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While visiting a friend directing a movie in London in 1989, I was introduced to the unforgettable Mr. Jonathan Gems. Near the end of my visit Jonathan invited us to spend some time at his family's home in Bembridge on The Isle of Wight. We enjoyed a memorable weekend in this two hundred year old estate and Jonathan and I became friends. Later that same year, Mr. Gems moved to Los Angeles and continued his writing career. He had been a playwright primarily, but in Hollywood he found consistant work as a writer for the screen. I appeared in a short film (The Dress) he directed in 1992. In 1996 Jonathan's "Mars Attacks" was directed by Tim Burton. Critics complained, but I saw it in Harlem on a Saturday night and had the time of my life! Jonathan has returned home to London and continues to write, collect interesting people, and go to marvelous parties. This dear gentleman was listening to The Cowboy Junkies' "Rock and Bird" when his Clock portrait was taken April 23, 1990.

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