wheelchairs Re: Sleepy Hollow

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> From: Matt Bear-Fowler <wakingdreaming@gmail.com>


>I want to like Ironside, but as a person with a physical disability, I'm pretty annoyed that they didn't get an actor with a physical disability to play the title role. We're out there. There are plenty of people who could do it well. I haven't actually sen the show yet, and I do plan to check it out. I'm eager to see how accurately living as a mobility impaired person is portrayed. I'm willing to give them at least a little slack, since I'm kind of pleased to see a mobility impaired character on television at all. But I'm going to be scrutinizing it fairly closely.

Matt, you might like what New Tricks, a BBC show, did this year.

It's a police show where three older, male, retired detectives were brought back to work cold cases, supervised by a female Detective Superintendent. There have been some changes recently. Two of the original older detectives have left the show, as has the actress playing the Det. Supt. (Hey, the show's been on since 2003.)

Anyway, they've brought in a new female supervisor and two new older cops. One of the new cops has  daughter: she's a student, she's brilliant (often helps him with ideas for the investigations) -- and she's in a wheelchair.  In real life, the actress, Storme Toolis, truly is in a wheelchair. She has cerebral palsy.   http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/new-tricks-storme-toolis-what-2233214

Ellen

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