STEVO

Those who have read Lola's Luck will remember Stevo. He called me several weeks ago. We hadn't talked for more than twenty years and I went into catatonic shock. In fact, when we hung up, I made a list of all the things I might have said to ease my frustration.

We laughed about the name I chose for him for the book, Stevo Polo -- Polo is his favorite aftershave. He wanted to be in the movie, not as romantic lead, of course, but rather "an older man." There is no movie, I explained and I could tell he found that hard to believe. Apparently, the big Hollywood Movie rumor, and big Hollywood dollars, is making the Roma rounds.

He asked some personal questions, of course, and admitted he is now living with an American woman, not the Spanish lady of an earlier time, but someone else. He still lives in a jealous world, I note, and is apparently no more available for contact by telephone than he was when he lived with wife Tutsi. But he is still alive and that is very good to know.