"Steve is lovable, which is why he can cross over," the director Harold Ramis said.
"There is one who can divide the Red Sea for us and we can cross over on dry ground.
"Iverson is a different kind of quick because of the way he can cross over and shoot".
Ms. Troche is confident that the film can cross over and attract a straight audience, but Ms. Turner thinks it contains too many lesbian in-jokes to cross over.
Blame the control-freak coaches and a system that tells players, as Goodrich said, "If you can cross over and pull up for a 17-footer, you've got game".
He is young, 30, and has had less experience blending in than another designer Bruce Oldfield, who claims that he can "cross over" because he's "amusing and witty and charming".
And as Hispanic populations become more diverse, increasingly there is the question of whether the candidate can cross over, not only to other ethnic groups, but also to other Hispanic subgroups.
Ms. Turner says, "Our sexuality is far more up front than that of the older generation of lesbians". Ms. Troche is confident that the film can cross over and attract a straight audience, but Ms. Turner thinks it contains too many lesbian in-jokes to cross over.
Sometimes the safety team can cross over from a purely advisory committee to actually implementing change themselves.
The catchy "Wanksta" (culled from the "8 Mile" soundtrack) and the current smash single "In Da Club" exemplify how hard-core hip-hop can cross over without going pop.
But it can cross over the line".
