Hawthorne Press Tribune
The Weekly Newspaper of Hawthorne
Herald Publications - El Segundo, Hawthorne, Lawndale & Inglewood Community Newspapers Since 1911 - (310) 322-1830 - Vol. 63, No. 8 - February 25, 2021
Free Drive-Thru Food Giveaway
this Friday in the City of Hawthorne
On Friday, February 26, from 9:00 am to 12:00 pm there will be a food distribution in response to COVID-19. It will take place at Betty Ainsworth Sports Center, 3851 W. El Segundo Blvd., Hawthorne, 90250. There will be no walk-ups. No eligibility required. Please wear
face covering. Line formation begins at 8:30 am and it will be strictly enforced. Photo courtesy Hawthorne High School.
Huber’s Hiccups
News for the City of Good
Neighbors from an Old Guy
named Norb Huber
Golf
I write this with a sad heart
praying for Tiger Woods as he
recuperates from injuries sustained
in his car accident in Palos Verdes
this past Tuesday. I pray that he
may some how find a way to show
his talent on the toughest golf courses in the
world some day in the future. You cannot
overstate what he has meant to the popularity
of golf. A whole generation of young
folks took to the greens to be like Tiger. The
viewership of a tournament would double
if Tiger was playing in it. He was one guy
everyone wanted to watch. A recent HBO
documentary showed just how Tiger became
this larger than life, world famous athlete
and star. All of this was due to playing a
game better than anyone else. For those of
you who have never played golf, it’s tough
to understand how challenging it is for men
and women swinging metal clubs, on green
grass to hit a little white ball into a hole many
yards away. Golf is one of the only sports
where you are not competing against another
competitor, but you are going up against
yourself and the weather conditions and the
course. Golf, along with being a physical
game, is certainly is a mental game. Many
of golf’s instructions can be a corollary to
life. Some of golf’s key tips are: keep your
eye on the ball, keep your head steady, relax
your muscles and get rid of all of your built
up tension. Swing hard but be under control.
Golf is a game of imperfection. No one hits
it in the hole every time. The game was once
described as “a good walk spoiled”, meaning
the beauty of walking on the manicured
grounds is simply a great place to walk and
enjoy, but the game can be so frustrating
that a super nice morning
stroll through the woods is all be
ruined by bad shot followed by a
worse shot. Golf has been viewed
as a rich, white men’s game but
Tiger broke thru that stereotype.
Golf is a great equalizer also. You
don’t have to be big, tall and strong
to excel at this game. A weekend
hacker can hit one shot that looks
just like the pro on television that made or
missed that same shot. Golfers can relate to
the joy, the challenge, the frustration and the
work it takes to be consistently good at their
game. This past year, COVID shut down most
every other sport, but not golf. That is why
the game has enjoyed a great resurgence. Old
and young are taking up the sport or coming
back to play a sport they used to play.
Courses are full. You really need to make a
tee time to reserve a spot. Golf lessons are
booming. Now for the best part of all, the
19th hole is where the cold ones are served.
If you are lucky enough to achieve an ace, a
hole in one, the tradition stands that you treat
everyone in the clubhouse to a drink. Several
years ago, I was fortunate enough to hit one
in. Luckily it was at Westchester Golf Course
where there is no clubhouse nor drinks.
My 32 dear loyal readers, keep your eye
on the ball, hit them straight, be level headed,
don’t let your emotions get the best of you.
Think about every decision you make on the
course of life. Forget about all of your bad
shots, your mistakes, just block them out.
Celebrate you victories, your good shots, your
triumphs over the hazards of life. When you
have finished playing your final hole, look
back with joy knowing you did your best.
Having a cold one can only help wash away
the bad and help you recall all the good. Sam,
See Huber’s Hiccups, page 5
Entertainment
Do You Know Fred Hampton’s Story? Daniel
Kaluuya’s Portrayal in ‘Judas and the Black
Messiah’ Will Make Sure You Never Forget
By Ryan Rojas for cinemacy.com
If you, like me, were previously unaware
of activist Fred Hampton’s story, writer and
director Shaka King looks to educate audiences
with his biopic Judas and the Black Messiah
(now streaming on HBO Max). King brings
Hampton’s story to the big screen by telling
the real-life events of how an FBI informant
infiltrated Hampton’s Black Panther Party,
became the chairman’s confidante, and ultimately
aided in his politically-motivated death.
To tell this story, Judas and the Black Messiah
needs to start by telling the story of Bill O’Neal
(LaKeith Stanfield), a young troublemaker
who, after a run-in with the law, is hired by an
FBI officer (Jesse Plemons) to infiltrate Fred
Hampton’s (Daniel Kaluuya) inner circle within
the Black Panther Party for the government’s
tracking. Taken in by the promise of expunging
his record (and eyeing the opportunity to
attain a lavish lifestyle), Bill starts attending
meetings in which Hampton–or “Chairman,”
as his followers reverentially call him–inspired
the masses through urgent, commanding visions
and plans of growing Black Power messages
in a post-MLK and Malcolm X world.
Daniel Kaluuya gives so much to embody
the Chairman, bringing primal urgency in his
wall-shaking speeches as well as quiet reflection
in more intimate moments. It’s clear that
while Judas and the Black Messiah is driven
by the central story of a rat in the henhouse,
Shaka King naturally veers from this plot to
Film Review
Judas and the Black Messiah, courtesy HBO Max.
Ryan Rojas.
See Film Review, page 7