A tough week for legends

When I met Lauren Bacall in 1980 I'd only seen here in television and in the star-studded Murder on the Orient Express.

I stopped in at Blackwell's, the Oxford bookseller, one day looking for something else.  They didn't do booksignings much, but there was a sign and a line and there she was.

Lauren Bacall radiated the star power of a Mexican border radio station.

She caught my eye and boy howdy I was in line with a copy of her book, Me.

I don't remember what we talked about when I reached her in line. I just remember thinking if she asked me to marry her on the spot, I'd have said yes on the spot.

And that's how I met one of the great Hollywood legends, who has died at the age of 89.