Step into Ron Silver’s dressing room backstage at the Hollywood Playhouse. There’s a black binder lying open on the dressing table; it’s packed with clippings on health care. A baseball hat with Chinese lettering rests alongside a book–”Politics Among Nations: The Struggle for Power and Peace”–and nearby is a pamphlet called “Curing U.S. Health...
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Ron Silver on the Price of Activism
Activist Ron Silver
I am terribly saddened to report that the great actor and political activist, Ron Silver, died this morning at his home in New York. Ron was 62 and had been bravely battling esophageal cancer for the last two years. He leaves two children, Adam and Alexandra, his parents and his two brothers, as well...
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Ron Silver Actor
As actors go, Ron Silver, who died Sunday at age 62, was a real winner. In 1988, he took both the Tony and Drama Desk awards as lead actor in a play for portraying a combative wannabe film producer named Charlie Fox in David Mamet’s “Speed-the-Plow” on Broadway. For the Tony, Ron Silver beat...
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