the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Ridgewood NJ, in January 2016 the Ridgewood blog reported, “Its a bird, its a plane no its a heavily intoxicated Superman. On Thursday 1/21/16, patrol responded to a business on East Ridgewood Ave for the report of an adult male dressed in a Superman costume sitting in the lobby of the business. Upon arrival, officers found a heavily intoxicated 29-year-old male from Hackensack. The man was transported to Valley Hospital for treatment related to the intoxication. ( https://theridgewoodblog.net/ridgewood-police-bust-superman/ ).”
Well, Superman got sober and that’s now what the S stands for. Robbie DeRaffele a Paramus High School graduate has written a script based on his life and is in the middle of raising money to make the movie a reality. The movies uses sports to discuss addiction, sobriety and mental illness.
According to Robbie,” I was an alcoholic from 23 -28 years old, and I loved basketball, I was looking at development leagues, Walk-ons with the Knicks… the whole time a couldn’t control my problem but no one knew so I was happy and still in great physical shape. My good cousin, who was 6’8 270 lbs was headed to get drafted in the NFL when he died in a car accident as a passenger… from there I started having a catch with my best friend, and he knew football very good and said I had a chance in the League but he was my best friend. I wrote a letter to Jim Fassel, the Head Coach of the Giants, now he was coaching a championship UFL league. Somehow he wrote back to me seeing my stats on paper inviting me for a tryout in Las Vegas for his Pro team. It went decent but not good enough. I tried out for 3 NFL teams 2Canadian football teams 3 UFL teams, 8 tryouts in football never had played while hiding my alcoholism.”
Today our Superman is clean and working on a movie based on his life. The movie is a deep sports drama including a copywriter of this 100-page script in hopes of turning Motion Picture. Foundation Digital Films and I, Robbie DeRaffele along with my cast and negotiable others have put in three months of hard work. Robbie is currently raising funds for the movie “The Call”.
“All proceeds will go to the official making of “The Call” including merging with more crew members, camera equipment, lighting, paying actors, and Crew, Anything production-related. This Movie is a serious Upholder for Sobriety and mental illness. Mental Health awareness has been severely overlooked, and the importance of Sobriety is a key factor in this movie. -Seeking Three Million Dollars-Seeking investors/producers to make this a large scale feature film, you are truly investing in something that can score a huge Touchdown, nothing is guaranteed in return but if it’s a Success each investor will be paid accordingly. Thank you for digging deep, and imagining that anything is possible.” -Robbie DeRaffele
Super get em a movie contract
I’d watch that movie, for sure.