We're guessing that Ken Strunk doesn't sleep. Too busy.
Strunk, a local actor, just finished work on his fourth movie in 12 months.
The movie that just wrapped is Sympatico, the Sharon Stone, Jeff Bridges, Nick Nolte film shot in Lexington. Strunk plays a vet and has several scenes with the lead characters. It will be released in the spring.
In early October, he did An Invited Guest with Kim Fields (Facts of Life) in Columbus. No clue on a release date yet.
Last fall, he worked on a still-untitled Michael Mann (Last of the Mohicans) film with Al Pacino about tobacco whistle-blower Jeffrey Wigand; also scheduled for a spring release.
Also last fall: he worked on the HBO film Renegade Force. Shot in Cleveland, it should air this month.
He was cast in two other films this year but turned them down.
IN THE MAIL:
Merciful heavens, look who's on American Movie Classics. It's Bob the Mailman.
You remember Bob, a k a Bob Burke. Psst! wrote about him in 1995. He's the Clifton mailman who romances through the mail.
Like taking a dry cleaners' coat hanger (the kind with the paper over it), writing on it "I'd like to get clothes to you," slapping on a stamp and mailing it to his lady du jour. Or mailing a paper plate with a dinner invitation on it.
Because, Burke says, you don't have to send messages in envelopes. "Almost anything you can stamp, the post office will take." He has even sent fruit - a banana with messages written on the peel in magic marker.
Anyway, AMC got wind of this, shot footage and now is airing Romantic Tips from Bob the Mailman, an 8-minute short on romantic ways to use the mail. It's airing at random times this month (usually around some mushy movie or another).
Meanwhile, Burke and fellow carrier Dan Thomas, are very close to publishing A Mailman's Guide to Romantic Mail.
SHOW IT OFF: Funny lot, those collectors. Don't you think? Take baseball memorabilia collectors, for example.
Like Steve Walter of Montgomery's Sports Investments Inc. He bought an 1869 cigar cutter at a November auction to join his collection of Reds memorabilia. (He's not saying what he paid, but the auction house listed it at $17,942).
Then he bought a new house because he needed more room to display his stuff. Then he started getting calls from customers of his sports memorabilia store. Such as dentist Dr. John Gennantonio: "He said, 'Is it there? Can I see it? Can I hold it?' "
He wasn't alone. So many people called that he put the cutter on display in his store.
"As far as I know, there are only three other things surviving from that 1869 team," he says. "A baseball card, a song sheet and a Hall of Fame trophy."
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