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\nYou can say that again. I’m still here.<\/p>\n
It’s his birthday today. I discovered him when I was 10, 11, and everyone in my very small weird generation knew who he was. He was a teen idol. Something about him GOT to me. The obsession burned – in a grade-school way – I was barely prepared for the TUMULT of feeling he inspired. For me, it was the Afterschool Specials. I “followed” him as best I could. He died last year. I had never written anything about him before, except in passing, this golden boy of my pre-adolescent dreams, so I decided to pay tribute on my Substack<\/a>.<\/p>\n I was Googling around looking for recent interviews with him, and found a really good one<\/a>. He tells some great stories about all the people he worked with – these famous legends who were all still around in the 70s: Mitchum, Glenn Ford, etc. I loved hearing how he – a child at the time – thought about what he was doing as an actor, and why he liked being an actor. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" You can say that again. I’m still here. It’s his birthday today. I discovered him when I was 10, 11, and everyone in my very small weird generation knew who he was. He was a teen idol. Something about him … Continue reading