Thank you Cathy for the lovely and fitting tribute to Stephen. He was my trusted friend for over twenty years. Our birthdays being only five days apart, we celebrated together almost every year (inevitably I gave him a DVD and he gave me a book). In later years, I gave him some of the film posters that hung in his Fenway apartment.

Stephen was lovable and maddening and somewhere around 2007, we parted ways after I’d voiced concerns over something I felt was detrimental to him. We didn’t have...