Page 14 - Boca Exposure - June '24

Page 14, Boca Exposure
Boca Public Library Speaker On Introduction To Pride Authors

Join author and journalist winning writer Julie Marie Wade, whose 2023 essay collection or forthcoming lit-mag publications include RFD, Pleiades,
Gregg Shapiro for an Otherwise has been named as a Lambda Literary Award Orange Blossom Review, San Pedro River Review, BarBar,
engaging introduction to finalist; Black, gay poet Jubi Arriola Headley whose 2024 Otherwise Engaged, The Penn Review, Gargoyle, The Post
notable authors and their poetry collection Bound was just published; and Rick Karlin, Grad Journal, confetti, SoFloPoJo, and BP Review, in addition
works in contemporary author of the forthcoming Last Call South Florida, a history to the anthology Chameleon Chimera, an Anthology of South
LGBTQ+ literature. He will of LGBTQ+ bars from West Palm Beach to Key West. Florida Poets (Purple Ink Press, 2024). Shapiro lives in South
feature South Florida writers Introduction to Pride Authors from South Florida with Florida with his husband Rick, and their dog Coco.
such as Caridad Moro- Gregg Shapiro is a free event on Thursday, June 20, from 6 Shapiro states, “There’s no better time than Pride month
Gronlier, the newly named p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at the Downtown Library, located at 400 to familiarize yourself with the rich literary history of the
Poet Laureate of Miami- NW 2nd Avenue.. The Thursday Night Speakers program is LGBTQ+ community, including the work of authors based
Dade and the author of the sponsored by the Friends of the Library. right here in South Florida. As an entertainment journalist
award-winning 2021 poetry Gregg Shapiro is the author of nine books, including and creative writer, I am uniquely positioned to speak from
collection Tortillera; award- Gregg Shapiro Refrain in Light and an anchor on Queer News Tonight. Recent both sides of the literary aisle.”
Boca Helping Hands Asks For Help

From The Community For Summer Food Donations

With snowbirds heading north and kids wrapping up for food. This is an opportunity Most needed items include beans,
the school year, Boca Helping Hands (BHH) is facing a for the community to donate canned fruit, canned vegetables,
scarcity of food donations and food drives. Boca Helping food, or even organize a food cereal boxes, granola bars, canned
Hands said the community can help by organizing drive with their neighborhood, soup, crackers, canned fish, jelly,
food drives on their own to help with the summer food office, church, or other group.” boxed or canned milk, pasta, peanut
shortage. People can drop off food butter, canned poultry, powdered
“Each summer we face a food shortage, with so many collected from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 juice, and rice.
of our usual food donors leaving the area during these p.m. Monday through Friday Call (561) 417-0913 or visit
months,” said Greg Hazle, executive director of Boca at Boca Helping Hands’ main bocahelpinghands.org for more
Helping Hands. “Children are not getting meals at schools location, 1500 N.W. First Court, information.
over the summer and our local families have a greater need Boca Raton.
Film Review: Phantom Of The Open

By Nils A. Shapiro But the best is yet to come! And while I don’t want to give improved playing he entered a half-dozen more British Opens
away too many spoilers here, perhaps it will suffice to note under different names and using various disguises!
Country Club Golfers that, in his very failure to perform at a championship level the What a kick to have him in your foursome. For now, meet
Will Love spectators lining the course applauded him at every hole and him on film. (Mark Rylance in the role of Flitcroft deserved
This Film! golfers around the world came to love Maurice Flitcroft as an every award possible for his performance.)
average guy – “one of their own.” An American country club *****
In 1975, Tom Watson set up a golf tournament and trophy in his name … and, as The Boca Raton Public Library has this film available on
won the British Open we learn later in the film, after practicing his skills and much DVD for cardholders.
Golf Championship. One
of the millions of people
who was watching
television in England
that day and happened to
see the adulation pouring
onto the winner was a
man, Maurice Flitcroft,
who had never played a
hole of golf in his entire
life.
But Flitcroft, a father
of three grown sons who
was getting on in years and tired of his job as a construction
crane operator, liked what he had just seen on TV and decided
that it would be fun to sign up for the next year’s British Open.
This British film, which was released in the United States
in 2022 and may still be streaming now on Netflix, is based
on the unlikely but true and heartwarming story of Flitcroft’s
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Completely naïve about such matters, Flitcroft applied
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he belonged … or his handicap, a word that confusedly
meant something entirely different to him. He overcame
such problems by returning with a set of documents he
had prepared with the help of his sweet and devoted wife,
Jean (portrayed by Sally Hawkins)—completely false but
so impressive that the tournament officials considered him
qualified!
The difficult to believe fact that Flitcroft was accepted
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