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Love, a road-trip and an interpretive Dance

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  In case you've forgotten who I am...it's Eiayay and I have a blog. Yeah, I know it has been a while. Luckily I don't make my living as a writer or I'd have gotten the sack about two months ago. Well I'm back after a little hiatus & a vacation, which I will be writing about soon. (seriously, I will... wait come back here..) I was scrolling through movies, as I do sometimes, and landed on this weeks Reel, 2011's CLOUDBURST. I didn't even read the description, I was just intrigued by the title. It turned out to be a great decision (I should listen to myself more often.)  Stella ( Olympia Dukakis ) and Dot ( Brenda Fricker )have had each others backs for 31 years. They have lived together and loved deeply. Their love affair has been a secret, not secret for all of those years. All who chose to know, knew. Dot's grand-daughter Molly chose to live in ignorant and blissful denial, so when Dot, who is blind starts to need more care, Molly ignores the lovin...

"Children Grow up to be People One Day"

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The Pandemic seems to lend itself to a sense of Nostalgia and also a lot of procrastination. I am back with my Reel of the Week. This weeks reel is off my favorites list. It's 1967's TO SIR WITH LOVE".  It's the 60's and Mark Thackery ( Sidney Poitier ) is a Black man, trying to get along ,and get a job in the field of engineering. Again and again ,  the Color wall   rears it's ugly head. So when he is offered a job teaching troubled High School students in a poor neighborhood, he jumps at the chance of employment. His first day of school he is confronted with a classroom full of surly, brash, irrepressible teens, who in a years time be unleashed into the World with no grasp of what awaits them. Thakery feels in over his head and the students mask their uncertainty at his presence, with bravado and an   escalation of unruly behavior, hoping to scare him off like previous teachers. Thackery has experienced worse in his day to day life as a Black man   so steels...