Good Bye Lenny

I called my grade school/high school friend/college friend roommate Steve Rothman last week looking for a contact to Burt Reynold. Steve and Burt use to deal when Steve was running theatre in Florida. I am trying to find someone to say something or write something for Dom DeLuise for the upcoming Animation Afternoon of Remembrance and Burt is the logical one.


Afternoon of Remembrance
Lasky-DeMille Barn
HOLLYWOOD HERITAGE
2100 North Highland Avenue
(in the parking lot next to the Hollywood Bowl)
Los Angeles, CA 90068-3241
March 13th
12 Noon meet and eat
Remembrance starting at 1 PM

I was shocked to hear that Steve’s father, Leonard, had just died. Sure Lenny was in is 80s but it is hard to think of a world without him. There was a time in high school when Leonard Rothman was more of a father to me than the father I was issued at birth. My father wasn’t there very much. And when he was he really wasn’t.

Lenny Rothman was loud and demonstrative and always treated me like just another one of his sons. There are some debts you can never pay. All you can do is just acknowledge them.