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Mick LaSalle May 2, 2021Updated: May 2, 2021, 7:22 pm
Olympia Dukakis and Cher won Golden Globe Awards for “Moonstruck” Dukakis for best supporting actress in a musical or comedy, Cher for best actress. Photo: Reed Saxon, Associated Press 1988
Olympia Dukakis, the Academy Award-winning stage and screen actress who died Saturday, May 1, less than two months before her 90th birthday, projected warmth, sparkle and intellectual curiosity in everything she did. With her silver hair and fierce eyes, she was an embodiment of strength, authenticity and clarity.
Dukakis became famous at the age of 56, when she starred as Cher’s mother in “Moonstruck.” Like Gene Hackman, she had an aura of maturity and it took years for her to age into her natural terrain as a screen actress that of a matriarch. Once she reached that ideal age somewhere around 60 she seemed to magically stay there for at least three decades.
Steven Winn March 17, 2021Updated: March 17, 2021, 4:25 pm
Soledad O’Brien taping on set. Photo: Rob Pohle/Hearst
From his couch in rural Kansas, a burly white man who is “between manufacturing jobs” glances up at the camera and looks away. When people put the out-of-work label on you, he says, “it’s hard to imagine how your life could be. It kills the dream.”
Moments later, a member of the Potawatomi Nation speaks proudly of the Indigenous rituals and traditions woven into his identity. His wife offers this amendment about life on the reservation: “As a woman, I’m not equal,” she says. “As a white woman, I’d have it easier.”
BHN president, CEO retiring
Published: 2/4/2020 5:16:57 PM
SPRINGFIELD Katherine B. Wilson, longtime president and CEO of Behavioral Health Network, will retire on June 30, and will be succeeded by Steven Winn, BHN’s current chief operating officer.
Headquartered in Springfield, BHN has been providing behavioral health services to children and families throughout Western Massachusetts since 1938. It includes the Northern Hope Center and Franklin Recovery Center on Federal Street on the former Lunt Silversmith property in Greenfield. With the rise of the opioid epidemic, Wilson guided the strategy to provide more recovery resources in the community.
“She has left a legacy of caring and serving in a way that has made a difference in the lives of thousands of individuals needing behavioral health and recovery services,” said BHN Board Chair George Marion. “Kathy will be sorely missed, but leaves BHN in a strong position to continue its leadership in providing developmental