Shortly before The Temple site went missing, Jolie alerted me to a curious short little movie that featured REG walking down a street in his Larry Lefferts persona. Obviously it was an opportune moment for a person who just happened to have a movie camera with them at the time and who also knew who REG was, but was there more to it than that?

I did a bit of sleuthing and managed to find an email address belonging to the “owner” of the film and quickly sent an email to them requesting permission to use the clip on the site. I also asked them for a little background to help set it up. The next day I received an email from Monica Bretherton telling me how it all came about and giving me the go ahead to use the clip on The Temple.

The footage is digitized from a VHS dub of a HI-8 home transfer and was compressed to run as a flash film, so the quality isn’t great. However it’s still pretty cool to see Richard in “costume”. Anyway to see the clip and read Monica’s explanation, just click here.

I also have a short passage from an article about Steve Martin which appeared in The Observer a few years ago. It describes what happened when he first met Richard. You can read that here.