CODA

We went to Andy and Robin's Sunday evenng for supper and the movies! They had subscribed to AppleTV so they could watch the film, CODA, which won Best Picture at the Academy Awards. We really enjoyed the film. It is a "feel-good" movie for sure, but also a great movie, with outstanding performances by all the leads. And of course, it broke some "sound barriers" so to speak! For us it had the added attraction of being a lot about singing. Singing and signing!

Emilia Jones, Troy Katsur and Marlee Matlin, stars of CODA. Katsur won the Best Actor award. He is deaf, as is Marlee Matlin. Jones played their daughter, who is a hearing person (in life and in the film) and in the film is the bridge between her family, all of whom are deaf, and the hearing world in which they are trying to make a living in the fishing industry. Her passion is singing, and she is good - good enough to get into Berklee School of Music in Boston, but that raises huge issues for the family, who feel they cannot survive without her. LATER Tonight was a heart-breaker in the NCAA championship game! UNC led Kansas by 15 points at the half, but lost by three in the last second. Caleb Love's 3-point shot just before the buzzer fell short. It was like the Baylor game - UNC's big half-time lead collapsed in the second half. They hung in there, but couldn't pull off the miracle this time. Several of their players took quite a battering during the game. It was exciting basketball, but sad for Heels fans. But Adam Lucas, the Heels' "historian," had this last word: "Absolutely zero people believed the Tar Heels would be playing on the last Monday night of the season, and here they were, just the 12th team in school history to play for a national title. 44 players have enrolled at Carolina as first-year or transfer players in the last decade. 28 of those (63.6 percent) have been part of a team that played for a title. It's so, so hard to get here. And the Tar Heels are doing it with regularity right now. What a season, including some of the most memorable wins in school history. What a team. Stay tuned to Carolina social media channels for information on the team's return home tomorrow, likely to be mid-afternoon."

Adam Lucas carrying the TarHeels 2017 National Championship trophy. Next year, here we come! Go Heels!