John Spencer update

Thanks to Deborah Lipp for linking to my obit. She has her own kind words about the actor here, and also talks about the oddity of being so affected by the death of someone we never knew or even met.

In my case some of it is certainly because I loved "The West Wing" so much. But it was also because Leo, as a character, was such a survivor. As Martin Sheen says of him in one episode, "Leo's made of leather. Leo comes back." I guess I unconciously assumed it was true about the actor, too.

And personally, he was one of those actors I sometimes fantasized about meeting and working with...writing for. I allowed myself the daydream of his playing Ian Colley if I ever got this damn story of mine made.

He was just so good.