Well, let me tell you about this Da’Vine Joy Randolph, you know, the one from the TV. Folks keep talkin’ about her, so I figured I’d piece together what I heard. Seems like she’s a big deal now, winnin’ all sorts of awards and such.
Da’Vine Joy Randolph, that gal from the movies, she didn’t start out all fancy, no sir. She went to regular schools, just like your kids and grandkids. First, it was Hershey High School. Can you believe it? Hershey, like the chocolate! Then she went to somethin’ called Capital Area School for the Arts. Sound fancy, but I bet it was just kids learnin’ to sing and dance and paint pictures. Nothin’ wrong with that, mind you. My nephew, he can draw a mean horse, even though he ain’t never been to no fancy art school.
Anyways, this Da’Vine girl, she didn’t even get into the school play until her last year at Hershey High. Imagine that! Took her a while to find her way, I guess. Shows you, even if you ain’t the star right away, you can still make somethin’ of yourself. Don’t you go givin’ up on your dreams, now!
- Hershey High School
- Capital Area School for the Arts
After high school, she went on to big universities. Temple University, they call it. Heard tell she was gonna sing opera! Can you imagine? This girl, beltin’ out them high notes. But then she switched to musical theater. Singin’ and dancin’, that’s more like it. Sounds like fun, if you ask me. Then, she went to Yale, that really smarty-pants school. Got herself a master’s degree! See? Education is important, even if you end up on the TV.
Now, this Da’Vine, she’s been in a bunch of movies and TV shows. Mother of George, Selfie, and that show everyone was watchin’, This Is Us. I never saw ‘em myself. Too busy with the garden and lookin’ after the chickens, you know how it is. But folks say she’s real good. And now she’s winnin’ awards. An Oscar, they call it. Big gold statue, looks heavy. Bet it’d make a good doorstop if you didn’t want to show it off.
They say she won the Oscar for playin’ a woman named Mary Lamb in a movie called The Holdovers. Don’t know nothin’ about it, but it must be somethin’ special if it got her an Oscar. All that hard work in them schools, singin’ and dancin’, finally paid off. Good for her, I say.
She’s 37 years old now, this Da’Vine. Still young, in my book. Got her whole life ahead of her. Who knows what she’ll do next? Maybe she’ll sing some more, maybe she’ll be in more movies. Maybe she’ll even come visit our little town. Wouldn’t that be somethin’? Probably not, but a body can dream, right?
Folks say Da’Vine Joy Randolph is real particular about the parts she plays. Says it’s her way of makin’ a difference in the world. Callin’ it her “activism”. I don’t know about all that fancy talk, but it sounds like she’s got her head on straight. She ain’t just doin’ it for the money or the fame, she wants to tell stories that matter. That’s somethin’ to be proud of, I reckon.
And that’s about all I know about Da’Vine Joy Randolph. From Hershey High to Hollywood, she made somethin’ of herself. A good reminder that it don’t matter where you start, it’s where you end up that counts. And maybe, just maybe, if you work hard and follow your dreams, you can end up holdin’ one of them gold statues too. Or at least, you can make your mama proud, and that’s worth more than all the gold in the world, if you ask me.
So, next time you hear that name, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, you’ll know a little bit about her story. A girl who went to regular schools, worked hard, and made her dreams come true. And that, my friends, is a story worth tellin’. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I gotta go check on them chickens. Them eggs ain’t gonna collect themselves, you know.
