[NABS-L] 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 <mailto: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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