I just spoke to John's mother a few hours ago. Being he is one of my best friends, I am devastated. I have known him since 1983 and he has always been a great friend to me. Apparently he had a heart attack. We had just gone to see Ironman a week or so ago together. He was a huge comic book fan and had a great collection. Our ritual was always to go see films like the Hulk, Spiderman, X-men together. Also, he was good friends with one of the owners of a Music venue here in West palm Beach, so whenever there was a great Rock show, he'd always get me great seats, usually front row.
He was a judge in several of the bodybuilding shows I used to compete in and he was now promoting The Palm Beach Pro show the last few years which was pro fitness, figure and bodybuilding (IFBB). He was just a great guy, had a cool Rottweiler dog, was a personal trainer at Ultima Fitness and I would imagine anyone who knew him probably liked him. I'm a film maker and he helped me write a great barbarian Script. (He's has a huge Conan comic collection) and he's friends with Gunther and Roland Kickinger. We've had lunch with both Roland and Gunther and they liked the idea of being in it. Also we wanted Ralph Mueller to be in it. If I can get some funding for this film, it will definitely happen. You were a great friend, John. I'll miss you.