It Wasn't 'Make Believe' for Peter Bogdanovich
I think Peter openly identified with the design that love makes life real.
In the June 2023 issue of AARP The Magazine, Oscar-winning actor and cancer and COVID survivor, Jeff Bridges, laments the loss of friends in his life.
In a profoundly intimate and revealing cover story article entitled , “Lucky Man,” by Tom Chiarella, the 72-year-old Hollywood superstar talks about aging and the latest demise of friends and colleagues he held dear.
“I’ve personally lost Peter Bogdanovich, who directed me in ‘The Last Picture Show,’ he says. “You asked me about the things that happen to old men. Their friends die, you know?”
I understood utterly what Jeff meant.
As you surely must have assumed, if you gratefully have visited my Substack site, that I am an older fellow as well.
I too, have lost close friends, allies and collaborators such as the highly respected and powerful actor Jason Robards, Oscar-winning director, Jonathan Demme, Orion Co-founder, Bill Bernstein, family film Producer (“Sounder”), Robert Radnitz, L. A. Times Arts Critic. Charles Champlin and “Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In’s”, beloved Henry Gibson.
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