Birth nameAlan D. Ruck Birth information1 July 1956, Cleveland, Ohio, USA BioNo information available

10. Damone’s Five Point Plan The Movie: Fast Times At Ridgmont High (1982) The Moment: Why It’s Defining: It’s a cool kid giving advice to a geek. That’s an event that occurs in every single ‘80s teen movie ever, whether it’s Ferris Bueller (Matthew Broderick) getting Cameron (Alan Ruck) out of bed, or John Bender (Judd Nelson) bullying a bit of backbone into Brian Johnson (Anthony Michael Hall). We’ve gone for this particular example, because a) Debbie Harry’s involved... .
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The Screen Actors Guild stalemate grinds on. Variety says there are back-channel talks with studio heads, but it’s hard to know whether talks are actually in progress or, if any, how substantive they are. These rumors have persisted off and on for almost two months at least.
Causing the stalemate is the issue of contract expiration date rather than new media; there’s talk of a trade-off between this issue and the (unrelated) SAG demand for force majeure payments per the previous SAG agreement. Meanwhile, the passage of time itself threatens to generate new roadblocks.
The SAG Board is meeting this weekend, and Variety suggests a proposed TV/theatrical deal might be presented to the Board then. I’m skeptical, but you never know. The SAG story has had a surprise around every corner, although for the last year, stalemate has unfortunately been the one constant.
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The Group Theatre Too's recent production of David Rimmer's "Album" culminated with a star-studded opening and a "talk back" after the performance. Alan Ruck, who performed "Album" in Chicago, and Sam Robards who replaced the original Cherry Lane cast in 1981, joined David Rimmer, director Justin Boccitto and the cast of the 2009 revival at the Hudson Guild Theater as they answered questions and spoke about the history of "Album" over the last twenty five years.

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