I got to meet Gene Hackman once many years ago, my family's house happened to be a block away from his house, and his son went to school at the same place I did. For reasons completely irrelevant to this forum, I was summoned to their house to answer for something I had said to his son (6th or 8th grade school kid mischief stuff), and he was pretty gruff talking to me about it.
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He had a wood model of a Pitts Special on his bookcase, and in the middle of him chewing me out about I pointed to the model and said "Is that your Pitts?" and he couldn't be angry after that
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Never saw him or spoke to him again after that.?
Cat-Wind