‘Butterfly in the Sky’ review: LeVar Burton soars in ‘Reading Rainbow’ doc
by Ken Makin
May 23, 2024
3 minutes
“Butterfly In the Sky,” a documentary about the iconic “Reading Rainbow” TV series, opens with an elegance befitting that kaleidoscopic feat of nature.
LeVar Burton, the host of “Reading Rainbow,” and my friend and yours, is holding a copy of “Amazing Grace” by Mary Hoffman. It is fitting, as Burton sits majestically in the middle of a library, his graying goatee pristinely trimmed. He is a Black man, a fact that doesn’t go unnoticed or underappreciated during this roughly 90-minute blast from the past.
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