[NFBWATlk] March Events

[Steve Cook]

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Below are the vents for the month of March that everyone is invited to! 

Friday, March 1, 2024 at 8:00 PM eastern
Maestro (2023) movie audio described

Saturday, March 2, 2024 at 11:00 AM Eastern
Menus 4 All app demonstration
We have representatives from Menus 4 All to demo their app and take questions

Friday, March 8, 2024 at 8:00 PM Eastern
Shawshank Redemption [US] (1994) audio described movie

Friday, March 22, 2024 at 8:00 PM Eastern
Trivia Night: To pre-register only for Trivia Night, send David Bundy a message at bundy at pobox.com

NFB of SC Zoom

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You do not have to be in South Carolina to participate. We’re looking for National support and we have pushed the drawing date back to March 23, 2024 in order to help us with ticket sales the drawing will take place at our statewide leadership conference for our Nfb C state affiliate . You do not have to be present to win.
Lori Anne Coley
803-316–9838 
President:
NFBSC Sports & Rec Division

Maestro
Leonard Bernstein,
at the age of nearly 70, plays a sequence on a piano from his opera 
A Quiet Place
while being interviewed in his home.
[7]
After he finishes, he shares brief details regarding the significant impact left on him by 
Felicia,
his wife of many years, and mentions seeing her ghost.
In 1943, Leonard—then the 25-year-old assistant conductor of the 
New York Philharmonic
—makes his conducting debut at short notice when guest conductor 
Bruno Walter
falls ill. His exceptional performance enjoys a rapturous reception from the audience and catapults him to fame. Despite being in an intermittent relationship
with clarinetist 
David Oppenheim,
he falls for aspiring actress Felicia Montealegre at a party and the two begin dating. He breaks up with David, who is heartbroken but reluctantly accepts Leonard's choice. Leonard and Felicia ultimately marry and have three children: Jamie, Alexander, and Nina. Throughout their marriage, they are seen supporting each other in their careers.
By the mid-1950s, the Bernsteins live a highly affluent life in the public eye, with Leonard having composed several successful operas and 
Broadway
musicals, including 
Candide
and 
West Side Story.
Felicia combats concerns raised about Leonard's affairs with men, insistent that she holds rein over him as his wife. As the years pass, however, Leonard's dalliances—as well as his alcohol and substance abuse—take a deep toll on their marriage. These issues are compounded when Jamie hears whispers of her father's infidelity. Leonard attempts to deny the rumors as fueled by "jealousies".
One 
Thanksgiving,
after Leonard returns home to their apartment in 
The Dakota
late from a bender, he and Felicia have an explosive argument where she insists that he has hate in his heart, and will "die a lonely old queen" if he
continues on his current path.
[8]
Despite the breakdown of their relationship, the couple remains married through Leonard's composition of 
Mass
in 1971. In 1973, Leonard conducts 
Mahler
's 
Resurrection Symphony
in a legendary performance at 
Ely Cathedral,
England. Amidst the uproarious reception, Felicia reconciles with Leonard, insistent that "there's no hate in [his] heart".
Felicia is diagnosed with breast cancer which has metastasized to the lung; despite surgeries and an aggressive chemotherapy regimen, her condition deteriorates,
and she dies in Leonard's arms in 1978. Overcome with grief, Leonard and the children abandon their lavish home shortly afterward. Leonard is shown once
again in 1987, teaching the art of conducting and still partying, as well as having affairs with his much younger male students. Returning to the interview,
Leonard admits that he misses Felicia terribly, before his mind flashes back to an image of her, back in their youth, walking into their yard.
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list of 21 items
Carey Mulligan
as 
Felicia Montealegre
Bradley Cooper
as 
Leonard Bernstein
Matt Bomer
as 
David Oppenheim
Vincenzo Amato
as 
Bruno Zirato
Greg Hildreth as Isaac
Michael Urie
as 
Jerry Robbins
Brian Klugman
as 
Aaron Copland
Nick Blaemire as 
Adolph Green
Mallory Portnoy as 
Betty Comden
Sarah Silverman
as Shirley Bernstein
Yasen Peyankov as 
Serge Koussevitzky
Zachary Booth
as 
Mendy Wager
Miriam Shor
as Cynthia O'Neal
Maya Hawke
as Jamie Bernstein
Scott Ellis as Harry Kraut
Gideon Glick
as 
Tommy Cothran
Josh Hamilton
as 
John Gruen
June Gable
as Old Lady
Sam Nivola as Alexander Bernstein
Alexa Swinton
as Nina Bernstein
Kate Eastman as Ellen Adler

