August 22nd, Fine Arts, Wilshire Boulevard, L.A. People are lining up at 6:30 for a 7:30 screening so I already have a hunch this might be good. By 8:00 when we start there hardly an empty seat in the house. I introduced the film and then stayed long enough to check the projection. No worries, it looked great. Since I've seen the film several hundred times, I go for a stroll with Tim Healey and when Garry Shandling shows up we hang outside, them chatting happily while I seethe with nerves. But I needn't have worried, the screening went great and almost all the capacity crowd stayed for the Q & A which was wonderful. The only bad news was that Karen Montgomery couldn't attend, having recently snapped her knee-cap in two. She was missed.
Onstage for the Q&A were myself, Garry Shandling, Dean Devlin, Tim Healey, Arye Gross, Elizabeth Berkley, Rhonda Aldrich and Julie Warner. You can see photos
here and click the 'ROY LONDON' link, and read the Backstage review
here.
A couple of people who had known or studied with Roy emerged from the crowd, wiping away tears. A moving night.