Jack Cannon was my best friend. He called me “The Rock” and saw me as confident, socially well-connected and naturally brave.
These are from notes to myself because Jack hated that description of me and yet he loved me because of those attributes. He was my mentor: “No shit, Joanne, what do you want?” The Thomas Hardy quote could have been his: “Never react. Never complain. Get it done and let them howl.”
I live by that advice every day. The Rock.
Joanne dancing at a Be-In at Fairmount Park. Recalls Joanne, “This is my best description of how Jack would remember me – as young, full of life, energetic, crazy, lovable, his buddy, The Rock.”
Writer’s Note: For more on my friendship with Jack Cannon, read my book Real, True Things: A Collection from a Writer’s Life, pages 184-193.
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