The Knack - Alfre Woodard 6.24.’26 6.54 PM
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The Knack - Alfre Woodard 6.24.’26 6.54 PM
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Story first published and recorded Dec 10, 2023.
Photo: Michelle Uthoff-Campbell
Wikipedia Usage: CC BY-SA 2.0
Hello, I'm Gail Nobles. You're listening to the NACK Podcast, a digital Journal magazine. Back in 1989, an exciting telefilm came on television titled A Mother's Courage: The Mary Thomas Story. It was a two part episode. The movie was about the mother of basketball star Isiah Thomas.
Alfred Woodard played as Mary Thomas. The right actress was picked to play as Mary Thomas. Alfred Woodard was able to act out just how strong Mary Thomas was in raising her children. She fought to keep her family together and her sons out of trouble though they lived around poverty, drugs, and crime.
Mary stood up to a gang leader played by Harry Lenox at a school dance. I could feel Alfre Woodard’s acting. Getting lost in the film, it seemed like Alfre was actually Mary Thomas. She made you forget that she was not Mary Thomas as you got lost in the story of the film. Mary Thomas used a shotgun to keep gang members away from her family. In the movie, she pointed a gun at the gang leader and said: Ain’t but one gang in this family and that’s the Thomas Gang.
Michael Thomas was played by Leon from the Five Hearbearts. Garland Spenser played Isiah Thomas in middle school. Larry O. Williams Jr. played Isiah Thomas in high school. It was an awesome story and film. Films based on true stories, if made right, are the best. And if it’s a telefilm, it makes me watch television even more.
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