On Saturday, July 21, @blogwillhunting and twitter users all over Boston (and the world?) started watching Good Will Hunting at the same time and live tweeted the film. Here’s our complete recap:
On Saturday, July 21, @blogwillhunting and twitter users all over Boston (and the world?) started watching Good Will Hunting at the same time and live tweeted the film. Here’s our complete recap:

Local news network NECN is exploring the sites of iconic Boston movie scenes, and headed to the L Street Tavern this week. It’s pretty charming to hear from the perspective of the bar’s owner. She fondly recalls shutting down the street for a black tie Oscars party the night Good Will Hunting contended, refers to the movie as “we,” and remembers Robin Williams famously saluting the people of South Boston (“you’re a can of corn!”) in his Oscar speech.
What a hard week it has been in Boston.
Maybe I keep watching that video, thinking about how I grew to love baseball and the Red Sox alongside Kevin Youkilis’s nine-year career here. Maybe I’ve been thinking about my first ever Red Sox game—the week Youk was called up from the minors for the first time—and how I picked him, the scrappy rookie, to be my favorite. Yes, he was my favorite guy.
As I deal with my grief, I just want to say:

Let us grieve:




