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UPDATE: May 27, 2010: From the Reeve Foundation’s Daily Dose: Young wheelchair user cast in Paul Reiser sitcom You may recall the casting call that went out for a young boy who uses a wheelchair for a pilot TV show Paul Reiser was working on for NBC. It’s cast, and has been picked up for the fall season. Brock Waidmann (pictured here with Paul) will star as “Zeke.” The networks are in the middle of “Upfronts” right now, where they present shows to advertisers. The author had the urge to create, and a spinal cord injury was not going to get in her way. By Beth Livingston This list represents a selection of retreats and colonies around the US for artists and writers that welcome people with disabilities to apply. By Linda A Cronin: A Practical Life and September in the Rehab A studio complex in Vermont’s Green Mountains accommodates writers and artists with disabilities. By Linda A. Cronin A Boston institution, the artist Robert Guillemin talks about his mission to bring art to the streets. By Rebecca Kellogg AXIS Dance Company of Oakland, California, has a new YouTube channel where you can watch videos like this: | BOOK NOOK Wheeler-Dealer: The Rip-Roaring Adventures of My Uncle Gordon, a Quadriplegic in Hollywood. By Chip Jacobs. First Person Press, Los Angeles, 2006. 303 pp. ISBN 0-9761331-9-9. Reviewed by Andrea Dimech Dance New Amsterdam & Bill Shannon present an innovative dance workshop, TRANSLATIONS , evolving individualized disability based movement into a new dance lexicon.
“It was with anticipation mixed with dread that I began to watch Christopher Reeve’s retelling of the classic.” [...] FOR COMPLETE SCHEDULE, TICKETS & INFORMATION VISIT WWW.REELABILITIES.ORG The Second Annual Reelabilities: NY Disabilities Film Festival is dedicated to promoting awareness and appreciation of the lives, stories and artistic expressions of people with different abilities. The festival presents award winning films in various locations throughout the NY metropolitan area. Discussions and other engaging programs will bring together the community to explore, discuss and celebrate the diversity of our shared human experience. An acting troupe puts on major productions for actors with disabilities. By Danielle Shaw It’s a rainy Sunday afternoon, and the theater is packed. A young girl using a walker and dressed as Dorothy Gayle emerges through the curtains. She speaks to her dog Toto and then begins a serene “Over the Rainbow.” As she finishes singing, she is drowned out by the audience’s enthusiastic applause. Later the audience notices that the Tin Man and Scarecrow have visual impairments, and the Lion uses a wheelchair. In fact, all of the young actors seem to have some kind [...] Clay Cotton made his living at the piano from the 1960s to the 1990s. After contracting MS, he switched to mastering a whole other keyboard. by Rebecca Kellogg Clay Cotton was an in-demand piano man. At the height of his musical career, he played as a talented side man for musicians including Eric Clapton, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Jerry Garcia, and B.B. King. That all changed after he was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS). Eventually his hands could no longer play the notes that had earned him his livelihood and he was forced to find another line of work. He and his [...] Toby Forrest fronts hard-rocking band Cityzen in his wheelchair. By Rebecca Kellogg It is a chilly March night on Santa Monica Pier. Even in darkness, anglers huddle by baited lines at pier’s end. Beyond them the famous Pacific Wheel spins steadily, brightening the night with a light show visible for miles up the Pacific Coast Highway. Near the mouth of the pier, at Rusty’s restaurant, a battle of the bands is underway. The bar is full, and so are most of Rusty’s tables. Decked out with an ocean theme, Rusty’s sports surfboards on walls alongside surf movie posters. The tables are draped [...] FILM TALK | by Marjorie Cohen Warm Springs (2007). An HBO production. Directed by Joseph Sargent. With Kenneth Branagh, Cynthia Nixon, David Paymer, Kathy Bates, and Jane Alexander. Screenplay by Margaret Nagle. Warm Springs, a docudrama made for HBO, examines the qualities Franklin Delano Roosevelt acquired during his stay—rather, his journey—at Warm Springs, Georgia. It’s a journey that enabled him to become a president with the common touch, a true man of the people, and, perhaps, most important, a man of empathy. Of course being a dramatization, the film often plays fast and loose with the [...] Essayist Gary Presley has just published a memoir about (among other things) living with post-polio syndrome. By Rebecca Kellogg Gary Presley was 17 when he was diagnosed with polio after being inoculated with the Salk vaccine in 1959. Unaware of the future, he took the last steps of his life wearing his favorite cowboy boots. In the ensuing years, Presley faced his own limitations and the limitations of the way the world works. He has dealt with post- polio syndrome, worked in the insurance industry, and married. Mining his experiences for meaning, Presley has crafted rich essays and the [...] Over 1200 moviegoers attended the three-day RealAbilities New York Disabilities Film Festival. United Spinal was a supporting partner in this exciting [...] We received this request for help from veterans from a filmmaker at New York University: |
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