http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Holmes_(actor)
Long ago and far away, John Holmes was an acquaintance (and a great dancing partner!), of mine.
John Holmes and I spent many an evening after dancing all night, alone at his Glendale apartment, talking and having coffee.
He was a pleasant, nice, regular guy (I had no idea of his 'porno' stardom at the time.). I think he liked having a female friend that he wasn't involved with romantically, sexually, or 'work related'.
I did not even know, at the time, that his birth surname was ESTES (his father: Carl Estes, and my father of record was Clyde Estes)! I would have had a LOT of questions for him
Our acquaintance was just as he was getting involved heavily in drugs. Once he was really into drugs big time, (as were so many in that time), I lost track of him. (We even stopped phoning each other.) Except of course, I 'followed' him in the papers as they reported on his legal woes
And finally, the story reporting his death.
