Celebrity Biographies
Richard Glatzer
Richard Glatzer’s latest film deals with a disease, Alzheimer’s disease. And he himself has succumbed to another, ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), the same one that Stephen Hawking suffers from. The co-director of “Always Alice” passed away on March 10 at the age of 62. Curiously, both Alzheimer’s and ALS were remembered with statuettes at the last edition of the Oscars, for Glatzer’s film, which won Julianne Moore a prize, and for Eddie Redmayne’s composition of the famous astrophysicist in “The Theory of Everything.” .
The work of Richard Glatzer, born in Queens, New York, on January 28, 1952, and who studied English philology at the University of Virginia, taught scriptwriting at the School of Visual Arts in New York, and he was very proud to have been friends with the legendary Frank Capra .
He has 5 tapes as director, the first from 1993, a comedy, with the paradoxical title of Grief , pain, which passed without pain or glory. The filmmaker didn’t really appear on the world film map until he shot Quinceañera with Wash Westmoreland . , his gay partner, with whom he had previously made the little-known The Fluffer .
In 2006, the look at the Hispanic world, and specifically at the typical celebration of an adolescent, in this case pregnant, who celebrates a kind of entry into the adult world when she turns 15, was one of the favorites of “indie” cinema and was awarded at Sundance. From this moment Glatzer and Westmoreland will also form a film couple, they will direct their films together. In addition, in 2013 they had married, taking advantage of the new legislation on homosexual marriage.
Although Errol Flynn ‘s cinema is exciting, and his private life was quite hectic, the actor’s biopic The Last Adventure of Robin Hood , which focuses on his final love affair with a minor, lacks a bit of punch. However, it must be recognized that, thanks to the prodigious and Oscar-winning performance of Julianne Moore , her film Siempre Alice has remained an obligatory reference when thinking about a film that realistically depicts how Alzheimer’s evolves in a middle-aged person.
On the occasion of his Oscar, Moore fondly mentioned Glatzer, who was absent from the gala due to his advanced illness. Westmoreland has issued a heartfelt statement stating that he is “destroyed” by the death. “Rich was my soul mate, my collaborator, my best friend and my life. Seeing him battle ALS for four years with such grace and courage inspired me and everyone who knew him,” he says.