Heap o' Links Tue Aug 1, 2023

I worked with Paul during my time at Panavision on our sound stage. We hit it off and out of the blue he asked me what my birthday was and there it was, a birthday card from him for the next three years all in the Pee Wee motif.

Actually went up to his house one night for dinner. His living room was stuffed to the gills with Pee Wee related dolls, board games and every other kind of marketing kitsch toy you could ever imagine. He was a very chill dude and talked of doing some serious character roles if the opportunity came to him. Standing outside near his pool that night after dinner, finishing some very fine single malt scotch, I turned and saw the HOLLYWOOD sign literally draped over the top of his yard trees as his house was the last at the top of the canyon below the sign.

Never saw or heard from him again after that night. I don't want to think he was expecting something else to happen but I may have been wrong. Still, he seemed like a good guy to me.