. Given up by his mother when her husband decided he didn't want him in the house, Stevie was primarily raised by his step-grandmother and had already begun to reveal a stubborn and easily distracted personality when he met James. After he graduated from college, James lost contact with Fielding, but in 1995, after James had gone on to a career as a documentary filmmaker (and won acclaim for his film Hoop Dreams), he was reintroduced to Stevie, only to learn that his life had taken a number of wrong turns. After a number of scrapes with the law and on-going battles with his family, Fielding had been charged with molesting his eight-year-old cousin, and he'd opted for a trial (which could lead to a twenty year prison sentence) rather than receive counseling,</p> Video Detective http://video.tvguide.com/ID/824050?rss=object Mon, 17 Mar 2008 08:31:41 -0500 <p><a href="http://video.tvguide.com/ID/824050?rss=object"><img align="left" border="0" src="http://videodetective.com/photos/657/027604_22.jpg" width="60" height="45" alt="Stevie" style="margin:0 5px 5px" /></a>In the early '80s, Steve James was a student at Southern Illinois University who volunteered for the local Big Brother program and served as a mentor for Stephen Dale Fielding (Stevie for short), a troubled 11-year-old boy with unhappy family relationships. Given up by his mother when her husband decided he didn't want him in the house, Stevie was primarily raised by his step-grandmother and had already begun to reveal a stubborn and easily distracted personality when he met James. After he graduated from college, James lost contact with Fielding, but in 1995, after James had gone on to a career as a documentary filmmaker (and won acclaim for his film Hoop Dreams), he was reintroduced to Stevie, only to learn that his life had taken a number of wrong turns. After a number of scrapes with the law and on-going battles with his family, Fielding had been charged with molesting his eight-year-old cousin, and he'd opted for a trial (which could lead to a twenty year prison sentence) rather than receive counseling,</p> Stevie