Bob, at 09:40 on Tue, Oct 25 1994, you wrote to Bill Grimsley ...

BL> Henry did write Moon River, and won the Oscar for it. 

BG> Was Mancini a poof? And what did he do with Oscar?

BL> Mancini a poof! I'll smash all his records at once.

Was that an intentionally clever ambiguity, or just a stroke of good
fortune?  I'm still trying to figure out whether you mean to smash all his
records immediately, or simultaneously.  |-)

BL> I saw him interviewed not long before he died, and he seemed to 
BL> be a very nice man (in his seventies, it seemed).

True, Jack had actually toured Oz with Mancini, way back in the late 60s
from memory, and although I wasn't fortunate enough to have been able to
meet him at the time, I only heard good things about the man.  BTW, Jack
also toured with Sammy Davis Jr. at around much the same time, and I did
get to meet him.  Frankly, I found him to be an ill-mannered little man,
seemingly full of his own self-importance (although as a 13 year old at the
time, my perceptions of him may not have been totally accurate).

BL> He knew he only had months to live, and he was hurrying to finish the 
BL> score of his last show because he didn't want to let them down.

I expect that he may also have wanted to be paid before he died.  |-)

BL> I would like to have an ability like that. After everything else, he 
BL> seemed to be content with his life's work.

This is quite often the case with the truly brilliant creative artists and
musicians, too.

BG> Oh, I though Katherine Ross was in that film, and the nearest they got 
BG> to bicycles was when Redford sniffed Katherine's bike seat.

BL> You're a sick man, Bill... 

Why, thank you Bob!  I needed some encouragement this morning too. |-)

BL> one of the best movies of all time, and you remember only that! 

Not _only_ that, although it did make the most lasting impression.

BL> The bits us human beings remember is the jump off the cliff and the 
BL> end where they got shot ;-)

Sorry Bob, I simply don't Bolivia.  |-)

Regards, Bill

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