Small Screen Scenes: OSCAR®-NOMINATED DOCUMENTARY MONDAYS AT RACINE, VISITING A LONG ISLAND BEAUTY SALON WHERE TWO SISTERS EMPOWER WOMEN WITH CANCER, DEBUTS OCTOBER 14, 2013 DURING BREAST CANCER AWARENESS MONTH, EXCLUSIVELY ON HBO Our Coverage Sponsored by Stribling and Associates
Mondays at racine: (L-R) Brian Span & Maureen Span
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MONDAYS AT RACINE: (L-R) Cambria Russell & Tim Russell
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Appropriately by Bad Hair Day Films, Oscar-Nominated Documentary Mondays at Racine debuts tonight on HBO highlighting the amazingly generous idea of sisters Cynthia and Rachel, who own a beauty salon on Long Island that they open one day a month, a Monday, free of charge to those battling breast cancer. Their mother suffered from cancer in the 1980's. On Whom You Know, we cannot mention this disease without thinking of our friend the late Mover and Shaker Evelyn Lauder, who was co-creator of the pink ribbon. Though it is fantastic to wear pink and do everything you can to mitigate this horrible disease, when someone takes real self-sacrificing action like these sisters do we find it highly commendable. And we're not surprised at all to know that you'll find this quality documentary on HBO.
MONDAYS AT RACINE: (L-R) Cynthia Sansone, Rachel DeMolfetto, Linda Hart
Photo Credit: Maria Pusateri / Courtesy of HBO
True bravery and humanity shines through in this moving show. We'll warn you, it is highly emotional. Do watch this with a box of Kleenex. Shaving hair off is the best choice for many who inevitably need to loose their hair to win their battle for health, and that can't be easy for anyone. Most women we know love their hair. It's part of your look. Eyelashes and Eyebrows diminish as well.
MONDAYS AT RACINE: (L-R) Linda Hart & Cambria Russell
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The best part of this documentary is the relationships these women form with each other in their monthly group meetings. Only they can answer questions that those in the group that are new will have, and the friendships are powerful. HBO looks at real life here and does not sugar-coat anything. The pure honesty is refreshing right down to conversations about sex, appearance and relationships with spouses, some of which work and some of which do not. Cancer is not at all convenient. It's got quite the domino effect as well in life.
MONDAYS AT RACINE: (L-R) Cynthia Sansone, Cynthia Wade & Rachel Demolfetto
Photo Credit: Heidi Gutman / Courtesy of HBO
When confronted with adversity, no matter what life throws at you it is undeniably best to make lemonade out of lemons, and that's what's being done here. Chemotherapy shown is most definitely lemons of the most sour variety, and women of different ages, backgrounds and races unite to squeeze the most they can out of life. Their journey will inspire you. The mentoring that takes place is the most touching of all, and the filmmaking was executed intelligently over a great span of time that marked turning points in these women's lives. It's going to put your own life in perspective.
MONDAYS AT RACINE: (L-R) Maureen Span, Rachel Demolfetto, Cambria Russell (seated) & Linda Hart
Photo Credit: Heidi Gutman / Courtesy of HBO
Highly skillful, tasteful and real execution is what's shown here with the most intelligent sensitivity by HBO.
MONDAYS AT RACINE is Highly Recommended by Whom You Know.
MONDAYS AT RACINE: (L-R) Cynthia Wade & Linda Hart
Photo Credit: Heidi Gutman / Courtesy of HBO
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Sisters Rachel Demolfetto and Cynthia Sansone watched their mother grow reclusive and depressed as she battled breast cancer in the 1980s. Today, inspired by her struggle, they open the doors of their Long Island beauty salon once a month to women diagnosed with cancer, helping them feel beautiful while they fight the illness. Presented during Breast Cancer Awareness Month, the uplifting documentary MONDAYS AT RACINE follows the sisters and several cancer patients as they navigate the emotional and physical changes of the disease when it debuts MONDAY, OCT. 14 (9:00-9:40 p.m. ET/PT), exclusively on HBO. Cynthia Wade (the Oscar®-winning CINEMAX documentary “Freeheld”) directs.
Other HBO playdates: Oct. 15 (5:15 a.m.), 18 (11:30 a.m.), 20 (1:30 p.m.), 21 (5:30 p.m.) and 26 (4:15 p.m.)
HBO2 playdates: Oct. 16 (8:00 p.m.), 19 (5:15 a.m.) and 24 (6:00 a.m.)
MONDAYS AT RACINE is one three nominees for this year’s Documentary Short Subject Oscar® debuting back-to-back Oct. 14 on HBO, along with “Redemption,” debuting at 9:40 p.m., and “Open Heart,” which debuts at 10:20 p.m. Other October presentations in the HBO Documentary Films fall series include “Valentine Road” (Oct. 7), “Life According to Sam” (Oct. 21) and “Seduced and Abandoned” (Oct. 28).
The toll chemotherapy takes on a woman is physically exhausting, and can also be devastating to her identity. Many wake up with clumps of hair on their pillow, and without hair, one woman states, “You feel like you’re being erased.” Rachel Demolfetto and Cynthia Sansone witnessed such dramatic changes in their mother’s appearance, as well as the waning of her sense of self.
MONDAYS AT RACINE spotlights an unusual salon that provides free beauty treatments – hair, makeup, manicures and pedicures – to cancer patients one Monday a month. The goal is to give them a sense of normalcy and support, and in doing so, combat the fear that accompanies the disease.
The documentary profiles several Racine’s regulars. Cambria, 36, has recently been diagnosed with an aggressive form of breast cancer, which shakes her young, growing family to its core. At the time of filming, Linda, 58, had been beating the odds for 17 years. Their friendship sustains Cambria through chemotherapy, a double mastectomy, radiation and the demands of being a mother.
Cancer robs many women of the ability to be the person they once were, but the sisters are determined to help, with a little bit of blush and a lot of handholding. As one woman says after a makeover, “I feel like me again.” Together, they redefine their understanding of beauty, as well as their roles as mothers, wives and women.
In addition to “Freeheld,” Cynthia Wade’s credits include HBO’s “Shelter Dogs” and CINEMAX’s “Grist for the Mill.”
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MONDAYS AT RACINE was directed and produced by Cynthia Wade; produced by Robin Honan; edited by David Teague; cinematography by Cynthia Wade and David Teague; music by Max Avery Lichtenstein. For HBO: supervising producer, Lisa Heller; coordinating producer, Greg Rhem; executive producer, Sheila Nevins.
MONDAYS AT RACINE: (L-R) Maureen Span, Cambria Russell & Cynthia Wade
Photo Credit: Heidi Gutman / Courtesy of HBO
