Any hopes or fears that contemporary contact might entail some of the psychodramas that distinguished his famous meetings of the past (bringing a rabbi, a Catholic priest and a specially flown-in Tibetan monk to a sit down with the producers of American History X being perhaps the most notorious; persistently dressing as Osama Bin Laden in New York in the aftermath of 9/11, a debateable second) are defused by an email exchange that suggests a man driven more by an anxiety to create rather than an instinct to confront.
I set sail plane ship car bus pack my bag things for Los Angeles in 1991, I think that was the year that I went there I knew I had to go there I saw it on the television as a yid kid in 1954 and 1955 and…
