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He stopped talking to basically all of us. i think he was so angry with the whole situation he was just saying, i am cutting off everything. josh mankiewicz: but then, just after thanksgiving, all that seemed to change. russell had recently changed jobs and was close to completing an online master's degree program. and as christmas approached, russell reached out to family members and told his brother matt that he wanted to reconcile with his wife. he said, you know, i think i need to start doing the right things. brenna wants me back. i want her back. i want to be involved in the kid's life. ...

>> she'd called me after a really rough supposedly argument and i said, well, is he hurting you? is he hitting you? and she said no, really, he isn't physical. it's just emotional and verbal, but i've hit him a couple of times. >> earlier that year russel had separated from brenna. he'd taken an apartment near seattle and had a new girlfriend. for his family, the ongoing drama of russel's life was exhausting. >> he stopped talking to, basically, all of us. i think he was so angry with the whole situation he was just saying, i'm cutting off everything. >> but then just after thanksgiving all th...

Argument. and i said, well, is he-- is he hurting you? is he-- is he hitting you? and she said, no, really, he isn't physical. it's just emotional and verbal, but i've hit him a couple of times. josh mankiewicz: earlier that year, russell had separated from brenna. he'd taken an apartment near seattle and had a new girlfriend. for his family, the ongoing drama of russell's life was exhausting. he stopped talking to basically all of us. i think he was so angry with the whole situation he was just saying, i am cutting off everything. josh mankiewicz: but then, just after thanksgiving, all that s...

>> take over for a while, i'll be right back. no, no. no, no, no. >> that's it. no, no, no. >> you dare not change it. it's too good. >> think of the possibilities. >> james, every time i meet an actor i am in love with and think is great and you meet them and realize, somebody once said this of cary grant, you met cary grant and you wish you hadn't met him because he isn't cary grant. nobody can be cary grant in real life, because you need a line, a great moment, you need a scene. you need a camera. what was he like as opposed to his character? >> are you talking about cary grant or james gan...

Master class and a master's degree program at pace university. he was there to teach, and he taught our students -- we've been on 19 years. we just did our 250th episode, and rarely in the 19 years has anybody brought as much technique and craft to our stage as that man did. he was trained for two years by sanford meisner's people and he gave our students a lesson in acting that was -- o life va couldn't have done better. pacino didn't do better. gandolfini was right up there with him. those two things rn combined in him, tack nek aechnique and tal. >> he's going to be missed and i can't wait ...