Anthony Bruce

Since 1988 his birth date is also known as World AIDS Day and he was born nine years to the day Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to relinquish her bus seat in Montgomery, Alabama (December 1, 1955).

Was abandoned by his biological mother and left to die in a trash bin in his hometown on a snowy December day, just before Christmas 1964. He was rescued and later adopted by a widowed woman and is now an advocate for adopted children everywhere.

Received personal writing advice from Sherwood Schwartz, creator and executive producer of The Brady Bunch (1969) and Gilligan's Island (1964).

He makes a point of including even the smallest reference to Saturday Night Fever (1977), his all-time favorite film, in every screenplay he writes.

At age 16 his very first TV commercial was a public service announcement for the Muscular Dystrophy Assocation with fellow Hoosier and actor Ken Kercheval, star of CBS' Dallas (1978).

He was the "Hush Puppy Dog" character for the local Hush Puppy Shoe Store in his hometown, as a summer job, in the early 1980s. He was amazed how the little kids would kick and punch him and that their parents would find it entertaining.

Born in Terre Haute, Indiana, Anthony Bruce began writing student articles for the Terre Haute Tribune in October of 1981 while attending Terre Haute North Vigo High School. He went on to continue his writing for several newspapers and magazines throughout the United States.

In his senior year, he was a homecoming escort for the fall Sports Queen court at Terre Haute North Vigo High School in 1983.

During the spring and summer of 1989, Anthony worked as a newspaper correspondent and as a waiter at a pub in the tiny New Hampshire town of Hampton Beach. His frequent customers included high-school teacher Pamela Smart and her husband, Greg, the former later convicted of seducing several of her students to get them to murder her husband. The notorious case shocked the nation and is the basis for the film To Die For (1995) starring Nicole Kidman.

His first professional writer's office was on Prospect Street in La Jolla, California in the early 1990s.

He hosted a local live-audience TV talk show entitled "Reality with Anthony Bruce", based in San Diego in 1993.

In 1997 he penned his play, "Visions of Sugarplums", which premiered in a Palm Springs, California, theatre one year later.

In 1998 independent film producer Edward J.

Fasulo was impressed enough with Bruce's writing talent to commission him to write the screenplay for the film version of his play, Visions of Sugarplums (2001), which was released in VHS and DVD formats on November 30, 2001.

In November 2004, he was diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder, for which he continues treatment.

In July 2005, he underwent emergency surgery to remove his gall bladder. According to his surgeon at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, if he didn't have the operation, he would have died within two weeks.

Currently working with actor and producing partner Antonio Rufino to produce Anthony's biopic screenplay "Redefining Normal", which is based on Anthony's very own colorful true life story. Principal photography for the project is set to begin June 2006 in Hollywood and will conclude with on- location filming in Anthony's hometown of Terre Haute, Indiana between Thanksgiving and Christmas 2006. This will be the very first feature film ever shot on-location in Terre Haute's history. [December 2005]

His screenplay _Redefining Normal (2007)_ is loosely based on his forthcoming autobiography "Out With It: My Personal Journey To Self-Acceptance".

He was nearly killed on Jaurary 14, 2008 when the car he was driving was flipped three times after he was hit by a speeding motorist on Sunset Boulevard near Benedict Canyon in Beverly Hills, California.