Bruce A. Goronsky–a noted agency producer and entrepreneur who founded editorial house Fleet Street Pictures, which enjoyed a seven-year run in the Bay Area–died on Monday, March 29, in San Francisco of cancer. He was 61.
Goronsky served as a producer at such ad shops as Foote, Cone & Belding, San Francisco, and Ogilvy & Mather, Los Angeles. At FCB his work on Levi’s and Clorox earned a pair of Clio Awards and a regional Emmy. A native of Seattle, he moved to San Francisco after college to pursue his career in advertising and broadcast production.
Goronsky’s personal interests included a love of senior Golden Retrievers and a particular joy in vintage car racing with his Shelby Mustangs. He is lovingly remembered by his many friends and colleagues, by his father and brother, Ade and Paul Goronsky of Seattle, by his wife of 25 years, Louise Ure, and by the children of his heart, Brian and Maya Washington of San Francisco. All who knew Bruce Goronsky will remember his laugh that entered the room before he did.
A memorial celebration in Goronsky’s honor will be held at the Firehouse at Fort Mason in San Francisco, from 3 to 7 p.m. on Thursday, April 8. RSVP and inquiries can be made to Anna Frost, an agency colleague of Goronsky over the years, at (415) 459-5901. Memorial contributions in Goronsky’s name may be sent to the San Francisco chapter of the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA at http://sfspca.org/) or San Francisco-based residential shelter and family services program charity Raphael House (http://www.raphaelhouse.org/).
Harris Dickinson Toys With Ambiguity In “Babygirl” While Keeping a Secret From Nicole Kidman
Harris Dickinson was nervous to approach Nicole Kidman.
This would not necessarily be notable under normal circumstances, but the English actor had already been cast to star opposite her in the erotic drama "Babygirl," as the intern who initiates an affair with Kidman's buttoned-up CEO. They'd had a zoom with the writer-director Halina Reijn, who was excited by their playful banter and sure that Dickinson would hold his own. And yet when he found himself at the same event as Kidman, shyness took over. He admitted as much to Margaret Qualley, who took things into her own hands and introduced them.
"She helped me break the ice a bit," Dickinson said in a recent interview.
On set would be an entirely different story. Dickinson might not be nearly as "puckishly audacious" as his character Samuel but in the making of "Babygirl," he, Kidman and Reijn had no choice but to dive fearlessly into this exploration of sexual power dynamics, going to intimate, awkward, exhilarating and meme-able places. It's made the film, in theaters Christmas Day, one of the year's must-sees.
"There was an unspoken thing that we adhered to," Dickinson said. "We weren't getting to know each other's personal lives. When we were working and we were the characters, we didn't veer away from the material. I never tried to attach all of the history of Nicole Kidman. Otherwise it probably would have been a bit of a mess."
His is a performance that reconfirms what many in the film world have suspected since his debut seven years ago as a Brooklyn tough questioning his sexuality in Eliza Hittman's "Beach Rats": Dickinson is one of the most exciting young talents around.
Dickinson, 28, grew up in Leytonstone, in East London — the same neck of the woods as... Read More