Activist Jay Ruderman on March 3 presented an award to brothers Peter and Bobby Farrelly for their decades of championing people with disabilities, saying show business “has the power to change public perception like no other industry.” The occasion was the sixth annual Morton E.
Ruderman Award for Inclusion, presented by the Ruderman Family Foundation and held at the Waldorf Astoria in Beverly Hills. Onstage, Jay Ruderman pointed out that U.S.
unemployment is now 4%, but people with disabilities have 70% unemployment, despite being an estimated 20% of the population.
The Farrelly brothers have cast people both in front of and behind the camera since their second film, the 1996 “Kingpin.” Bobby Farrelly said, “Whatever we’ve given to the
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