He had a knack for pairing musicians, comedians and actors because everybody wanted to hang out with Bob. I think I’ve been to almost every one of the events over the years because it’s fun but also because it’s Bob.
He really made it into what it is today, raising so much money and awareness. I was on the board for maybe 15 years and Bob eventually started running the Cool Comedy, Hot Cuisine event. Not long after that, both Bob and I joined the board of the Scleroderma Research Foundation. He couldn’t help himself, and he was so good at it. He was pretty much a control freak, but it was always done with enthusiasm. He did everything from top to bottom - writing, directing, editing, music, publicity. He loved directing and I wish he had done more of it. It was a joyous, joyous film shoot, and everybody remained very close from it.īob was in his element. We would ride up to the edge of melodrama and then there would be some joke to break the tension. I find that combination makes for great filmmaking. He had such a fine sense of balance between comedy and tragedy and his whole life was like that because he lost so many people in his family early on. See? I am still talking about him in the present tense. Maybe because he’s an actor, he understands material from an actress’ point of view. He’s actually one of my favorite directors I’ve ever worked with. He was so talented and he won an Oscar,, when he was in college. I showed up four hours early every day to get it done, and we weren’t as advanced back then and there was no CGI, so if you watch the movie, you might see little cracks here and there.īut Bob was a fantastic director and I feel like not a lot of people know that. We went to Tom and Bari Burman, preeminent prosthetic makeup artists, to create the look. We had to do extensive prosthetic makeup because Gay had the systemic type of scleroderma that really shows on the face. There was a wonderful young actor playing Adam, her son, who is a real estate agent now in L.A. We shot in Vancouver because it was cheaper, and I was basically playing a version of Bob’s sister, Gay. Bob said, “I really would love it if you could do this.” I said, “Oh for Sharon, I will do anything.” So, Bob wrote For Hope with Susan Rice, who is still a good friend, and he also directed it. But Bob and Brad Grey, who used to manage both of us, called me one day.
At the time, there was a big stigma against disease-of-the-week movies and you really didn’t want to be in one.
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Bob and I share the same dark sense of humor and we used to joke, “Don’t go to the benefit because you’ll get scleroderma.”Īfter Gay died from scleroderma, Bob came up with an idea to make a television movie about her. A year later, she was diagnosed with scleroderma, which was bizarre. You may have heard this story by now but Bob was asked to host it and - since he was close with his family - his parents and his sister, Gay, went to the event. We just kept going to the events because Sharon was so magnetic and such a powerful human being and the events were a perfect combination of food, fun and a good cause for a remarkable person. It was 1989 and I remember Rosie O’Donnell was one of the comedians who performed. Neither of us knew anything about scleroderma, we just went because chef Susan Feniger invited us and we liked her food. Not long after Sharon Monsky started the Scleroderma Research Foundation, Bob and I went to the second event they had. Judge Temporarily Blocks Release of Records Related to Bob Saget's Death