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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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I have loved Tina Turner from the first moment I saw her perform. It may have been her very first TV appearance in 1960 on “American Bandstand.” I surely saw her one and only appearance with the Ike & Tina Turner Revue on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1970. I had no context for what I was seeing. She was galvanic. She was black. She was female and a raw Rock n’ Roll diva, grinding up a storm, all legs, a sexual cyclone who threatened to explode right out of my TV. I knew that I loved everything about her–her confidence, her cheekbones, her sheer abandon. I had a hard time reconciling this powerhouse with what we all came to know about Anna Mae Bullock from Nutbush, Tennessee, how her musician husband Ike Turner had plucked her from oblivion and then tried to pummel her right back into it.
The HBO documentary “Tina” tells the gut-wrenching and triumphant story of Tina Turner’s beginning and her becoming. It also conveys her ambivalence but exquisite truthfulness in sharing the pain of her story in this documentary which we are given to understand is a farewell to her fans. One of Ike & Tina Turner’s biggest hits “River Deep– Mountain High” describes her trajectory perfectly: from a wellspring of talent and resilience, she beat the odds and the baggage, the abuse, the heartache, the musical trends, to somehow envision a future– which she then surpassed.
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SEE IT NOW on HBO and HBO MAX: TINA An Intimate Portrait of the Legendary Singer Tina Turner Told in Her own Words .
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3/30/2021