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Chapter Three, Pt. IV
By Terrance Afer-Anderson
“Rashida?” Jerry’s anxious inquiry shattered the sudden, deafening silence created by the broken cell connection. In the next moment, he realized that Rashida had indeed ended the call, having been summoned by some, ill-defined emergency.
Jerry pulled his iPhone away from his face and looked at the screen, affirming that the call had in fact been terminated. He sat there a moment longer, grave concern causing his brow to furrow, his cheeks to tighten.
Norfolk, VA
The Hermitage Museum & Gardens will show five classic films on the back lawn of the Museum this summer for its outdoor movie series, Friday Night Films.
By Terrance Afer-Anderson
Chapter Three, Pt. 3
Finally, Rashida exhaled, not realizing that she had been holding her breath, in anxious anticipation, as Jerry shared the events of the wake. At the sound of her sighing, Jerry felt suddenly ill at ease. He threw his hand against his forehead and collapsed back into the recliner.
“Oh My God,” he said. “What am I doing?!!! I don’t even know you and here I am sharing something that borders upon the morose. I am so sor...” Rashida interrupted him.
Norfolk, VA
Sunsets on the River at the Hermitage Museum & Gardens continues this spring with four concerts on the Hermitage back lawn. Admission is $10 for the general public and free for Hermitage Museum members.
By Terrance Afer-Anderson
Chapter 3, Continued
“I could use an angel about now,” Jerry said. “Things have been going pretty well for me professionally. I’m at the top of my game.” Jerry paused, then continued. “But personally … well after losing my mom sometime ago … things have not been the same for either me or my father.”
By Kam Williams
Film Critic
Ken Burns has been making films for more than thirty years. Since the Academy Award-nominated Brooklyn Bridge in 1981, Ken has gone on to direct and to produce some of the most acclaimed historical documentaries ever made.
Ken’s films have won ten Emmy Awards and two Oscar nominations, and in September of 2008, at the News & Documentary Emmy Awards, Ken was honored by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences with a Lifetime Achievement Award. Here, he talks about his latest film, The Central Park Five, co-directed by his daughter, Sarah, and her husband, David McMahon, which premiered on PBS on April 16th.
By Terrance Afer-Anderson
Culture and Arts Columnist
New Journal and Guide
Neil Simon’s The Odd Couple, the classic comedy about a grossly mismatched pair of animated roommates, premiered on Broadway at the Plymouth Theatre on March 10, 1965, featuring Walter Matthau, as “Oscar Madison,” and Art Carney as “Felix Ungar.”
Directed by Mike Nichols, the play ran for 964 performances, before closing two years later at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre, in 1967. While only nominated for “Best Play” that year, a scant three months after its opening night, the production won four Tony Awards, e.g., “Best Author,” “Best Direction,” “Best Scenic Design” and “Best Actor” for Matthau.
Chapter Three, Pt. I
By Terrance Afer-Anderson
Rashida was lounging on the back deck of the mauve-colored, stucco, Sedona, Arizona home that she shared with her mother. A deep crimson bluff was visible nearby and the sky was awash in an intoxicating periwinkle blue. Scant cirrus clouds moved almost imperceptibly across the stratosphere.
Ending of Chapter II
By Terrance Afer-Anderson
Oscar and Jerry stared at one another for a very long, silent moment; Jerry was not sure what to make of this new revelation, Oscar uncertain how his son would digest this unusual bit of news.
Finally, Jerry sunk back into his chair, his head swinging from side to side in disbelief. Oscar raised himself up on an elbow and tried to console him. “Son…,” Jerry interrupted him, his head still swaying to and fro, his eyes closed, his hand raised high, waving back and forth in gentle dismissal.
“Wait-a-minute, Daddy,” Jerry said. “Just… please… give me a second.”
By Kam Williams
Film Critic
Born in Chicago on July 13, 1942, Harrison Ford was a late bloomer who only developed an interest in acting during his senior year of college. After graduation, he moved to Los Angeles where he worked as carpenter for almost a decade while struggling trying to launch his showbiz career.
Here, the Oscar-nominated thespian (for Witness) talks about his latest outing opposite Chad Boseman as Brooklyn Dodgers’ general manager Branch Rickey in 42, a biopic about Jackie Robinson’s breaking the color barrier in baseball.