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Kafi Dixon is one of the producers of A Reckoning in Boston and a subject of the film. (Courtesy)
Late one night in an adult education classroom in Dorchester, Kafi Dixon compares the toll of living in an environment that upholds white supremacy to a “slow drip, drip, on a hard stone.” Her comment prompts a burst of discussion. One student ups the comparison to a trickle and the group shares a laugh when another adds, “Turn that faucet off!”
Drawn to the intimacy and transformative potential of the Clemente Course in the Humanities designed to give adults with limited financial resources a chance to rigorously study literature, history, and philosophy Newton filmmaker James Rutenbeck thought he’d make a documentary full of scenes just like the one described, inspired by students like Dixon. And in fact, he tried.
Once and forever Punky Brewster Soleil Moon Frye was on Jimmy Kimmel Live to promote the Peacock “continuation” of her old NBC sitcom and her new documentary about growing up in Hollywood, Kid 90.
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Jimmy Kimmel Live, former and forever Punky Brewster Soleil Moon Frye came off as a blessedly normal, well-adjusted, and still-enthusiastic champion of her own self and career. That might seem like a low bar to clear and make note of, but the phrase “former child star” all too rarely fails to be followed by serious heartbreak and sadness, so good on her. And why shouldn’t Frye be happy? The let’s-just-try-it NBC offshoot that is Peacock has just handed the actress a decades-later “continuation” (in Frye’s words) of the life and spunky times of her iconic 1980s character in the new series
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