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Reel Three

I Know I’ll Never Love This Way Again

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Everyone showed at the openings of the Fey-Way Gallery South of Market.
“Not Fay Wray,” Robert Opel said, “Fey-Way.” Ryan had interviewed
Opel for a freelance spread on the opening of the gallery March 1978 in
California Art Currents. He called the tall, thin gallery owner “the most
naked man in the world.”
Before Opel had moved to the City from El Lay, he had stripped buck-
naked and hid himself inside the scenery of the 1974 Oscar ceremony.
At the very instant when David Niven was introducing Elizabeth Taylor,
Opel broke free of the scenery and streaked past Niven and Taylor. Mil-
lions of startled satellite viewers saw Robert Opel naked for an instant.
No one remembers what stars won the Academy Award that year; but
everyone remembers the man who mooned the whole wide world.
The opening of Opel’s Fey-Way Gallery at 1287 Howard Street,
South of Market, lit the light industrial area with strobes and music and
San Francisco stars. Ryan and Kick attended by special invitation.
Kick had not been hurt in the accident that nearly destroyed the Cor-
vette. With his car undergoing full restoration, he was happier than ever
to be alive. In a note dated a week after the collision, Kick wrote another
in the series of letters each took delight in posting on their refrigerator for
the other.

Ry! My mind continues to overflow with thoughts of you.
Never before have I experienced feelings that I have experienced
since knowing you. Never before have I known total absorbency
without consumption. I think we have something more going
on here than even we first believed. The world sees us, but is the
world ready for us the way we know ourselves to be separately
and together?
Daily we learn love. My own definition of love has certainly
changed in the last two years. Never has it been so exercised.
Never has it been so strong and healthy. I’ve never known love
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