Shawshank Redemption

In early 1947, 
Portland, Maine,
banker Andy Dufresne arrives at 
Shawshank State Prison
to serve two 
consecutive life sentences
for murdering his wife and her lover. He is befriended by Ellis "Red" Redding, a 
contraband
smuggler serving a life sentence, who procures a 
rock hammer
and a large poster of 
Rita Hayworth
for Andy. Assigned to work in the prison laundry, Andy is frequently 
raped
by prison gang "the Sisters" and their leader, Bogs Diamond.
In 1949, Andy overhears the captain of the guards, Byron Hadley, complaining about being 
taxed on an inheritance
and offers to help him shelter the money legally. After an assault by the Sisters nearly kills Andy, Hadley beats and cripples Bogs, who is subsequently
transferred to another prison; Andy is not attacked again. Warden Samuel Norton meets Andy and reassigns him to the decrepit prison library to assist elderly
inmate Brooks Hatlen, a 
front
to use Andy's financial expertise to manage financial matters for other prison staff, guards from other prisons, and the warden himself. Andy begins writing
weekly letters to the 
state legislature
requesting funds to improve the library.
Brooks is paroled in 1954 after serving 50 years, but he cannot adjust to the outside world and eventually hangs himself. The legislature sends a library
donation that includes a recording of 
The Marriage of Figaro
; Andy plays 
an excerpt
over the public address system and is punished with 
solitary confinement.
After his release from solitary, Andy explains to a dismissive Red that hope is what gets him through his sentence. In 1963, Norton begins exploiting prison labor for public works, profiting by undercutting skilled labor costs and receiving bribes. Andy launders the money using the alias "Randall Stephens".
In 1965, Andy and Red befriend Tommy Williams, a young prisoner incarcerated for burglary. A year later, Andy helps him pass his 
General Educational Development
(GED) exam. Tommy reveals to Red and Andy that his cellmate at another prison had claimed responsibility for the murders of which Andy was convicted.
Andy brings the information to Norton who refuses to listen. When Andy mentions the money laundering, Norton sends Andy to solitary confinement and has
Hadley fatally shoot Tommy under the guise of an escape attempt. After Andy refuses to continue the money laundering, Norton threatens to destroy the library,
remove Andy's protection by the guards, and move him to worse conditions. Andy is released from solitary confinement after two months, and tells a skeptical
Red that he dreams of living in 
Zihuatanejo,
a Mexican town on the Pacific coast. He asks Red to promise, once he is released, to travel to a specific hayfield near 
Buxton
and recover a package that Andy buried there. Red worries about Andy's mental well-being, especially when he learns Andy asked a fellow inmate for a rope.
At the next day's 
roll call,
the guards find Andy's cell empty. An irate Norton throws a rock at a poster of 
Raquel Welch
hanging on the cell wall, revealing a tunnel that Andy had dug with his rock hammer over nearly two decades. The previous night, Andy used the rope to
escape through the tunnel and prison sewage pipe, taking Norton's suit, shoes, and 
ledger,
containing evidence of the money laundering and corruption at Shawshank. While guards search for him, Andy poses as Randall Stephens, withdraws over $370,000
[a]
of the laundered money from several banks, and mails the ledger to a local newspaper. State police arrive at Shawshank and take Hadley into custody, while
Norton commits suicide to avoid arrest.
The following year, Red is paroled after serving 40 years but struggles to adapt to life outside prison and fears that he never will. Remembering his promise
to Andy, he visits Buxton and finds a cache containing money and a letter asking him to come to Zihuatanejo. Red violates his parole by traveling to 
Fort Hancock, Texas,
and crossing the border into Mexico, admitting that he finally feels hope. He finds Andy sanding an old boat on a Zihuatanejo beach, and the two reunited friends happily embrace.
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A standing caucasian man with short white and grey hair, wears glasses and a blue coat: He faces left towards the camera smiling.
An African American man with a beard and short hair, both a mix of white and grey, and wearing an earring in each ear: He is smiling towards the camera.
Tim Robbins
in 2012 (left) and 
Morgan Freeman
in 2006
list of 7 items
Tim Robbins
as Andy Dufresne: A banker sentenced to life in prison in 1947 for the murder of his wife and her lover
[3]
Morgan Freeman
as Ellis Boyd "Red" Redding: A prison contraband smuggler who befriends Andy
[4]
[5]
Bob Gunton
as Samuel Norton: The pious and cruel warden of Shawshank penitentiary
[3]
William Sadler
as Heywood: A member of Red's gang of long-serving convicts
[4]
[6]
Clancy Brown
as Byron Hadley: The brutal captain of the prison guards
[7]
[8]
Gil Bellows
as Tommy Williams: A young convict imprisoned for burglary in 1965
[4]
[9]
James Whitmore
as Brooks Hatlen: The elderly prison librarian, imprisoned at Shawshank for over five decades
[10]
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