Mr. Hill: Thank you for this elegant and rich piece. About the Black Filmmakers' Hall of Fame, I'm wondering if you ran across Mr. Robert Rainey, an attorney who lived in Oakland and acted as a kind of archivist to the Hall of Fame group. I was the Director of the Oakland School for the Arts in 2007 when Mr. Rainey visited me. We struck up a friendship and we had a few gallery-type shows where we hung Mr. Rainey's extensive collection of photographs and memorabilia. It is a remarkable story and they were a pioneering group of people. Mr. Rainey has passed on, I believe, but knowing him was a sheer joy. 'White people weren't hiring black lawyers in my day, and black folk didn't have much money, but I scratched out a living,' he told me. He loved being behind the scenes with the great filmmakers, and I'm sure he appreciated a journalist of your caliber. I'm on the Board of the San Francisco African-American Shakespeare Company at the present time, a group with whom James Earl Jones would have been a perfect fit. Rest in peace to one of our greats. If I'm not mistaken, wasn't he the Voice of God in a TV spot? Another perfect fit.