Post #810618 by SouthSeasKat on Tue, Sep 5, 2023 5:03 PM

Didn't care for his music, but by all accounts he was a really nice guy. At least the stories I've heard from people who were his fans and/or ran into him. If true, then it's always a loss to entertainment.

But then again, anecdotal evidence is anecdotal, so... For example, I met William Shatner and James Doohan, both with mottled reputations, as a kid, and Shatner was incredibly nice to me, where as Doohan seemed pretty annoyed by my presence and effectively shooed me away (he did give me an autograph, but very much in the "here, take this and go" kind of a way). Many stories have Shatner as a villain (perhaps in part due to the infamous SNL skit).

I'm not a huge celebrity person, but the few I've run into have been pretty nice (Drew Carey at an airport, for example), and most have been SF related.

Perhaps you need to drink both overly positive and overly negative depictions of celebrities with that rim of salt and lime, as Jimmy would have intended?