Graver memorial update

[The Night Man]

The different opinions of what exactly went on at the funeral service reminds one of Rashomon...

I didn't mean to suggest that no one was offended. We know for a fact that at least one person was!

All I can say for certain is that no one sitting near me expressed offense and I saw no mass exodus during or after the TOSOTW clip.

But of course you're right - multiple witnesses to anything will produce multiple versions of what went on, each colored by their own response to what they've seen & heard.

[Tony]

I was just thinking that the Oja/Random/car clip would seem a natural for Gary Graver's service: the absolute intersection where porn/sexploitation becomes art in Gary's work: TOSOTW, Gary's dream of 30 years, the only dramatic picture he and Welles completed the principal photography on. He toiled in porn, but dreamed of art: Welles gave him the opportunity to work with the best. We know Oja wrote the scene, and certainly Welles would know that Graver had experience in shooting sexual scenes.

A great tribute! And obviously done with his widow's permission.