Right now, I am currently finishing up my book and trying to put together a tribute to those male porn actors who died during the past year. While working on both projects, a came across a photograph of my old friend Andy Mantegna. At the time, in my mind, I was lambasting the porn industry for unceremoniously burying their dead, and then moving on to the next big star, without a tear ever being shed. When I saw the picture of Andy, I too had almost forgotten him. When he died, by suicide, in 1996, like the porn industry, I was equally jaded and comatose. Now, I remember him as a kind man; humble, caring, but also somehow always sad. God bless you Andy. You are missed.
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