I met him once when he was promoting his autobiography IN THE ARENA. No way was he 6' 2" -- he looked slighter than I expected, but he had the aura of a colossus. He was my mother's favorite -- she called him "Charleston Heston" -- and we took her to the bookstore to meet him. When she got to the signing table, she humbly asked, "Could I touch you?" and he said with a chuckle "Certainly, madam!", put down his pen, and took both her hands warmly. For my part, I thanked him for helping Orson to find work and he said "I'm very proud of that." "Rightly so," I said. I also asked if there would be another volume of his Journals, as was promised by his first such collection AN ACTOR'S LIFE, and he said very surely, "Yes." The second volume hasn't appeared yet, but perhaps it will now. I still have my copy of IN THE ARENA -- signed with a flourish that looks downright presidential. I too was opposed to his politics, but I liked him -- as an actor, as an activist (for speaking out on behalf of what he believed in), and as a writer also. I also liked him for the way he handled my mother.

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