David Bruce

Movies, Radio, and Television: 250 Anecdotes (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

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A Sample: Tom Baker was the actor who played the Doctor Who with the absurdly long scarf the result of a woman who was given lots of wool to knit and who was so excited to be working on Doctor Who's costume that she did not stop knitting until she ran out of wool. The budget for Doctor Who was small, with the result that sometimes scenes had to be filmed again because the scenery shook. Mr. Baker said in a Guardian (UK) interview, "As an actor, walking through a door naturally is an art, and someone once told me that they'd never seen anyone do it as well as me. I didn't like to say that it was because the BBC sets shook, and the doors had to be closed gently." In one Doctor Who adventure, "The Deadly Assassin," the good doctor nearly drowned. This was an episode that Mr. Baker really wanted to see when it was broadcast no video or DVD recorders existed back then. He remembers, "I was on a signing tour of the country at the time, and I knocked on the door of a house in Preston, just as a father was settling down to watch it with his two five-year-old sons. He said nothing and just beckoned me inside. I crept into the room and sat quietly in a chair and, as my face came up on screen, you could see the stupefaction on the kids' faces as they noticed me. How could one person be in two places at once? It was just ecstasy. But the whole process of making Doctor Who was a joy."

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: David Bruce
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Dezember 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798230528395
• Artikelnr.: 73146794

Autorenporträt

It was a dark and stormy night. Suddenly a cry rang out, and on a hot summer night in 1954, Josephine, wife of Carl Bruce, gave birth to a boy me. Unfortunately, this young married couple allowed Reuben Saturday, Josephine's brother, to name their first-born. Reuben, aka "The Joker," decided that Bruce was a nice name, so he decided to name me Bruce Bruce. I have gone by my middle name David ever since.

Being named Bruce David Bruce hasn't been all bad. Bank tellers remember me very quickly, so I don't often have to show an ID. It can be fun in charades, also. When I was a counselor as a teenager at Camp Echoing Hills in Warsaw, Ohio, a fellow counselor gave the signs for "sounds like" and "two words," then she pointed to a bruise on her leg twice. Bruise Bruise?

Oh yeah, Bruce Bruce is the answer!

Uncle Reuben, by the way, gave me a haircut when I was in kindergarten. He cut my hair short and shaved a small bald spot on the back of my head. My mother wouldn't let me go to school until the bald spot grew out again.

Of all my brothers and sisters (six in all), I am the only transplant to Athens, Ohio. I was born in Newark, Ohio, and have lived all around Southeastern Ohio. However, I moved to Athens to go to Ohio University and have never left.

At Ohio U, I never could make up my mind whether to major in English or Philosophy, so I got a bachelor's degree with a double major in both areas, then I added a Master of Arts degree in English and a Master of Arts degree in Philosophy. Yes, I have my MAMA degree.

Currently, and for a long time to come (I eat fruits and veggies), I am spending my retirement writing books such as Nadia Comaneci: Perfect 10, The Funniest People in Comedy, Homer's Iliad: A Retelling in Prose, and William Shakespeare's Hamlet: A Retelling in Prose.

If all goes well, I will publish one or two books a year for the rest of my life. (On the other hand, a good way to make God laugh is to tell Her your plans.)

By the way, my sister Brenda Kennedy writes romances such as A New Beginning and Shattered Dreams.