I'm just coming to this thread...the last few months have been peppered with loss of many kinds for me,
great and small, and I had to just let myself work my way here in my own time to deal with another sad
offering.
I loved John. I met him in Texas and that's where I discovered that he'd lived in Los Angeles for many years.
We could have known each other those years and I wished we had. I had so many conversations with him
over the subsequent years and enjoyed his company on a dozen occasions, including the wonderful Texas BBQ
at Linda's and the BBM screening and events in 2008 and the Autry museum celebration with the play, where
he invited me to attend the workshop of that, days/weeks was it?, beforehand.
We emailed numerous times about BBM related things over the years. The John I knew was a quiet man, but he
had a very amusing sense of humor and I loved hearing him laugh his quiet laugh. I remember when he wore his
authentic BBM shirt to the AMPAS screening and he was sitting in front of me. When the same shirt appeared on
screen I reached out and touched his shoulder and he put his hand over mine and was a lovely moment.
I remember visiting him at his Ramada Hotel room nearby one evening and we chatted about so many things
and he had some wonderful stories to tell about his days in Los Angeles.
Maybe we felt we had a special bond with one another because on that Texas weekend I first met him we discovered
we both had the same birthday and our birthday happens to be the same day Jack & Ennis reunited after 4 years in
BBM.
