Art is in the eye of the beholder and the passion thereof time and limitless. The same can be said about Brad Twaddle’s immeasurable energy and passion for Dancing and the Arts.
Few works of literary fiction are set in Yonkers or depict life in Yonkers. Neil Simon wrote Lost in Yonkers, but he wasn't even from Yonkers. Lawrence Ferlinghetti was born in Yonkers, but that fact is frequently missing from his biography. Don DeLillo lived in Yonkers for many years but never wrote about it. It's about time that Yonkers should finally get its own place in the sun.
It isn’t every day that a federal bureaucrat gets featured in a film half a century after his service in the nation’s capital and more than a decade after his death. But filmmaker John de Graaf felt that Stewart Udall’s story needed to be heard by a new generation.
“I have had the great privilege and opportunity of operating in that special space between the U.S. and ‘us’ for decades—and if I have learned one thing, it is that there is only ‘us,’ no ‘them.’” - Ken Burns, Our America