As the pair cruised the skies looking for trouble, both could ignore Tur’s hot-temper and Gerrard’s emotional exhaustion. (In 2014, Bob transitioned to Zoey.) It’s a documentary about how the drive to document - that itchy awareness that somewhere in their megalopolis, something is happening - can distract people from their own reality. ![]() “ Whirlybird,” by director Matt Yoka, is the compelling story of the thrill-seeking couple’s rise and descent before their divorce in 2003. “It was a car crash or an air crash or a fire tape.” “There was never a movie date with Bob,” Gerrard reflects. ![]() ![]() Tur was a literal news junkie, an adrenaline addict who’d emotionally crash at the end of each pursuit. Whenever a big breaking news story overtook the Los Angeles TV airwaves in the ’80s and ’90s, viewers expected to hear a sign-off from married helicopter reporters Bob Tur and Marika Gerrard who spent the best - and worst - years of their relationship high in the sky. Michael Jackson’s sequined glove wanly waving as the pop star was wheeled to a burn unit. Madonna flipping off paparazzi on her wedding day to Sean Penn. J.Marika Gerrard, Zoey Tur, Katy Tur, Jamie Tur, Lawrence Welk III.
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