Ivan, who is used to being a doc-
tor, is very studied in his ap-
proach. I, as a director, approach
writing from a visual, produc-
tion-oriented standpoint. Ted,
as an actor, approaches writing
from a character's point of view."
Ivan traces his professional
collaboration with his brother
to the years he was attending
the University of Osteopathic
Medicine in Des Moines.
"Sam would visit me in Iowa,
and I would go out to Los Ange-
les so we could work on differ-
ent films together," Ivan
recalled. "He helped me write
Easy Wheels, a low-budget, mo-
torcycle comedy shown on the
USA Network.
'We worked on Darkman to-
gether when I was living in Ohio
doing an internal medicine res-
idency. I finished that up and
came out to Los Angeles about
two years ago.
"I like both medicine and
films so much that I don't want
to give up one or the other. The
flexibility of emergency medi-
cine gives me time to work on
films, and thus far I've kept the
two worlds separate."
The youngest Raimi son, Ted,

28, has scant time to devote to
interests beyond his weekly-
series.
"A lot of people think TV ac-
tors go from one party to the
next, and when they have time,
they go to the studio and do a lit-
tle acting," said Ted, who hopes
to use his summer off from the
series to produce a film of his
own in Detroit.
"The truth of the matter is I
barely have time to do my laun-
dry. My workdays start around
7 a.m. and go to 9 at night. I
don't have much of a social life
other than with the people on
the set."
Ted's had about a half dozen
TV parts, appearing on "Twin
Peaks," "ALF," "Baywatch" and
"Alien Nation."
"I really didn't break into TV
as much as I broke into movies
and moved on to TV," recalled
Ted, who recently acted with
Harrison Ford in the motion pic-
ture Clear and Present Danger.
"I probably have done about
10 feature films, starring in two
of them and having supporting
parts in the rest. My first movie
role was in a low-budget pro-
duction called Nightmare in

Shadow Woods, which starred
Louise Lasser.
"The first part I had on TV
was in a very short-lived corn-
edy series, 'Knight and Day."
Of the three brothers, Ted is
the most schooled in performing.
He studied acting at Oakland
Community College, Michigan
State University, New York
University and the University
of Detroit.
"I wasn't in college to get an
impressive-looking degree," Ted
said. "I knew I wanted to be an
actor, and I think I got the best
training of my career at U-D.

From home movies
to Hollywood.

They had their own theater, and
I did eight shows in one year."
Remaining close, the broth-
ers visit one another as they
work on projects, often inviting
their sister's family, which in-
cludes her husband Stuart and
son Sander, 5, to join them.
A chiropractor, Stuart Rubin
has spent part of those visits

doing some back adjust-
ments for his brothers-in-
law, and they have dubbed
him "chiropractor to the
stars."
When Dr. Raimi trav-
eled to Arizona to observe
the shooting of The Quick
and the Dead, an actor suf-
fered a heart attack and
needed to be treated by Dr.
Raimi in the desert until
paramedics could fly in
with equipment and take
the patient to the hospital.
Celia and Larry Raimi
also go out on location.
"It's great having them
on the set," Sam said. "My
parents were always on the set
when the set was their house,
so it's a very natural state of af-
fairs for me."
When Mr. and Mrs. Raimi
were in Arizona, they met and
had their pictures taken with
cast members including Sharon
Stone.
"We go on the set of every one
of Sam's movies," revealed Mrs.
Raimi, a Tyrone Power fan who
decorated one wall of her den
with sketches and photos of the
once-popular actor and another

Ted Raimi on the set of "seaQuest."

Above: Directortproducer Sam Raimi.

wall with posters from her sons'
projects.
"I love stars, and I love being
around them. I love watching
the movies being made, and I
think it's exciting walking
around Universal Studios."
Mrs. Raimi, who was filmed
and edited out of 15 of her
youngsters' home epics, reports

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