He didn't speak but appeared to be looking right into me as if to see who I really was. I talked faster, filling the void. AD a n s ig h R ts ic h d a an rd c in a g n d a n t d h e f e R el o in u g n d th e e rs i n o te r n L s e ity s INDEX Clams had their way with a raucous crowd. Richard tossed his head and rocked up there on stage, his angular rear end perched precariously on a piano stool in front of a solid black upright. His long bony arms flew through the air. He would have looked at home in a Chicago speakeasy, a New Orleans Storeyville whorehouse, a Montmartre cafe. I wanted Richard for my movie Property in which he was essentially to play leather strap around it. We laughed and I promised to bring his movie earnings in such a suitcase to whatever back room he was staying in by then. That time, sitting outside in the late afternoon sunshine, I was certainly not frightened of Richard. He was still a man of few words and difficult to know, but I had learned to pay a tten tion and unders tand his language. His music for Property, including a splendidly melancholy piano solo which became the movie’s theme, was praised from Portland to New York, from Miami to Back outside in the sunshine, I thought of Richard as mysterious, a note from underground. I had intruded upon him and his silence had frightened me. himself, a reclusive piano player in a rock’n’ roll band. I wanted the movie Richard to have money, unlike the real Richard who never really had the money he deserved to have. In the movie, Richard would decide to salvage his marginal friends property-buying scheme. His friends would all be surprised and thrilled and would think of Richard as a hero, at least for the moment. When I finally got up the nerve to talk to Richard, he was quite taken with the idea of being in a movie and being a hero. He imagined himself as some kind of honky tonk gambler bringing his $12,000 to the beleaguered community meeting in a suitcase, the cardboard kind, with a Portugal. Somebody in Cambridge, Mass, wrote that Richard’s exquisite music had a haunting, Satie-like quality to it. Movie earnings pulled Richard out of a tight spot once or twice, but somewhow there was never enough to fill a suitcase. At the end, when Richard seemed to be dying of alcoholism in the hospital, he rallied to his friends’ clamor for him to be heroic, to survive, and to make more music. But when he withdrew to the coast to try, seriously, to recover, it was too late, and he died. Writer Penny Allen is afrequent contributor to CSO living in Sisters, Oregon. 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