And Gerussi? “Bruno Gerussi was a serious man. A serious actor who had a distinguished career doing Shakespeare,” he says. “He was blunt, too. My mother told me that her dad, my grandfather, had known Gerussi. Eventually, I asked him about that. Boy, was he blunt. What he said, I couldn’t even tell my mother.”...
Saturday, January 15, 2011
Hart Hanson’s journey from ‘Beachcombers’ to ‘Bones’
Hart Hanson has a few things to say about The Beachcombers and Bruno Gerussi. Nothing lurid, mind you. “Thinking back, I can’t believe how lucky I was to write some episodes of The Beachcombers. There isn’t a person in Canada who doesn’t know that show, respond to the theme music.”
And Gerussi? “Bruno Gerussi was a serious man. A serious actor who had a distinguished career doing Shakespeare,” he says. “He was blunt, too. My mother told me that her dad, my grandfather, had known Gerussi. Eventually, I asked him about that. Boy, was he blunt. What he said, I couldn’t even tell my mother.”...
And Gerussi? “Bruno Gerussi was a serious man. A serious actor who had a distinguished career doing Shakespeare,” he says. “He was blunt, too. My mother told me that her dad, my grandfather, had known Gerussi. Eventually, I asked him about that. Boy, was he blunt. What he said, I couldn’t even tell my mother.”...
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