By Kevin S. Giles
Soon after Dances With Wolves won Best Picture, as I drank beer in a Tucson hotel with fellow newspaper editors, a man watching fish in the nearby aquarium caught our attention. I recognized him even without the feathers.
He resembled Graham Greene, who played Kicking Bird in Kevin Costner’s epic. That very moment, Beau Bridges walked past with a woman on each arm. He wore a tuxedo. I went to the front desk to claim my room. A tall silver-haired man stood next to me. He was Lloyd Bridges, dad to Beau and Jeff, and star of Sea Hunt, a 1960s TV drama I watched in boyhood. Minutes later, I went to the elevator.
“Hold the door!” someone called. In walked Terrance Knox, an actor from TV’s St. Elsewhere and a subsequent Vietnam war drama, Tour of Duty. He stuck out his hand. “Hi, I’m Terry,” he greeted me. Being face to face with the TV doctor who became a serial rapist in the basement morgue of the St. Eligius hospital (the actual name of St. Elsewhere) gave me pause.