I've been thinking a lot lately about John Spencer, a wonderful actor who died at the age of 58 this past December. Celebrity gossip is not something I'm very interested in, and I don't tend to follow the lives and times of very many actors or actresses. But I had a real respect for Spencer, who always impressed me as a driven and talented man. Like Anthony Hopkins or Richard Harris, Spencer was an actor's actor---a professional; someone, according to his colleagues, to be respected and counted on.
I have no desire to be an actress and I hope very much that I won't pass on as young as 58. But I hope that when I do die, people will say the same kinds of things about me that were said about Spencer. He did for people. He opened his heart and worked quietly and well. Not too bad a legacy, is it?
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