Like Rebecca, you too can be a temporary Walker!
Wish you could hang around the Brothers & Sisters set? Have lunch with Uncle Saul? Maybe grab a passing writer and slap some sense into him or her?
Can’t promise that last part, but Margie from Watching Battlestar Galactica wrote to let me know that CharityFolks.com is auctioning off a day on the B&S set, complete with a midday meal with Ron Rifkin. They did the same thing about a year-and-a-half ago; apparently Rifkin’s the only guy on the set who’s willing to lunch with nobodies.
Once again, the auction proceeds go to DreamYard & Urban Ecology Institute; once again, there are a crazy lot of rules pretty much limiting any likelihood that you’ll see anything juicy; and once again, they are using the same old old show logo, the one above, which has not been correct since they scrapped the first pilot. Does this set visit take place in a time warp, or what. Say hi to Betty Buckley!
The other thing that cracked me up about the auction page is this run-down of Rifkin’s resume: “Ron Rifkin is an actor and director who is featured in numerous television shows. Perhaps best know for the role of Arvin Sloane in Alias, opposite Jennifer Garner, Mr. Rifkin currently plays second-in-command businessman Saul Holden on Brothers & Sisters, opposite Sally Field. He also played Bonnie Franklin’s second boyfriend on One Day at a Time.” I mean, this guy’s got nearly 100 credits on his IMDb profile, not to mention a distinguished Broadway career, and the best they can do is “Bonnie Franklin’s second boyfriend”?
(Not surprisingly, this bio is lifted fairly directly from the actor’s Wikipedia entry, which must have been written by a One Day at a Time fan.)
Still, all kidding aside, it would be pretty cool to get a set visit, and surely someone among my readers has $2,000 burning a hole in his or her pocket to make it happen. Go, get Ron Rifkin to share his favorite credits over lunch, and report back!
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