Actor John Leguizamo, Françoise (known as Bunny) and her husband Rafael Ferrer, and Eric Brown.
Mr. Ferrer was profiled in The New York Times on December 16, 2011 by Karin Lipson. This is an excerpt from Ms. Lipson's article:
Born in 1933 in San Juan, P.R., to a well-to-do family, Mr. Ferrer was sent to the mainland for his education. The summer after his freshman year at Syracuse University, he stayed with his half-brother, the actor José Ferrer — more than 20 years his senior — and José Ferrer's wife Rosemary Clooney in Hollywood.
"I used to drive Rosemary to the studio, where she was making 'White Christmas.' And Joe was filming 'The Caine Mutiny,'" Mr. Ferrer recalled. "And one day he said to me, 'You know, fame — it's an empty shell; there's nothing to it.'"
Not that Mr. Ferrer was interested in acting. Music, specifically Afro-Cuban percussion, had fascinated him since he began playing the drums while attending a military academy in Virginia. As an adult, Mr. Ferrer was a professional drummer before turning full time to art. |
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