I just learned that one of my favorite people in the whole world, Nelson Lyon, has passed away. I hadn't seen him or talked to him in at least 10 years, but whenever I was in Los Angeles in the 1990s we would have lunch together, and they were always very much like "My Dinner With Andre", except that while Nelson was just as interesting as Andre Gregory, he was also incredibly funny, often in a self-deprecating way.
He loved lobby cards, especially those from great silent directors, and he kept asking me when the world would see how incredible they were, and I didn't have an answer. I never asked him about Belushi, and he never volunteered anything, so I figured he has no desire to go there. He would tell me all sorts of wild stories (many never got finished because he kept going off on tangents), and I would do my best to find interesting things about my past to share with him. He thought my Las Vegas poker world stories would make a great movie, and he proposed a lunch with him and Terry Southern (who had written The Cincinnati Kid) but Southern died soon after and that never came to be. There is no point writing about a lunch with Nelson, because words could never do the experience justice! But I always very much looked forward to them, and I recently had thoughts to go to Los Angeles soon and I was planning on calling him (sure he would not be surprised to get a call from me out of the blue after 10 years), and I am very sad that will never happen now. Those of you who knew him surely know how fascinating he was, and I bet there are lots of others who will miss him in exactly the same way I will. He was absolutely one-of-a-kind! http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-nelson-lyon-20120720,0,6644530.story -- Bruce Hershenson and the other 26 members of the eMoviePoster.com team P.O. Box 874 West Plains, MO 65775 Phone: 417-256-9616 (hours: Mon-Fri 9 to 5 except from 12 to 1 when we take lunch) our site <http://www.emovieposter.com/> our auctions <http://www.emovieposter.com/agallery/all.html> Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___________________________________________________________________ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [email protected] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
