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Must See T.V.

Hey everybody in New York City and surrounding areas:

Watch Brick by Brick: A Civil Rights Story TONIGHT on channel Thirteen / WNET at 9 pm. It’s FABULOUS, as is the man that made it.

-Sarah

P.S. Congrats Dad!



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3 responses to “Must See T.V.”

  1. Bill says:
    February 10, 2007 at 11:46 am

    Hey Dear,

    It’s sweet of you to put in a plug for the film.

    It was a splendid evening in Yonkers. We showed the film at the new Riverfront Library to about 300 people, mostly from Southwest Yonkers, and friends of the film. People showed up early and we treated them to some kudos for all the people involved who had made it to the Library. Many stood to acknowledge they had been part of the case and/or the film production, which was great to see. Then Adrean, Doris, and Gene spoke to the audience and finally, the head of the Fair Housing Justice Center, introduced the film.

    There were scary moments along the way, the first one when another film came on on WNET’s high definition channel at 9 PM. It was about slavery. We watched it until we figured it wasn’t a promo, but an actual program!

    Once we realized that the problem was that Thirteen’s HD channel doesn’t carry any of Thirteen’s standard definition programming ( it WAS on the regular PBS channel) , we changed over to the DVD backup we had with us and “Brick by Brick” got under way from the beginning. Only, the technician who came to help us thought the DVD wasn’t starting at the beginning, so he re-started it two more times, before I cleared up the misunderstanding and convinced him to leave it running. After that, things settled down and we were able to keep the film going all the way to the end (whew!).
    It was typical of BBB’s production process that we would have to keep trying to get the film out there.

    It was really well recieved. I was so glad that Mary Dorman even got spontaneous applause at the end— when it became clear that she had made a change and accepted the situation.

    Adrean got a huge hand from everyone there … and her whole family was amused by her candid moments in the end credits. The end credits also got a hand— for the film’s dedication, which is “For Hashim and Sarah, and for all those coming up behind them.”

    Mary Dorman didn’t make it. Her husband, Buddy, had hip surgery recently (we know about that!) and she felt she had to stay with him. But the largely African American audience at the library broke into applause for her at the end, which was so heartwarming for me. I told her today on the phone—and she was just really relieved. Apparently, one of her friends told her there would be fights at the library. So we still have some work to do.

    Winston Ross got up to speak afterwards and he was having a hard time keeping it together. He was teary and his voice was shaking when he talked about having leadership thrust upon him, when the local NAACP president resigned and he had to step in back in 1974.

    Gene and Doris stayed with us and partied till 1:30 and Adrean whole gang came… we had a wonderful night.

    I felt you there throughout, dear. I know this film took a big piece of your childhood and young adult years to make and always made things a bit harder than they might have been. I do feel today like we, all of us, did a good thing.

    I love you for being in my corner all these years and trusting that your dad wasn’t just a nut with a camera.

    Love,

    Dad

  2. Bethany says:
    February 10, 2007 at 12:20 pm

    Congratulations Bill and everone involved! And thank you for the long and very moving description of the evening. I wish I had been there. You are an inspiration and I’m proud of you!

  3. becca says:
    February 10, 2007 at 3:31 pm

    Wow — sounds like an amazing and well deserved fulfillment! How great that it came to such a beautiful conclusion. I remember the early early days very clearly. The first cutting out of newspaper articles! Sarah must have been what, 2 or 3 at the newspaper-cutting stage. Those were the days way before the web, for sure. I’m so happy for you — big love and congratulations! I can’t wait to see it myself.
    becca

  4. admin says:
    February 11, 2007 at 5:01 pm

    It sounds so great. I wish I could have been there to join in the celebration. I’m happy to hear that the bad guys didn’t like it… that makes it a true success. If they’d called you up to say congratulations then you’d really have to start worrying. I want to hear the story of the viewing from beginning to end at some point soon.

    Much love,
    your favorite daughter

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