Film wins Audience Choice Award in Memphis

Bob and Jack'2 52-Year Adventure is the winner of this year's Audience Choice Award for Best Documentary at the OutFlix Gay and Lesbian Film Festival in Memphis, Tennessee.
Thank-you, Memphis, for voting for us.
I know that it can be a pain to fill out those little ballot forms but it means a lot to Jack and I.
You've helped two older gentlemen feel that much more validated!

Bob: "I'm back on line!!"

Director Stu Maddux helps Bob transfer his email account

It's great to have my computer again!
I'll try to catch up with you as quickly as I can. I have quite a few backlogged emails from everyone.
Thank-you Stu (director) and Joe (producer)!
They came over to get me back on line once I bought my new computer. I feel like such a writer now with this little laptop. It reminds me of a portable typewriter. Something few of you would probably recognize.

Bob Claunch writing copy for AFN Broadcast, Munich, 1952

Stu is hauling off the old desktop computer off to the recycling center.

Not having the computer for a two weeks was actually easier for me than it would have been for most people because of my age. Jack and I remember a time when there was no television for goodness sake. But I must say that it has given me such a connection to the outside world that I do cherish. And I don't care what people say about the "lost art of letter writing". It was a pain in the ass compared to email.

More later- Bob

Director and Producer back from Washington DC

Director Stu Maddux in front of the Oval Office

Bob:

Joe (producer) and I had a great time at Reel Affirmations in Washington DC.
It's a very well done film festival. The people are very friendly and organized. Usually it's one or the other...or neither! The city has absolutely crazy traffic and I swear to God we were going to hit a J-walker. We had to drive all over the city do some shooting for our next documentary, "Trip To Hell And Back". Fitting title if you'd been in the car with us.
So at the end of the day it was nice to find the welcoming arms of the people at the festival. Whew.

I've just posted pics of our time there at: http://bobandjack.org/festpics.html

We also got some very exciting news about that next documentary.
I'll post it here first when it's official from the festival!

Bob and Jack screen in Nation's Capital this weekend

Director Stu Maddux (center) and Producer/Partner Joe Applebaum (left) of Bob and Jack's 52-Year Adventure will be in Washington DC for a screening of the documentary at Reel Affirmations this Saturday at 11am. It should be a great event. We are paired with the most perfect film: Emile Norman, By His Own Design. Details are on the website. We'd love to get your thoughts on Bob and Jack. If you saw the film please comment here (or especially on your own blog). It helps us a great deal to spread the word. We are also in need of reviews of the film on amazon.com where the DVD is now offered. Here's the link to the exact page. I'm going to write a book someday about what a grass roots effort this film has become.

BTW-both Bob and Jack are doing great at their new place here in Los Angeles for gay and lesbian seniors. We visit on Sundays when the farmer's market is going on right outside their balcony. I'm sure there's a very un-pc joke circulating about fresh fruit outside and old fruits inside. .. bob says they are making a lot of friends.


-Stu Maddux, Director, Bob and Jack's 52-Year Adventure

Hi everyone, Bob's computer is fried.

Hi there. This is Stu (director). Joe (producer) and I had to take Bob's computer in to the shop today. I think he downloaded too much porn or something and it won't even power up now (just kidding, BC). He should be back on the blog in the next week. I'll be filling in for him in the meantime. Now here's my chance to finally put up this picture of Bob and Jack from their work as extras in the eighties and they can't do a damn thing about it for at least a week!!!

hee hee!

I just got this email from someone I once worked with...

The other night I was searching the internet for different radio stations and people I used to listen to and work with. Imagine my surprise when I searched for you guys. Not because you were gay (hell, everybody in Raymond, Washington knew that) but that there was a movie. Mom will be surprised too. Every time the Golden Girls is on she mentions the episode that Jack was in. I told her I've seen both of you on WKRP sitting in the lobby as sales manager candidates.

I was thinking that you should show the movie in Olympia. I showed the website to my daughter's gay roommate and mentioned that it should play here because of the large gay community. His comment was that "it's mostly lesbians". I said that it shouldn't matter.

True love is damned hard to find for everyone. I've always told my kids that when they find the right person they will know it and, if they are lucky enough to be partners, to work hard to hold onto that. You guys found it, fought to keep it, and made it last longer than most couples.

How could anyone be against something like that?

John

Here's a comment from my MySpace page

What a moving and adorable photo! It's a sexier photo to us (two guys in their 50s) than all the gym-buffed nude guys proliferating the Internet. This is real love. ~Johnnie and Toby, 31 years together so far!
(photo from our MySpace page)

Reply to Birthday cards. I'm 82 Now

Good to hear from you, Jo. And thanks for the birthday card. We've been busy too. The staff here at the apartment complex gave us a nice party on Thursday afternoon. They are sure good to their tenants. Most of them are gay and we all have similar stories to tell. Jack and I were told by several how effective and interesting our documentary is. We felt like movie stars. We hope to show it here at the complex. We have a handsome room for it to show in. Guess we have screened it many places. and I truly enjoy looking over the film's website to check in on everything and then blog about what's going on. We were told by Stu and Joe (director and producer) that Lisbon loved us. The affair was packed. They came home last Sunday tired but happy.
Now, Sunday morning means Farmers Market. It's a pleasant affair every week and people flock to it. It involves about five blocks and there's even music to bolster the affair. I'm surprised that there's no dancing.
Thanks again, kids, for the birthday cards.

I'm feeling fine on this 82nd year and Jack is well, too, except for his problems, but he seldom complains. Bless him and you, too. Bob