Author: ruhlwrite

Someone slipped a sheet of paper into my mailbox. It looked like junk, and, in my haste, I almost threw it out. In the spring of 2008, Tony Scott was filming , a remake of the 1974 classic, and he was looking for a house, it could be my house, for the hero, Denzel Washington. Tony, Englishman eccentric, charming and chatty, took a tour and declared that this was indeed a desirable dwelling for Denzel. The key “bring-home-the-milk” scene, as he called it, was to be of Denzel’s wife…

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David Ellis can’t stop the clowning around. His 4-year-old daughter, the so-called Lady S, is looking down on him, longingly, from the second-floor bedroom window. David, serious for a second. She’s dying to be outside with him, but she’s suffering from the sniffles, so he’s making funny faces to make up for her sequestration. He sticks out his tongue, flies his fingers from his nose like a bird and bulges his big brown eyes until they nearly pop through his wire-rim glasses. Her…

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Look into my eyes. Craig Mackay, a hypnotist, has brilliant, beautiful blue ones, but you’ll never hear him utter this command. Instead, he asks you to sit on the striped sofa in his blue-walled office for a gentle conversation about your goals. Craig is from Scotland. Do you want to lose weight? Are you here to quit smoking? Are you afraid to go to the dentist? Do you desire to boost your confidence? Are you trying to reduce stress? Now that Craig knows the why, he can help you with the…

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Sometimes it takes a long time to figure out who you are and who you want to be. Juniper started drawing as a child. For Juniper Foster, this is a very welcome work in progress. To see where she’s been and where she’s going, all she has to do is study her paintings. Juniper’s living room serves as her studio. This is something she gets to do a lot because she paints in the cramped living room of her one-bedroom apartment. Her abstract canvases, emotive, spur-of-the-moment riots…

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Actors make their living manufacturing emotions at a moment’s notice. Happy. Sad. Surprised. Toney started acting in elementary school. Toney Brown does them all flawlessly, but there’s one he doesn’t have to fake: wide-eyed enthusiasm. Toney, who will go by the stage name of Anthony Joel Brown when he gets his first professional acting or directing credit, is fresher than newly baked bread, and his arrival in Astoria puts a whole new “new” take on New York City. He…

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