Exactly right Bruce. Totally crazy & wacky but tremendous fun to be
around. The lunches were legendary with Nelson railing against
everything and everybody. He was always full of ideas and
encouragement with my movie projects when I was pursuing that.
I will certainly miss him.
sam
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On Jul 20, 2012, at 2:42 PM, Bruce Hershenson wrote:
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
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