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Joyces Choices
Joyce Kulhawik, best known as the Emmy Award-winning arts and entertainment critic for CBS-Boston (WBZ-TV 1981-2008), is currently lending her expertise as an arts critic/advocate, motivational speaker, and cancer crusader. Kulhawik is President of the Boston Theater Critics Association, a member of the Boston Society of Film Critics, and Boston Online Film Critics Association. Kulhawik has covered local and national events from Boston and Broadway to Hollywood, reporting live from the Oscars, the Emmys, and the Grammys. Nationally, Kulhawik has co-hosted syndicated movie-review programs with Roger Ebert and Leonard Maltin. Look for her arts & entertainment reviews online at JoycesChoices.com
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Ever hear of Ellis B. Haizlip? I hadn’t. Now I’ll never forget him. MR SOUL!
an award-winning documentary about the first Black nighttime TV talk
show host in America, Ellis Haizlip, who went on the air during the
turbulent late 60’s with a show called SOUL! is a revelation and
documents a revolution!
SOUL! which aired weekly across the country on Public Television between
1968 and 1973 featured a who’s who of legendary artists, among them
Stevie Wonder, Patti Labelle, Al Green, Harry Belafonte, Odetta, Kool
& The Gang, Tito Puente, Wilson Pickett, Gladys Knight, Ashford
& Simpson, a 16 year old Arsenio Hall, B.B. King. etc. etc. I
expected to see a light-hearted variety show with a feast of rare
archival performance footage. What I actually saw blew me away– all that
rare archival footage but folded into a much rarer document– an
explosively rich expression of Black history, an “undiluted black show”
that made visible Black artists and the Black experience heretofore
absent from the airwaves.
MR. SOUL! is as much about its creator as the show he created. Ellis
Haizlip a laid back, out, gay African-American with roots in theater and
dance, and the first Black producer at Public TV’s WNET, was the
producer and host of SOUL! The show filled the void created by a media
that had weaponized images of Blacks in America portraying them as
impoverished, embattled, or otherwise diminished. Ellis’s prime mission
for SOUL! in his words, was to “give people a chance to share in the
Black experience.”
SOUL! not only featured musicians, but also poets, dancers, actors,
activists. There were penetrating conversations conducted by Ellis who
asked….
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9/5/2020