Gerry straub and biography

          “I grew up in NYC. I loved the Church.

          Gerry Straub had a long and distinquished career as a network television executive and producer in New York and Hollwood; he produced dramatic series that....

          Issue Date:  November 3, 2006

          Hollywood and poverty

          Filmmaker puts the power to film at the service of the poor

          By RENÉE LaREAU
          Burbank, Calif.

          It’s a warm September evening, and the idyllic streets of downtown Burbank are quiet.

          I walk with filmmaker Gerry Straub past the corner of Magnolia Boulevard and Hollywood Way, and he points in the direction of Warner Bros. and NBC studios, where “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno” is taped, just a few blocks away.

          PERSONAL: Born March 31, , in Brooklyn, NY; son of William V. (a business executive) and Frances (Croake) Straub; married second wife, Kathleen Grosso (a.

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          5. We cross the street and enter a modest, low-slung building, and we sit down in Straub’s windowless office. Straub’s photography -- sizeable, framed black-and-whites -- covers the walls from top to bottom. Everywhere I turn, I see beautiful, humble human faces -- the faces of the poor in Peru, Kenya, India and Philadelphia.

          These are not the typical images of “beautiful downtown Burbank,” where billboards splashed with celebrities line the nearby freeways, a