MY LIFE IN PHOTOS - NEW YORK AND JOSH
Blanche pregnant with Joshua, 1971.
B&B and Josh in utero.
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Joshua just born. We are in our new apartment on Greenwich Street and 12th in the West Village. March of 1972.
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Joshua nursing. Incredibly proud parents watching.
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Blanche nursing in the background. Me joyous in the foreground. Our Greenwich Street apartment. We could see the World Trade Center being built looking out the far window. Rudi found us this apartment in an artist’s co-op and helped us buy it. It was amazing that we could have a West Village loft that we could afford. It’s hard to explain all the gifts that Rudi provided for his students.
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A first family photo on Greenwich Street. Blanche and I used many of the skills we learned helping Rudi renovate his new 10th Street house in building our own loft. It was a stunning expansive space. We built the kitchen, a sunken bed, a pull out bed, Japanese sliding panels and a wall of bookshelves. We did it all.
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A second family photo. Josh is just starting to get used to us.
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Proud father and son.
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Even prouder father and son.
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As close as I could get to nursing.
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The amazement of holding my son.
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Joshua’s first Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade.
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Joshua standing, almost walking. He was an independent spirit from day one.
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More Thanksgiving.
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... and more.
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Me and Josh walking in Abingdon Square Park just a block from our apartment on Greenwich St. Joshua used to find broken liquor bottles in the sand box. It was one of the reasons we used when we decided a year later to leave NY and move to Bloomington, Indiana.
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Josh and his dad in our Greenwich Street apartment. This is where I wrote the script THE GEORGE DUNLAP TAPE which later became my first produced screenplay BRAINSTORM. I wrote one scene a night while Blanche put Josh to bed. It was hard for me to sacrifice that time with him but I was determined to make movies and this was the only hope I had of getting to Hollywood.
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Me and Josh somewhere in NYC. I could not believe I had such an amazing child or that I had a child at all. He was the fulfillment of powerful dreams.
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Blanche and Josh in our apartment.
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Bearded Bruce and Josh celebrating Joshua’s 1st Birthday on Greenwich Ave. Just a month before Rudi died in a private plane crash. Two weeks later I celebrated my 30th birthday. Less than a year later we left New York.
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Bruce and Josh posing together.
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Josh beaming.
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Josh and his grandma Fann at his 1st Birthday party.
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Friends and family gathering at Josh’s first birthday party.
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More friends and family at Josh’s party.
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Josh, age 2, in Rudi’s apartment just before our move to Indiana.
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