“Rucker is a gifted observer-humorist, unleashing a straight-arrow honesty and a vibrant, penetrating wit while probing the most intimate aspects of contemporary life and human behavior…” (Publisher Weekly)
Mr. Rucker lectures widely on the subject of living with disability. He is also a contributing editor to “New Mobility” magazine and the chairman of the Writers With Disabilities Committee at the WGA. He lives in LA with wife, Ann. They have two sons.
The annual
Media Access Awards, held this year in front of an SRO crowd at the Beverly Hilton Hotel and hosted by
Marlee Matlin, is one of the few occasions when the Hollywood disability community gathers, hands out a few well-deserved awards, and celebrates its growing presence in film and TV. And its presence is growing. Despite what you might have read in the newspapers lately, there is solid progress to report.
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"I take some of the scariness out of the word, quadriplegic..."
- Jim Troesh 1956 -- 2011
Jim Troesh, a C-3/4 quadriplegic who worked as an actor and writer in the vineyards of Hollywood for 30-some years, died peacefully last Saturday night in Los Angeles.
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