Way back in 1983, I went to Denver's International Film Festival. Knowing Malcolm (and Mary Steenbergen) were going to be there and that I might get to meet him, I brought along six copies of the "O Lucky Man" soundtrack I had collected over the years, knowing the album was out-of-print. He signed one and talked with me for a couple of minutes, including my telling him it was my favorite (he told me it was his favorite of those he'd been in), and then he asked how I had six copies, telling me it was out-of-print. He went on to say when moving to New York he had lost his copy, and that "Every record store in NYC is looking for it for me". I nodded my head and walked away with my 9-month pregnant ex.
Totally spacing out after meeting my favorite actor, and completely forgetting about Mary, who I really liked also, I was about to walk out of the building when the light-bulb finally went off..."Give Him a Copy!" I went back into the theater and waited through the people surrounding him, and offered him a copy. He pulled out his wallet and said, "How much do you want? $300. $400?" I said, "No, it's a present". As he was thanking me, the official event photographer came up to me and said, "That was a really nice thing you did there. I want to get some shots". He cleared everyone out and Malcolm posed with me with his arm on my shoulder while holding the album in his other hand. The photographer gave me his phone number and in a week or so I got 8x10s of every shot he took...eight or nine. For years a picture was online as a part of another forum's picture page, but it's been gone for a decade.
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