August 25th, 2006

Joe Applebaum (producer) and Stu Maddux (director) report that their trip through the Southwest to spread the word about our documentary took a creepy turn this morning. They were in Colorado Springs, CO to drop off a DVD of our film to For The Family, the “family values” group. “This place is a campus,” Stu said. “It’s as big as a city college.” Joe noticed a city police car following them almost from the time they exited the highway.The two kept trying to find the front entrance of the complex and the Colorado Springs Police Department kept following. “The only thing that I can figure is that we were profiled”, says Joe. “We were two gay looking guys in a van with California License plates driving up to For The Family = Code Orange!” Stu and Joe decided to drop the DVD in the mail. They turned back onto I-25 and the cops stopped following.

August 15, 2006

This is something that's not very new, but it's timely. I, several years ago, took to writing about my association with jack. I called it "out from behind the mike." It's really a "no holds barred" revelation of how we met in Munich, Germany, in 1951. If you've seen our documentary you know it took place in the army. The book tells of the meeting and subsequent happenings for the following fifty-five years. I sent the writing to several agents and publishers and they were nice enough to write back and say they couldn't handle it. That was ten years ago. Things have changed now and if you are interested in learning more about the book, I'll be happy to hear from you. Email me here

August 7th, 2006

There is a great article about us in IN Newsweekly (Boston, MA.) about our world premiere in Providence, RI at the Rhode Island International Film Festival. That’s an event I really wish we could go to! Now going that far away would be pushing it with Jack! Maybe I could have talked him into it. We’ll start with Fresno, CA. and I’ll keep you posted!

August 4, 2006

It’s turning out to be a great week for us! Sunday we learned that Fresno Reel Pride also wants to screen our documentary and actually have us up for questions and answers about our lives together. Stu told us that he got the call while he and Joe were bicycling on Hwy 1 in Central California. How picturesque.

Down here in LA, I was very glad that it was Jack who took the call. Jack likes staying closer to familiar surroundings a lot more these past few years. So when he seemed so excited about going to Fresno- I can’t tell you how happy it made me.

Jack and I actually lived in Fresno together for about a year in the late fifties. One reason that we moved there was to deal with all the depression from the weather in Washington state. This was way before so many people took anti-depressants! But, we eventually felt that we needed to go back to Raymond, Washington where our first radio station was.