South & Canal Winchester Messenger - February 12th, 2023

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Barber Museum in
Canal Winchester
The National Barber Museum in Canal
Winchester is located at 135 Franklin St.
(behind the former CW High School building).
The museum, housed in approximately
5,000 square feet, showcases art, artifacts,
and memorabilia from decades of the
barbering profession. For information
call(614) 837-8400.
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“80 for Brady” enjoyable and touching
I do not often experience a conflict of the
heart when it comes to choosing which
movie to review for my column, but making
a decision as to whether I wanted to give
my time and my dwindling coffers to “80
for Brady” had me well and truly torn.
Editor’s Notebook
Dedra
Cordle
I did have an interest
in this film because
it stars four legendary
actors: Sally Field,
Jane Fonda, Rita
Moreno, and Lily
Tomlin. But I also did
not have an interest in
this film because it
also stars Tom Brady
— one of the most legendary
NFL quarterbacks
who recently
retired for the second time and whose presence
looms over this film as much as his
specter will throughout the sport for all of
eternity.
Unlike most football fans whose loyalties
do not lay with the New England
Patriots (or the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, or
whatever team on the west coast team that
may entice him to come out of retirement
later this spring), I have never been a
Brady-hater, but man has he been grating
for the past couple years. First there was
the acceptance of the pandemic-relief funds
for his multi-million dollar health and
wellness business, then there was the
drawn out first retirement that had him
basking in thousands of puff pieces for
months and then taking it all back, then
there were the bratty sideline antics when
things were not going his way for once, and
then there was the non-fungible token
scandal, and now I am just about tired of
seeing him and hearing about him. If you
add all that up, and then throw in the fact
that he is a producer on this film and gets
a percentage of the box office profit, it
makes you not want to be involved in anything
he is involved in, right?
Columbus Metropolitan Library partnered with BalletMet and
the Columbus Symphony to make a select number of passes available
for library customers to check out for free.
One BalletMet Culture Pass will be available at each of CML’s
23 locations beginning two weeks before each performance during
the 2022-23 season. Each pass is valid for up to two people (children
or adults). Ten Columbus Symphony Culture Passes will be
available at each library location beginning two weeks before each
performance during the 2022-23 season. Each pass is valid for one
adult (children under 16 are free). Passes are valid for
Masterworks performances only.
The Culture Pass program enables library customers to borrow
passes just as they would a book: using their library card. This
one-time pass, which must be checked out in person, grants customers
limited free access to institutions that would otherwise
charge admission fees. For information, visit
columbuslibrary.org/culture-pass.
After much internal debate between
this film and M. Night Shyamalan’s
dystopian adaptation, “Knock at the
Cabin,” I decided to stick with a vow I
made to support novels, movies, and television
shows that are women-led, womencentered,
and showcase people of a certain
age living active and full lives. That even
includes women’s lives that partially
revolve around finding inspiration from a
famous athlete named Tom Brady.
“80 for Brady” is an infectiously joyous
film. It has moments that will make you
cringe or even give you a headache because
of how saccharine it can be, but it is also an
engaging and lighthearted story about four
friends who take comfort in sport and in
each other. Thanks in large part to the
chemistry between the main cast, “80 for
Brady” has a charm that shines through
despite being centered around someone
who seems so devoid of it at times.
Loosely inspired by a true story, “80 for
Brady” follows longtime best friends Betty
(Field), Trish (Fonda), Maura (Moreno)
and Lou (Lily Tomlin) whose love for Tom
Brady and the New England Patriots
knows no bounds. Despite having lived on
the east coast for most of their lives, the
quartet had little interest in football before
Tom Brady came onto the scene. In fact,
they really didn’t want to watch that fateful
game between the Pats and the New
York Jets but had to because Lou’s television
would not change the channel. When a
young Tom Brady came in for an injured
Drew Bledsoe, the friends were smitten by
his good looks and calm demeanor in the
pocket. Instant fans were made that day,
and watching him play throughout the
years helped Lou through her cancer treatments,
took Maura’s mind off the loss of
her husband, gave Betty a release from her
demanding husband, and allowed Trish to
find a second career writing Rob
Gronkowski erotica. (Seriously.)
Despite their team making several
appearances at the Super Bowl, the friends
had never attended one of the big games
(probably because they cost more than a
down payment on a new home) but decide
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to enter a contest through a local radio station
that would send them down to
Houston to see the 2017 matchup with the
Atlanta Falcons. Having little confidence
that their story of finding perseverance
through watching Tom Brady and the team
would win them the ultimate prize, they
try to put it out of their minds and hearts.
But then Lou makes the announcement
that they did snag the ultimate prize and
they would soon be embarking on a journey
towards “the best day of their lives.”
Naturally, things do not always do as
planned, especially in a comedy that features
Fonda and Tomlin together with all
of their chaotic energy.
Written by “Booksmart” scribes Emily
Halpern and Sarah Haskins, the script is a
nod to the fact that there is no age limit
when it comes to having fun. Not only do
the characters have a good time as they get
involved in various shenanigans during
their Super Bowl experience, but it seems
as if the primary and secondary actors are
having a good time, too. Watching all of
this together makes the action all the more
engaging to the audience too, despite how
outlandish some of the scenes may get.
Even with the more farcical elements
within this story, everything that happens
in this film is well-intentioned and
designed to garner laughs. Despite the
overall lighthearted tone of the film, there
are moments in which the story concentrates
of real-life issues related to cancer,
death, and love — all of which we can relate
to.
As a credit to the writers and director
Kyle Marvin, all of the transitions between
the silly and the serious feel natural to the
development of the story and, as a result,
makes “80 for Brady” as enjoyable as it is
touching — even with all of the mentions
and cameo appearances of a certain newly
retired quarterback.
Grade: B-
Dedra Cordle is a Messenger staff writer
and columnist.
Libraries make Culture Passes available to the public
Current participating cultural organizations
BalletMet, Columbus Clippers, Columbus Museum of Art,
Columbus Symphony, Columbus Zoo and Aquarium, Franklin Park
Conservatory, National Veterans Memorial and Museum, Ohio
History Center, Pizzuti Collection - Columbus Museum of Art.
Culture Passes are only available for in-person customer checkout
at the specific CML locations listed above. Culture passes cannot
be reserved like traditional library items. However, customers
can check their availability at columbuslibrary.org by typing
“Culture Pass” into the catalog search bar.
Each participating organization offers their passes to CML and
its customers for free. CML does not purchase passes as it does
with traditional library materials. Each organization sets its own
rules for how many individuals are covered under its passes and
on which days the passes will be honored. Partner organizations
also set the number of passes allotted to each designated CML
location.