Alan L Light

Hi, Alan here. I'm two years late to this whatever happened to me discussion, but I am alive and well (as of October 6, 2019, knock wood) and appreciate the nice comments folks have made about me, TBG and the long ago days. It's not that I've been trying to hide, I've just time has moved on and don't think about those days much anymore. I didn't think I was that difficult to find. I'm on facebook and I have had a flickr PRO account with tens of thousands of photos since 2006. https://www.flickr.com/photos/alan-light/albums To clear up a couple of things, I never worked in Hollywood. I photographed a thousand or so celebrities out there courtesy of friends who worked on the awards shows. They got me tickets and/or backstage passes to the Oscars, Emmys, Grammys, movie premieres and such. I was just a guy in a rented tux with a pocket camera, i.e. backstage during the telecast at the 1989 Oscars, standing on the side of the stage 20 feet from Dustin Hoffman as he gave his acceptance speech for winning Best Actor for Rain Man, and I was the first to congratulate him when he finished and walked past me. Wikipedia uses a lot of my celebrity photos because I share them freely, and without charge. It's been decades since I read that interview with me. I had totally forgotten about it. Today it made me cringe, or at least what little I could stand to read did. Why on Earth did I think readers back t hen would be interested? I sold TBG in 1982 to Krause Publications and "retired." Today, at 66, I'm also retired! In between will remain a mystery, except for the celebrity photography I did as a hobby between 1987 and 1997. Thanks everyone. PS Here's a recent photo of me. Alan