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fezo · 07-03-2000, 03:00 PM

quote:Originally posted by Rob Wells:
Silver Heels,

I must share something with you about the last sentence of your post. I have a friend, her name is Kaki Hunter. Perhaps some of you may remember her from her acting days some fifteen years ago as her character of Wendy in all the Porkey's films. She of course did other films and was considered one of the brightest newcomers to Hollywood. She dumped her acting career flat. Still won't tell me why, so I don't press the issue. However, just last weekend we were talking and I said to her, "It must be a terrible thing to go to bed every night knowing that you touched the lives of millions of people with your humor, your tenderness, your sweetness and your beauty. To have shown us all just a little bit of who each of us are thru the characters you portrayed." She answered, "I try not to think about it. It's too much of a resposibility and it can drive a person crazy."

So I think that is how anyone like Gordon handles it. They do what they do and they are thankful to be doing it. But there isn't a single day of my life for the last thirty-five years that he hasn't been in there some place. Some line, some thought, some lesson that he passed on to all of us. He said he thinks he's "merely blessed." What does that make us?

Thanks Rob, that was a nice story. Like you and so many of us, Gord has touched my life in so many ways and he will continue to do so
for a long time to come - forever and then some. We are all blessed - Gord for being the inspiration and us lot for being so inspired by him.

07-03-2000, 03:00 PM	#19
fezo Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Manahawkin, NJ, 08050 Posts: 806	quote:Originally posted by Rob Wells: Silver Heels, I must share something with you about the last sentence of your post. I have a friend, her name is Kaki Hunter. Perhaps some of you may remember her from her acting days some fifteen years ago as her character of Wendy in all the Porkey's films. She of course did other films and was considered one of the brightest newcomers to Hollywood. She dumped her acting career flat. Still won't tell me why, so I don't press the issue. However, just last weekend we were talking and I said to her, "It must be a terrible thing to go to bed every night knowing that you touched the lives of millions of people with your humor, your tenderness, your sweetness and your beauty. To have shown us all just a little bit of who each of us are thru the characters you portrayed." She answered, "I try not to think about it. It's too much of a resposibility and it can drive a person crazy." So I think that is how anyone like Gordon handles it. They do what they do and they are thankful to be doing it. But there isn't a single day of my life for the last thirty-five years that he hasn't been in there some place. Some line, some thought, some lesson that he passed on to all of us. He said he thinks he's "merely blessed." What does that make us? Thanks Rob, that was a nice story. Like you and so many of us, Gord has touched my life in so many ways and he will continue to do so for a long time to come - forever and then some. We are all blessed - Gord for being the inspiration and us lot for being so inspired by him.