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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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THIS WEEKEND YOU MUST WATCH one of the most inspiring films I’ve ever seen, and one that speaks directly to this moment: A MOST BEAUTIFUL THING.
This profoundly uplifting documentary by award-winning director and
Olympic rower Mary Mazzio, absolutely lives up to its title. The film
tells the true story of a group of high school boys in 1998 growing up
on Chicago’s tough west side who became the first African American HS
rowing team in the U.S. The self-described sons of prostitutes and
addicts, from rival gangs and neighborhoods had to learn to row together
as one team when they took up the sport at an experimental program that
presented itself at Manley High School. Oscar and Grammy Award-winning
performer and Chicago native Common–who also co-executive produced-
narrates this unlikely story and director Mazzio catches up with these
men who reunite 20 years later to recapture the race and the experience
which altered their inner lives and outer destinies.
The ripple effect of the film’s narrative is powerful. It starts with
the subjects themselves: team captain Arshay Cooper whose memoir
inspired the film, Malcolm Hawkins, Preston Grandberry, and Alvin Ross.
These men are remarkably open and expressive about the profound
psychological and emotional effect of rowing together and how that
transformed the way they saw themselves and each other. It becomes clear
that rowing for each of these individuals created a channel for
empathy……
Click here to read the full review on Joyce’s Choices
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8/1/2020