When I was living at Hazelton Ave. in Toronto (we had a commune) there was a premier or preview of 'Going Down the Road' at the New Yorker.
I went with Melinda, Carla and Helen, and Pauline. Pauline and i were going together at the time.
We were knocked out by the movie and afterward, we went to the Pilot and we all raved about it. we felt it was a big step for Canadian Movies. Pauline really liked it. anyway, they wanted to go back to Hazelton and i stayed on for a few more drinks.
so I am sitting there and who walks in but Paul Bradley. We hit it off we were friends from almost the first moment we met. We had a couple of hours of drinking and storytelling and somewhere in
this haze, i got a great idea. it was Pauline's birthday on Friday and we were having a party. So I talked Paul into coming and playing his character of Joey from the movie (this was not difficult). This was my idea of a crazy birthday present for Pauline.
Friday night Paul showed up with a friend (who kinda looked like McGrath) Introduced as Joey and acted like his movie character and just blew Pauline and the girls away.
Paul is a traveling roadshow by himself and after a couple of hours went into entertainment mode. we had lots of drugs and booze and food and he ended up staying for a couple of days and we were good friends forevermore. Over the years we would get together every once in a while and have a good get together.
Cayle Cherin was Salina. She went off to Hollywood and Dennis Hopper etc. Anyway just after I opened my after-hours club about 5 years later. Cayle showed up on the scene I didn't recognize her to me she was this mysterious beautiful girl who started hanging around the 22 and Grossman's etc.
Then one night she shows up at my bar with some guy. Didn't like him much but ended up playing poker dice with him. I won about $300 off him. it was late and we all had a bunch of drinks into us. When he said he didn't have any money left. I said half-joking I will play you one more game. you win you get your $300 dollars back I win I get your girlfriend. He said ok and we rolled the dice as Cayle looked askance. When I won Cayle went into a bit of a tirade about the whole sexist thing and told the guy to get lost who did he think he was etc. I guess she thought I was a better deal because we dated for a while but even better became really good close friends. For the rest of her life, we were really good buddies and enjoyed our friendship. I skyped her just a few days before she died. I really miss her. She was an extremely brilliant writer, actor, and producer.
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