Thanks, Wes. But if I told ya too much stuff, you'd have to kill me; so I'll just continue droppen names without too much honest stuff that would get me in too much trouble.
Here is some trouble-free stuff that I think is funny and interesting enough to tell.
When we picked Steve up at the airport to take him to a "Welcome, Steve Reeves" shindig, we began talking about the olds day of the "sport" of bodybuilding (old days in this regard means the 40's and the 50's when Steve was still a teenager and a bit beyond), his early movie and TV efforts (The Ralph Edwards Show, Jail Bait, The Burns and Allen Show, Athena, L'il Abner, and Kismet - I think it was Kismit), his career making the Herc movies, and his future plans.
But the main thing he was really concerned about during that 20 minute limo ride was the present situation of roids in the BB world. He made it clear that he was really disappointed in that respect. In fact, he seemed rather sad while discussing it.
Upon arriving at the function everyone was standing around talking to one another awaiting his arrival. But Hercules (the original movie) was playing on a big screen in the corner and had about 20 minutes to go until the end.
Steve looked around the room and saw that everyone seemed to be having a good time talking to one another so he nudged two of us to come with him and take a seat in front of that big screen and watch the last 20 minutes of so of Hercules the original.
So we did just that and Steve was offering soft spoken comments on the various scenes we were watching (mainly thanks to Joseph Levine and polite comments about the actresses Sylva someone and Maria someone).
When it was all over he stood up and said, "OK, let's go meet everyone. I want to shake hands with everyone here. I guess that's why they all showed up."
So we toured the room in an orderly progression and Steve met everyone, some of whom he had already known from earlier occasions in his lifetime including Tommy and Harold and Peter George; so it took an hour or so to shake all those hands and talk old time stories as briefly as possible.
We took lots of group photos but I have no idea where those photos are now; but I'm gonna do my best to get some from the one person I know who has the identical set and then post them on here unless I can sell them for millions of dollars to one of the national mags.
Anyway, this wasn't a real eye-opening, adventurous story but I thought that it was interesting that Steve felt bad about the present condition of bodybuilding and also that he was still interested in watching parts of a movie that he had made 40 year's earlier. And telling it once again encourages me to look for those great photos taken on that occasion back then and get 'em posted for the world to see.
