ALL HANDS ON DECK

Rick's Hand on Deck, 12/2008 from the series CRUISE

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Spending 14 days on a ship , seeing the same people everyday , you are bound to meet interesting people? Rick McKay was one of those people. 

I would wake up for coffee early every morning and I kept running into Rick. Rick is an award winning documentary filmmaker, having specialized in interviewing Broadway stars and thus preserving theatre history. I didn't think I had much interest in theatre but I kept recalling different theatre people I had known, met or dined with over the years - Andrew DeSheilds, Patti Lapone and Bryan Batt came up.

One morning , in conversation and animation , Rick was good at both, I made a picture of his hand. Later , Rick told me he had been a hand model!

All hands on deck.