My other NYC sitcom favorites were “The Odd Couple” where a fabulous upper West apartment across from the famed Central Park was featured, and “Barney Miller” where I learned about the city’s Bellevue Hospital, home of the undocumented, uninsured and certifiable. I reposted the story and received so many positive responses. Gene Anthony Ray was born on May 24 1962 in Harlem and grew up street dancing. Surely, someone in my circle of art directors, writers, photographers, editors and graphic artists had to have made his acquaintance, damn it!
Life could not have been sweeter! Attended Julia Richmond High School, where he performed in a dance class, and later auditioned for Louis Falco, the choreographer for the film, Fame (1980). Reports also abounded in the early Nineties that Ray was sleeping rough on park benches and in 1995 there were rumours, backed by Fame's writer David De Silva no less, that he had died from an HIV-related illness. Gene Anthony passed away on November 14, 2003, at age 41 from stroke complications. Online obituary for Anthony Ray. A friend knew of an available job as a photo art coordinator at ESSENCE Magazine that was based right in midtown Manhattan.
I did not want to believe that my husband-to-be was not interested in women!
Ancestry DNA testing: Should the buyer beware? A few weeks ago, I saw a Facebook post celebrating the 38th anniversary of the movie Fame.
I also later found out that the actor’s life had been fraught with turmoil.
When Gene Anthony died, I remember feeling so hurt by the loss of such a talented soul, and his death also triggered memories of my youth and total naivety. So my next conquest would be to find my future husband, Gene Anthony Ray!
I wondered what was so funny about my quest in finding my soulmate. Gene Anthony Ray in his later years. Playing Leroy, Ray was one of the few actors to star in both the film and the TV series and it was largely due to his presence that both were an instant hit. Gene Anthony Ray, actor and dancer: born New York 24 May 1962; died New York 14 November 2003. Well, my co-worker, who laughingly referred to me as ‘colored’ and ‘country’ did not understand the impact that his news had on me. Underneath the frothy veneer, The Kids From Fame was a series ahead of its time, bringing together a cast from a range of ethnic groups and dealing with hard-hitting subjects such as drug addiction, eating disorders and sexual abuse. All Rights Reserved, 50BOLD’s honorary Black person: Jane Fonda. Sadly, in 1996 he was diagnosed as being HIV positive.
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Well, I had to brace myself on a desk after hearing the news. I also learned how detectives were addicted to bad coffee, donuts, and bagels. Apparently, I was not the only one who adored Gene Anthony Ray who co-starred in both the Fame film and TV show. Ray's post-Fame credits include the role of Man Friday in the TV mini-series Shipwreck alongside Michael York, a brief appearance in Out of Sync (a 1995 film co- produced by the former Fame star Debbie Allen) and a cameo in the 1996 Whoopi Goldberg vehicle Eddie. Sadly, in 1996 he was diagnosed as being HIV positive.
In later interviews, Ray admitted to having an alcohol addiction but staunchly denied that he was suffering from Aids. Anthony Ray Guest Book | View 2 of 31 Entries: "I worked with or close to Gene Ray, the photograper, for almost all of my life. I was floating on cloud nine with a posh job and even managed to secure an apartment in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. Read Anthony Ray’s life story, offer tributes/condolences, send flowers or create a Anthony Ray online memorial. I had an intense love affair with an exciting city and an actor whom I had planned on pursuing with steadfast conviction.
On a BBC documentary Fame: Remember My Name earlier this year, in which the former stars of the series were reunited, Ray was among those recalling the copious drinking and drug-taking that took place in between shoots. Yep, life was good. The television series The Kids From Fame was the early-Eighties answer to Pop Idol, a tears-and-tantrums drama where students lived out their dreams, ruthlessly competed against one another and grappled with their fears of failure. There was one main character who stood out above all of the other actors and his name was Gene Anthony Ray. With the success of the show, the cast became celebrities, a situation to which many of them found it hard to adjust.
It was mesmerizing, the dancing, the songs, the fashions, my simple midwestern mindset went on NYC overload! The film, which won an Oscar for Best Original Score and managed to convince a whole generation of the sartorial merits of legwarmers, led to the highly successful spin-off series on NBC which topped the ratings in the mid-Eighties.
Here is Gene Anthony Ray’s Red Light audition video: […] There were even doctors who refused to treat patients with HIV despite their oath.
Gene Anthony Ray will forever be remembered as the person who gave me the nudge I needed to come to NYC, and for this, my–maybe-coulda-been-husband will always have a special place in my heart. The movies that were filmed in NYC particularly piqued my interest–the congested streets, bumper-to-bumper traffic, cultural diversity. He was 41. The series was aired for five years, between 1982 and 1987, during which time Ray's character, an illiterate but streetwise black kid from the wrong side of the tracks, faced his demons and honed his performing talents. Born in 1962, Gene Anthony Ray was brought up in Harlem, New York. I looked at my co-worker, who was admittedly a gay man and half-heartedly listened to how he had actually met Gene Anthony. Gene Anthony’s last video project was an April 2003 one-hour BBC Fame reunion documentary titled Fame Remember My Name. I will always remember Gene Anthony dancing so effortlessly and with such raw sexuality as he flexed his perfectly toned muscular and sweaty frame. Gene Anthony Ray, who starred as Leroy, a street-smart urban teenager, in the 1980 movie ''Fame'' and the later television series, died on Friday in Manhattan.
I grew up knowing that someday I’d actually venture out to follow my dream of living in the Big Apple and suddenly in May 1980, the film Fame hit theaters. Despite having had no formal training, he dazzled the choreographer Louis Falco with his smooth moves and beat 2,800 other hopefuls to the part of Leroy. One of my favorite films was “Barefoot in the Park” where I became enamored with fifth-floor walk-ups and cracked skylights. I remember the opening of the film when he stole a friend’s dance moves for an audition with New York’s High School of Performing Arts. Over the years he made several attempts to re-start his career - in the late Eighties he moved to Milan to found a Fame-type dancing school - but each of them failed.
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